## [RT] [HSF] "Understand", short audiostory in 4 parts about emerging super intelligence.

* Author: u/vikingzoe *
* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/3uefiw/rt_hsf_understand_short_audiostory_in_4_parts/
* Score: 20

* Created: 2015-11-26T22:52:22

### Post:

Audio version of the early 90's award-winning short story by Ted Chiang. It's about an hour in total and really really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLsGfN-F2rs



### Comments:

> **u/SvalbardCaretaker** [+5]  *Mouse Army* (10 hours later)
> 
> For everyone who enjoys Chiangs writing, here is a list of freely available online fiction by him: http://freesfonline.de/authors/Ted_Chiang.html

>> **u/Empiricist_or_not** [+3]  *Aspiring polite Hegemonizing swarm* (19 hours later)
>> 
>> I liked it.  Didn't care for the ending though.

>> **u/philh** [+2]  (15 hours later)
>> 
>> Oh neat, I haven't read all of that. Thanks!
>> 
>> *The Merchant and the Alchemists Gate* has been taken down though.

> **u/None** [+2]  (3 hours later)
> 
> I like the story, and I like the reading too. Rashan Stone, the narrator, is very, very good at sounding smugly detached.

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