June 19, 2026

IDSG Bonus 47 Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

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Cat Mara · June 19, 2026

Have you read the short story “Poor Superman” by Fritz Leiber? It could be a good candidate for an episode, being an exquisitely thorough skewering of “I am very smart” types like Musk and his ilk. (Leiber himself was something of an outsider in the SF milieu of the 50s, being the child of actors and an actor himself, unlike STEMlords like Heinlein and Asimov, and I suspect he had his run-ins with the “I am very smart” groups of the time, like the Futurians)