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There was another story on the same site [1] that involves thermodynamics and signal processing. I don't think I've seen such technical sci-fi before. Anybody else have more examples to share?

[1]: https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/CSC218-Software-Precogna...

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Not quite to the same level of technical complexity, but this short story about the horrors of mind upload is formatted like a future-Wikipedia article [0]. qntm, its author, is a great source of... outsider art science fiction? His written work feels similar to the movie Primer, which was created by engineers without much formal training in filmmaking; namely, it's impressive and imaginative and well-polished, but obviously without the mien and certain stylistic elements of those who learned the "rules" of the medium by rote rather than derivation and imitation.

[0] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

This story is one of the most horrifying things ever. I’d rather die than get mind-uploaded into a VC-backed immortality machine.

(Of course it helps that I believe that there’s an afterlife - but even if I didn’t, I’m likely to make the same choice)

Greg Egan is an extreme example of math in hard sci-fi. https://www.gregegan.net/ORTHOGONAL/ORTHOGONAL.html

72 Letters by Ted Chiang is a great short story with a well-developed premise. Maybe not people's typical idea of hard sci-fi, but as a fan of the genre I really enjoyed it. One of his stories became the movie Arrival.

Peter Watts is another author whose work I really enjoy. The slideshow you linked reminds me of a fictional presentation he used to have on his website on vampire biology. Can't find it though.

This should be the page, but it requires a Flash plugin (so doesn't work for me): https://rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm

Here it is as a pdf: https://rifters.com/real/shorts/VampireDomestication.pdf

Wow! Thank you for finding that.

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