Kimberly T’s Reviews > Stories of Your Life and Others > Status Update

“The Semiotech warriors believe that Wyatt/Hayes has developed new software capable of fine tuning paralinguistic cues in order to maximize the emotional response evoked in viewers.”

Hey nice, generative AI?

“This debate isn’t just about commercials and cosmetics, it’s about determining what’s the appropriate relationship between the mind and the body. Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? That, you have to agree, is a profound question.”

“Every on this issue up the same results: looks help people get ahead. We can’t help but think of good looking people as more competent, more honest, more deserving of others. None of it’s true, but their looks still give us that impression. Calli doesn’t blind you to anything: beauty is what blinds you. Calli lets you see.”

“A calliagnosic perceives faces perfectly well; he or she simply doesn’t experience any aesthetic reaction to those differences. You experience the operation of that circuitry as the feeling that a person is beautiful, or ugly, or somewhere in between. By blocking the neutral pathways dedicated to evaluating those features, we can induce calliagnosia.”

Ok I sort of get it? The great equalizer?

Hell is the Absence of God is so wild. I have to think hard on this one and what Neil, Janice, and Ethan got from the visitation from the angel.

“For Neil the mystery was solved because he understood that everything in life is love, even pain, especially pain. So minutes later, when Neil finally bled to death, he was truly worthy of salvation.

And God sent him to Hell anyway.”

Oh my god.

“Once we have human reproduction under control, we will have a means of preventing the poor from having such large families as so many of them persist in having right now.”

Oh so it’s eugenics. It’s always eugenics

Okay so the epithets / special words used to animate and automate the Golems is kinda fucked up thinking about the sexual epithets used to create… nonhuman subclass species for sex work. Oh god I see it now, they’re gonna animate the automatons to be the slave class

It’s IVF! Robert being really gung ho about improving conditions for the working class is really sweet though. He’s got a mission, even if seemingly the end of the human population is incoming.

No wait they’re doing in vitro fertilization with names? What the hell