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mircea_popescu: esthlos Mocky either of you ever read the luminous rewrite ?
mircea_popescu: you recall the wankery i took out of luminous in its ascension towards superluminous, with the "toxic blood" that then got retconned into "platonic paramour for some reason got the same brand so i can keep hoping because she cares about this but there's no cuckolding undertone here" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because in a large pile of people who did not perceive a problem with "women are dumb because they are women" a speck of "this is not so" emerged. this is altogether very much a http://trilema.com/2017/resplenduminous/ / luminous scenario.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the context is the earlier rewrite of luminous, the sf story. you know it ?
mircea_popescu: www.scribd.com/doc/86728044/Greg-Egan-Luminous redirects to some bulslhit advertising. because that's why they EVEN DO this.
a111: 11 results for "luminous", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=luminous
asciilifeform: !#s luminous
deedbot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite_(Nadar) << Hermaphrodite (Nadar) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/contents/fra/_photographer_nadar_hermaphrodite_01/ << Nadar: Hermaphrodite | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16490032 << Early photo-illustration of a hermaphrodite by the French ...
ben_vulpes: http://news.mit.edu/2016/nanophotonic-incandescent-light-bulbs-0111 << luminous efficiency is a reprehensible scam
assbot: Eizo ColorEdge CG301W vs. The Apple 30 - Luminous Landscape ... ( http://bit.ly/1Of6hCL )
pete_dushenski: https://luminous-landscape.com/eizo-coloredge-cg301w-vs-the-apple-30/ << "And I cannot emphasize enough what a difference it makes to be able to sit in front of a display for many hours without experiencing the typical eye strain and user fatigue." << hm. photographer/phd physicist who switched from acd to eizo.
trinque: luminous is sitting a few feet away
mircea_popescu: And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody. "Excuse me-" she said, and she began again, making her voice absolutely uncompetitive.
asciilifeform: Duffer1: see if you can get a hold of Egan's short works collections, 'Luminous' and 'Axiomatic.'
ozbot: BookReader - Greg Egan - Luminous (2) (Egan Greg)
ozbot: Greg Egan - Luminous
asciilifeform: http://www.scribd.com/doc/86728044/Greg-Egan-Luminous
asciilifeform: greg egan, 'luminous', if i recall.