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The seam through the center of things

34 pointsby surprisetalklast Thursday at 8:13 PM5 commentsview on HN

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selfsimilartoday at 6:45 PM

I know nothing about this author, but this reads to me a lot like late Philip K Dick but without the "what is real" element. After his religious event in 1974, he wrote some real bangers - A Scanner Darkly, Valis, The Divine Invasion - alongside his religious exegesis. This feels a bit like an alternate timeline where PKD saw even more drugs as the way to chase this feeling, but somehow came out the other side.

magneticnorthtoday at 6:04 PM

I really enjoy well-written accounts of experiences very different from anything I've encountered in my own life.

I enjoyed the writing in this a lot; I'll check out the book.

zabzonktoday at 5:49 PM

Drivel. I would rather read clanker nonsense than this. And if it turns out that this is clanker generated, then I,m disappointed in the LLM.

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kubbtoday at 5:58 PM

For me, this text fails the "bridge-building" test of communication. Because it talks about a subjective experience inaccessible to anyone else than the author, it's hard to engage with it.

So I have to wonder who is it for? The author herself? Why publish and share it then?