Greg Bear

The range of potential observations that we can make about the universe is limited by the fact that the observations can only happen in a universe capable of developing life that is intelligent in the first place.

Greg Bear in Blood Music seems to be using the Strong Anthropic Principle, which essentially says that the universe is in some sense compelled to eventually have consciousness emerge.

and essentially, observers are necessary to bring the universe into being.

In blood music, the new sites and assimilated humans are forced to expand beyond normal space and into a realm of pure consciousness.

Then came the audiobooks, which is where his attention tuned into something more cameo work.

Greg Bear's novel, Halo Primordium, came out from Tor on January 3rd, 2012, with a Macmillan audio edition alongside it.

And the book was written as Sparks' own recounting of his past.

Uh, that made Tim, you know, the natural narrator.

Yeah, like a government against intelligence.

Greg, Greg, Greg Bear in some of his novels wrote about it.

If folks are interested in exploring what a Prohibition-era, you know, sort of a supervisory state that doesn't want GPUs a- as recognized as constituted to live in, go read, I think it's Slash or Slant, one of those, by Greg Bear.

Yeah, I think it's very interesting here, right? Like, obviously any technology that extends human capability can be dangerous, right? Because it's a general purpose technology.

You know, language models are few-shot learners.

George had talked about that previously over the years.

So, you know, this was not Greg Bear taking a shot in the dark at what might happen.

We had a general idea of what was going to happen.

It's not the exact details of it.

But the thing is, when this came out, Qui-Gon was the first Jedi we saw die who didn't vanish.

All others had.

So I think that's what Greg Bear was kind of playing on.

He was going on the little we knew about that concept.

Well, it's like that with anything.

I mean, like when we did, um, when we were doing, and this is not even on the writing side, but like, you know, working with like people like, uh, you know, Hans Jensen, like those kinds of folks for like when they, when, uh, who did all the star Wars cutaways that like were books that we grew up with, but then having them work on stuff like war fleet, you know, like it was, you know, that's, that's, really rad uh as well i mean greg bear would have been on that list uh had he not already done stuff with us and i mean greg bear stuff inspires a whole bunch of the stuff that alex and i write especially since we are both just again addicted to the weird and wild alien esoteric you know, Lovecraftian kind of like elements.

Like that's my, my really like favorite kind of stuff.

And Alex, I know loves that, that too.