@ NickC:

I’m adding that to my to-read list.

@ gogi-goji:

Heh, that app is a bit arbitrary. I tried couple of my posts and I got different writers:

All the posts that were about internet or video games gave me Cory Doctorov.

My post about space exploration gave me Douglass Adams.

It’s like the analyzer looks for keywords and topics and matches them to particular writers rather than trying to match the writing style.

I was playing around with with a little web app called I Write Like, which apparently uses some kind of algorithm to compare your writing to the works of famous authors. I found it somewhat ironic that with this blog post, you apparently write like Isaac Asimov.

Just FYI, Stephen M. Baxter explores this very question in his Manifold series, in Time if I remember correctly.

Nick

Wow, the readability was a great tip! Thanks a lot!

Will read Asimov later today.

That story is a reminder that we are all stuck in an infinite loop.

The end is nigh!

I thought about this (and haven’t stopped doing so) since I finished reading Stephen Hawking’s first vulgarisation book, 20 years ago. The big crunch idea is interesting, from an intellectual point of view. But to answer the issue, if we can actually reverse entropy at any point in our future history as a specie, we will have actually become gods for all practical purposes. God = a being which can let entropy happen or reverse it.

That is a great story, thanks for reminding me.