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arolihas · 2022-07-14 15:12:55

Reminds me a lot of Beware the Man of One Study by Scott Alexander

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/BQBqPowfxjvoee8jw/p/ythFNoiAotjv...

smoyer | karma 8994 | avg karma 2.51 · | 2020-11-24 16:12:36+00:00

Please link the reference here ... this sounds like a book I'd definitely want to read (though if sounds somehow familiar).

mentat | karma 2065 | avg karma 2.04 · | 2015-05-18 19:32:30+00:00

Reminds me of The Calorie Man which is quite good if disturbing.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7805265-the-calorie-man

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nitrogen | karma 22058 | avg karma 2.02 · | 2017-01-14 00:19:32+00:00

Very vaguely similar to the novel Terminal Man by Michael Crichton.

hackandthink | karma 1800 | avg karma 2.1 · | 2024-03-07 18:11:01

Reminds me of a great novel by David Peace:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB84

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AdeptusAquinas | karma 1222 | avg karma 3.34 · | 2015-04-22 21:56:51

Reminds me of 'The Nightwatch' by James Mickens (PDF): http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/mickens/thenightw...

peteradio | karma 2428 | avg karma 0.85 · | 2020-09-16 10:01:02

I would love to read some fiction where a study such as this leads to discovery that people are encountering the same concrete entity(ies).

dbrgn | karma 3910 | avg karma 5.16 · | 2016-09-19 15:42:29+00:00

Was reminded of this by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12528144.

Book website is here: http://pedrokroger.net/mfgan/ I read it some time ago and liked it.

I have no affiliation with the author :)

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drivers99 | karma 1918 | avg karma 2.32 · | 2020-08-28 19:19:52+00:00

I thought that sounded familiar. I got the hardcover from a dollar store (for a dollar vs $27 cover price, first printing; I guess they made too many copies?). I'll have to give it a read.

CydeWeys | karma 28315 | avg karma 3.91 · | 2019-06-02 13:39:13+00:00

This has been a plot of quite a few novels, so I'm struggling to come up with that exact one (if I've even read it). Off the top of my head, Children of Men is similar.