Notes
1
In Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence, ed. Benjamin Bratton, Anna Greenspan, and Bogna Konior (Urbanomic, forthcoming 2024).
2
I’m indebted to scholar Wang Hongzhe for this quote.
3
Cixin Liu, “The Universe Flickers,” excerpt from The Three-Body Problem, tor.com, September 23, 2014 →. The author’s Western publishers often render his name as “Cixin Liu”—surname second, rather than the Chinese convention of putting the surname first.
4
Liu, “The Universe Flickers.”
5
Konior, “Dark Forest Theory.”
6
Robert E. Harrist Jr., The Landscape of Words (University of Washington Press, 2008), 217.
7
Harrist Jr., Landscape of Words, 13.
8
Harrist Jr., Landscape of Words, 216.
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