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Rudy Rucker
American
Scientist
Born:
Mar 22
,
1946
Book
Computation
Science
Think
World
You
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I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
Rudy Rucker
Book
Better
Predict
Like
Going
Happen
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Rudy Rucker
Everyone
Fact
Does
Get
Hard
Published
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Rudy Rucker
Good
You
Think
Medium
Books
Net
Lightweight
Around
Inexpensive
However
Very
Bang
Really
Should
Present
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
Rudy Rucker
You
Book
Money
Strategy
Enough
Out
Distribution
More
Putting
Make
Print
Any
Deemed
Electronic
Publishing
Hardly
Profitable
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
Rudy Rucker
Smart
Say
System
Plug
Feel
Does
How
Times
Person
Million
Million Times
Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Rudy Rucker
Myself
Lately
Everything
Computation
Been
Convince
Working
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Rudy Rucker
Life
You
Wonderful
Think
Final
Final Answer
Kind
About
Having
Computation
Clear
Abundant
Particularly
Answer
Halt
Going
Quite
Anything
Your
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
Rudy Rucker
Science
Natural
Computer Science
Tell
Kinds
About
Computation
Computer
Study
Suppose
Occur
Effect
Natural Phenomena
Us
Many
Phenomena
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
Rudy Rucker
Science
Shortcuts
Finding
About
Traditional
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
Rudy Rucker
Science
Natural
See
Could
Writer
Fail
Principle
Science Fiction
Wonder
Being
Fiction
Fiction Writer
Now
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