alt Hacker News> Not long before I arrived in the Bay Area, I’d been involved in a minor but intense dispute with the rationalist community over a piece of fiction I’d written that I’d failed to properly label as fiction
Anyone familiar with what work this is referring to?
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eigencoder • today at 7:25 PM
I think it's this one: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-law-that-can-be-named-is...
But in general, Sam Kriss tends to weave fiction and nonfiction together in his writing.
ianmcgowan • today at 6:47 PM
Probably the burning man essay, which is one of the best things I've ever read online.
https://open.substack.com/pub/samkriss/p/numb-at-burning-man
devinplatt • today at 6:15 PM
Sounds self-referencial
This one IIRC: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-law-that-can-be-named-is... He writes about it here, a little: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/against-truth
In general long meandering semi-factual pieces like this, with odd historical excursions, are one of his things and I don't know anyone else that does it quite the same. (Hmm... oddly enough Scott Alexander, who he cites here, also does some similarly Borgesian stuff, but with a different bent.) One of my favorite writers and I recommend pretty much everything he's done since the early 2010s.