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Review: "There is no Antimemetics Division"
- This book has sitting on my desk for what feels like years (it has) finally read it
- A fascinating idea ("antimemetics"), such a fun and unique premise and idea. That is easy to grasp, but has far reaching consequences once you start thinking about the downstream consequences of this idea.
- The story is a bit fragmented, but acts as a great vehicle for demonstrating the idea, and complex, and requires some investigation and thinking to get it, but once you get it the story is relatively straightforward. Good characters, and fun.
- Rich, amazing world building around it as well, especially because SCP makes for a great backdrop / and world to begin with.
- Also qntm’s background in SCP makes it easy / and natural leading into this as he started as a contributor to SCP and was writing this in fragments to begin with
- Was interested and thought the idea of how Mnestics work (enhance or protect memory) vs Amnestics (delete memory) works was particularly fascinating.
- Halfway through the book, I realized it was about how humans would live and fight mythical creatures that attack memory, and preserve memory, and if we could protect / add / delete memory like we do with computers, with humans, what does that mean?
- It made my start thinking about maybe in the longer run software / AI will also have to handle memory in the future, and how agentic memory is handled? It’s like events, that have happened, treating them purely as information, and that humans like ideas that can be forgotten, and memories can be wiped.
- It reminded me of @keikreutler and the memory group, for some reason
- Also this is a story about memory
- The part where Adam Wheeler loses his memory, and the use of censoring out, was jarring experience for me. Absolutely terrifying, and I’ve never seen that done in writing before. Technology and sci-fi and using horror, but still it’s about forgetting. Living in a world, where you can forget, and you can share an idea, fully understand it, then it resists being known.
- Fun. It vibes really well. It really has a unique premise and core idea that the book revolves around overall. Was pleasantly surprised 3 replies
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