Hacker News Reader

Comment by idbehold | Hacker News Reader

You can still read it for free according to the author: https://qntm.org/scp

My favorite one from qntm is probably Miguel Acevedo [1]. It is pretty spot on wrt. several topics related to the current AI boom ; for instance the licensing topic.

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

MMAcevedo, the TV series Pantheon, and the play The Summerland Project are all excellent treatments of the topic.

If you enjoyed any one of those three, then I recommend the others.

That's one of those ones that really sticks with you. First time I read it I had to sit alone and just think for quite a while afterward.

It's like four pages and it lays out the fiction better than many 400-page novels or entire films dealing with similar subject matters have, IMO.

I just completed the work and have to agree with you.

My timing is poor. Should have taken that "sit alone" part more seriously. I have an intense need to do just that!

I can give myself some time. Unlikely to be enough.

I'll wait for the re-release regardless. No need to jump through any hoops to get it on my Kindle plus the author gets paid for their work. Plus, I imagine it'll benefit from the work of an editor.

You may want to read both, they are going to be pretty different. For starters, AIUI the new published version is not going to be an SCP story, probably because of rights issues. I assume it will be "SCP with the serial numbers filed off", but we won't know for sure until it comes out. I'd read the existing one and then decide if you like it enough that you want to preorder the new one.

“SCP is the the serial numbers filed off” is sort of a funny concept. Conventionally each SCP story is considered to exist within its own canon and the author is able to pick-and-choose which other stories “exist” from its point of view, right? So there are n SCP continuities, and after the book is published there will be n+1, but that +1 is special for copyright reasons, haha.

SCP is CC-SA-BY anyway, so you can download it from torrent, modify it, resell it, if you want to[0]. It's basically GPL, so you can do that with anything that has any relation to an SCP (derivative of a derivative of a derivative)

[0] : https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/licensing-guide

No you cannot. There is no such book.

The author's page links to the original SCP Wiki page, where you can read it in parts, as it was being created. It's not a straight book download, but you can think of each red link as a chapter.

Beware: SCP is as enthralling as TV Tropes.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub

404 not found

The book exists. You just can't remember it.

What book?

Which link? Because the one I posted works, and it says:

> Suggested reading order is from top to bottom. For those wishing to read the book There Is No Antimemetics Division, begin with "SCP-055" and finish with "Champions of Nothing."

Checked every one of those links, which also work. I can't understand why are you... wait, what were we talking about?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com