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I'm no fan of Greg Egan's fiction but I am a fan of him pissing of rats:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EbqJfCz9qvfptNbCQ/an-angry-review-of-greg-egan-s-didicosm
Link to short story: https://www.gregegan.net/DIDICOSM/Complete/Didicosm.html
also
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/hx5EkHFH5hGzngZDs/comment-on-death-and-the-gorgon (shared in a comment to the above)
Here's the short story that pissed Zack off: https://asimovs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DeathGorgon_Egan.pdf
Edit I found the time to read Didicosm and while it suffers from an Eganesque infodump (with diagrams!) it's not nearly as bad as the LWers are wittering on about. Part of me thinks they're mad because the main scientists are all women while the main dude is a stable, well-adjusted partner in the relationship.
I'm a huge fan of Greg Egan's fiction and a huge fan of him pissing off the rats. He's been explicitly needling them and making fun of them in his fiction for over a decade. Making calm contradictions against them for over two decades, after noticing weirdos being fans of his.
He showed up at my blog to talk math back in the ancient days when I had a comment section. And he's active on Mastodon a fair bit.
yeah he rules
Rat reading a book that makes fun of AI doom in passing:
Me, a trans woman immigrant:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mel-gibson-talking-to-bloody-jesus