ehyde,
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Starting a reading thread for #CultivatingInC

So far, this novel is taking a much more realistic approach to AI than Happy Doomsday 🤣

villainousfriend,
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@ehyde I read the carrd and now this, and I’m already sold.

ehyde,
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@villainousfriend oh I didn't know there was a carrd! Anyway yes I'm not very far but enjoying it so far!

villainousfriend,
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@ehyde it’s here, not really more details than the NU page: https://ccultivation.carrd.co/

ehyde,
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The first four chapters of this have a really excellent translation. After that... well, it's not the worst I've read. But I do wish the other translator had continued.

ehyde,
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The mc having to ask his foreign student friend for help reading this classical chinese cultivation manual #CultivatingInC

ehyde,
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Lin Xun is tasked with gaining the approval of three (3) elders and gears himself up for the terrifying challenge of ... using emojis like an old person #CultivatingInC

ehyde,
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I am going to have to ask someone else how this book is from the pov of a reader who is a programmer, I'm just here with my fiber arts degree like "yay I love science fiction" 😆 #CultivatingInC

ehyde,
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Romance is NOT at the forefront of this novel so far, which is fine (and not unexpected, given this is by the author of Little Mushroom).

There's two storylines--Lin Xun's cultivation and Lin Xun's startup--and they're clearly connected somehow but right now they're mostly happening separately, and currently the cultivation story is taking the forefront while the ml is more on the startup side of things. #CultivatingInC

geraineon,
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@ehyde i am very tempted to just ditch my resolution to read a non-danmei after i am done with sendoff

18+ ehyde,
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Not ruling out the possibility that they're in the matrix

ehyde,
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Mentally referred to Lin Xun as a "programmer trying to get funding for his AI startup" and immediately took ten points of psychic damage.

ehyde,
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I do have to say I'm hoping the "my leet hacker skillz make me totally op" arc will be over soon. I was led to believe there's more to the book than that.

ehyde,
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The practicalities of a modern cultivation setting #CultivatingInC

villainousfriend,
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@ehyde until I read the book and find out differently, I’m choosing to believe the friend is @Forestofglory

Forestofglory,
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@villainousfriend @ehyde Culivation manuals are hard mode! It gets very metaphorical and confusing very fast!

geraineon,
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@ehyde written by a data scientist by day probably 😂

ehyde,
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@geraineon it's by the author of Little Mushroom so I figure even the non realistic scifi pieces will be well thought out

geraineon,
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@ehyde ah I really should read Little Mushroom! I keep forgetting it exists. Haha. But I've heard so much good things about it

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