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The Lifecycle of Software Objects
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Last discussed Nov 5, 2026
A novella by Ted Chiang about digital beings called digients and the people who raise them.
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Quinten Farmer · Nov 5, 2026
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Praised: Depicts digital beings that can be embodied physically on a transient basis
"You already alluded to The Lifecycle of Software Objects, which certainly has a dystopian element to how that story unfolds. People should go read it. One thing I really liked in his representation of that idea was that the digients were fundament..."
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