Truth of Fact, Truth of Fiction: Is Ted Chiang a Luddite?
Update: 2025-05-21
Description
This week we tackle another short story by Ted Chiang: From his 2019 Exhalation collection Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling.
Luddism and cognitive tool breakthroughs: we go through the pros and cons. Rich wants to go to the moon. We're not sure how much of a luddite, or dare we say relativist, we should make Chiang out to be.
Fallible memories: just how bad are our memories? Benny and Rich have opposing intuitions,
Special guest episode coming soon!
CHAPTERS
- (00:00:00 ) Summary
- (00:00:00 ) Chiang, a luddite?
- (00:00:00 ) Founding myths
- (00:00:00 ) Cognitive tools
- (00:00:00 ) Fallible memories
- (00:00:00 ) Final thoughts
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