Truth of Fact, Truth of Fiction: Is Ted Chiang a Luddite?

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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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