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Tag: Exhalation

  • Exhalation: Transformative Experience and AI

    Ted Chiang’s Exhalation is one of the best collections of short science fiction that you can find. It also happens to have several stories directly concerned with transformative experience and decision-making. That’s unusual. Most short science fiction stories are idea driven. They take a concept and run with it. In Exhalation,  for example, Chiang writes…