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Greg Egan is fairly active on Mastodon. You can follow along at https://mathstodon.xyz/@gregeganSF

Oh cool! That's a vote for getting on Mastodon...

I wish he would show his face and do interviews. He's rather obsessed with Google linking him to wrong faces. I am curious to know what he looks like, his interests, background, etc

I think Lock-Pick Lawyer's views on this are germane (paraphrasing):

>>> I would show my face or give my name as there are many thousands of normal people to whom that would make an interesting or grounding moment, but it only takes one crazy nut-job to ruin your whole year, and if there is one thing common in the internet, it's crazy nut-jobs

I understand that viewpoint but I would think that someone as niche as him would go unnoticed in most places

That’s not the point. The problem is the nut job who is dedicated to tracking you down.

Why do you/he think that some nutjob would try to track him down? It's not like that's the case with many writers is it? I don't think Arthur Clark, Asimov or even more contemporaries like Liu or Cixin had nutjobs after them

It is a problem. Read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22280753

Not me. And I would bet no AI would be able to generate a face that resembles Greg Egan. :-)

We would never be able to tell anyway

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