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S. Spencer Baker

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S. Spencer Baker (Steve) was born in September 1956 in Nottingham, England. He fled formal education and family at 17 and refused to ever return to either. He spent many years exploiting the intellectual property of others, first by setting up an indie record label which failed, and then a management company that struggled for far too long before finally finding international success and then a design, film and advertising company which, after a shaky start, thrived in Europe, the US, and Japan. He woke up one morning in Tokyo and remembered that his childhood dream was to write Science Fiction.

Ten years later, Steve published his first novel Slabscape: Reset. The novel is a web-back; a work of fiction which is published in printed as well
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S. Spencer Baker Recently, I've been splitting my year between Tokyo, Japan and West Cork, Ireland. I'm trying to find enough concentrated time to finish my third book…moreRecently, I've been splitting my year between Tokyo, Japan and West Cork, Ireland. I'm trying to find enough concentrated time to finish my third book. Almost done.(less)
S. Spencer Baker I use a jackhammer to reduce it to writer's rubble.

But what is writer's block? If it's lack of ideas then that's not a problem. Ideas form in shower-h…more
I use a jackhammer to reduce it to writer's rubble.

But what is writer's block? If it's lack of ideas then that's not a problem. Ideas form in shower-heads.

If it's lack of confidence and self-questioning, then I deal with it the way any sane person does: with copious amounts of alcohol, tears, cursing, skull-pounding, denial, pretence and psychotherapy. Is there another way?(less)
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Proposal: Evolutionary Oversight Architecture (Tri-Council & Mind Manager)

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To eliminate catastrophic logical inversions and semantic failures in large language models by replacing single-stream word prediction with a multi-layered, human-filtered verification framework.
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“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’

‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of t
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“Laughter is the antidote to existential pain”
S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset

“mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination”
S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset

“If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it”
S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset

“The key to writing is concentration, not inspiration. It requires deep attention to your characters, to the world they live in, and to the story you have to tell.”
Salman Rushdie

“If you think fate is fickle, try tempting it”
S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset

“Laughter is the antidote to existential pain”
S. Spencer Baker, Slabscape: Reset

“Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.”
Woody Allen

“You are the man. You have to take your dignity and self respect to the pawnbrokers.”
David Mitchell, Number9Dream

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Want to explore different genres? Each month we pick a different Literary book, to read and discuss. Books are picked by members via a poll.
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