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		_dain_ on Feb 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Permutation City (1994) Novella, free to read: The Epiphany of Gliese 581 https://borretti.me/fiction/eog581 >A linguist, a chemist, and a comparative psychologist explore the ruins of a dead superintelligence.

jz391 on Feb 11, 2024 [–]

Excellent Sci-Fi yarn, with nostalgic references. I particularly liked the VAX-11 and LISP reference ("ideograms in a formal language full of parentheses")

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