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23 Jul 2025 Conversations with Tyler Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities
“I think there were four or five stories in the sequence that are amazing. A number of the others quite seem flat to me.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 23 Jul 2025
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…Would you say I, Robot is among the best of it? Given that I haven’t read any of the rest. I think there were four or five stories in the sequence that are amazing. A number of the others quite seem flat to me. In the aggregate, it’s one of the most important books and most influential books of its century, as we’re seeing now in 2025 with AI. Aren’t we? I think what grabbed me when I was younger was a combination of that conceptual grasp. The three laws of robotics are so astoundingly thought through and precise. I think when I was very young, that conceptual framework grabbed me. Then the fact that there’s a woman at the heart of it, which isn’t always the case in sci-fi. Watching that progression through the stories, with that sense that nothing was inevitable but one thing was leading to the next. I think you might have put your finger on exactly why I love that book and how it links to the work I do now.…
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