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To put it shortly: there's a computer in the book, that can simulate identical computer inside itself, only many many order of magnitudes *FASTER* that the original computer. Well, for one, if such a universe exists, and is 100% accurate, it means the computer inside it should exist as well, as much as all events that lead to its creation, making it an infinite loop, with the fast-forward feature pretty much meaning that every loop will be faster and faster, until the speed of simulation becomes infinite.
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So much coming out of this fact that I couldn't stop thinking about it throughout the book, and this idea never lives up to its full potential, never going deeper than considering witnessing Jesus crucifixion or visiting one or two planets, and something else eye-rolling, that is a spoiler. It just violates the very basic laws of logic. It's such a massive plot hole that it's impossible to keep the suspension of disbelief. Having quite a few plot holes, the biggest one undoubtedly is a computer of a size of no more than a building, that could simulate the entire universe 100% identical to the external one, starting from the Big Bang, and do so with incredible speed, fast-forwarding 14 billions years of creation in a matter of weeks.
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I mean, a good story shouldn't tell the reader how to feel and what to ask, it should *make* them feel it and ask it themselves via the means of narration.īut the biggest disappointment for me personally was the lack of hard science, and solid logic behind the story. These 'deep' dilemmas are spoon-fed to the reader.
"Love is the ultimate manifestation of the Universe" - a human would answer. "Would you kill in the name of Love?" the incredibly powerful AI asks a human at some point, as if with it's power it couldn't analyze the entirety of the human history and make a perfect model of human behavior and accurately predict what exactly people can do in the name of love, as well as other feelings such as greed, envy, lust, hunger for power etc.
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The rest fall so much short of what I expected! The book takes itself very seriously, and has this vibe of sad melancholy raising very 'deep' questions on pretty much every page, revolving around religion, technology augmentation, in a clichéd dystopian society that, as genre demands, depicted in a way that you don't really want to live in, and (oh my goodness please NOOO) human feelings and love, that the AI tries to understand in a series of cheesy dialog. Too bad it all takes around 5% of the book. Accurate scientific descriptions of dying stars and the universe evolution are beautiful and captivating, and the brief stories about scientists in pursuit of extraterrestrial life are also very unusual and exactly what I was looking for.
And to some extent you can feel it in his book. Being a John's subscriber on YouTube I decided to give it a go because unlike most sci-fi writers he seems to be really into hard science and cosmology. Accurate scientific descriptions of dying stars and the universe evolution are beautiful and captivating, and the brief stories about scientists in pursuit of extraterrestrial life ar I don't really know if it's fair to write a critical review just because I expected something completely different. I don't really know if it's fair to write a critical review just because I expected something completely different.
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