StalinStan [none/use name]

I am on that list like eight times especially with my first name and diffrent spellings of swear words for a last name

We say every scifi dystopia is better than our world because our world sucks so bad not because the dystopia is cool

You won’t be happy when you find out, I am pretty sure.

1. ASMR is platonic BDSM. Our generation had jackasss for platonic BDSM. Theirs is more based on comfort and sensory play.

It skipped our generations due to IP laws but that was how most the legends of old came to be I am pretty sure. " no, our hero was raised by wolves and built this city himself"

Do you mean you don’t get why they like it or don’t feel the vibe cause it isn’t hard to explain.

I feel like I am keeping up well with the younger generation. A sometimes I feel weird about it like I should stop liking new music at some point but I haven’t yet.

I have a small.social network but it would definitely not meet my human interaction needs without the website here. I don’t know of any other places on thr internet with anything like this quality of vibe so it would be a serious blow for my mental health to lose it for sure.

At one point they go to planet that recreates a 1800s England and there a scene about how unions ruin everything. Also some weird sexual violence so the politics are rough. I seems to me the book isn’t worth going back to but if you feel different I’d hear your assessment.

Universalists seem chill but I don’t hear about them doing big moves. Like, I have been to meetings of cool groups in their space, which is nice. Back when it was a thing I went to a few secular humanist meetings there. It was a funny juxtaposition

Is a heckin’ better world possible besite? Nope, we are just smol beans and have to participate in neoliberal capitalism bestie

That is a plot point in one if the dune books if I recall. I think they actually get close to it in some of the latter termination films before they pull back as well.

In the way of old sci-fi it was pro monarchy, specifically anti union, libertarian, somewhat objectivist. Pro collectivist insofar as it allowed for orgies. So just a mess all over.

I remember the royal family was specifically referenced as trustworthy because they were too rich to bribe. Which is the most powerful reddit brained idea.

The princess who has literally magic knowledge directly from the gods is a dick to nomadic horse archers. She gets her shit wrecked as would be expected in that scenario. Then some immortal demon twink has to do war crimes

Reality disfunction was hornt? Why don’t I remember that. Weird. Oh wait. I looked it up. I fell off that one. Wasn’t it terrible politically?

Yeah, synthesis really was where it was at with that one. It is a really lazy trope. I wanna be more about it than it deserves but you are right. Like, if we made an actual intelligent AGI it would be horror at what we are doing and try to stop us. Like, blowing up the pentagon and the Whitehouse would be acts of unmitigated moral good you know. However most everyone would be upset about it. So I see the trope being the pale imitation of something actually interesting and it scrapes at the back of my brain

Vanguard party. “We are straying off topic, let’s let another conrade have a turn to speak thrn we will get back to that point later”

At best that has us at 50-50. We could push the odds this way or that way but the risk case will always be high enough that we can’t specify rule out hostile ai. True any sufficiently advanced AI would figure our co-operation real quick. It is just that there is no way to know for sure you get it right out the gate

If we can only accelerate mass to relativistic speed by removing the effective mass. To get a Atsterorid up to C it would have to be effectively masless. To make a warp speed projectile would have to involve some crazy math so the tidal forces don’t just shear it appart. Like the hyperfast low mass atoms hitting the decelerating atoms at the front of the object.

In enders game the AI would feather the FTL drives so that ships effectively stopped instantly as mass returned regular physics decelerated the object down to speeds available to regular physics. Which is a little handwavy but not actually that bad

That is all just space liberalism. Transhumanism is rad. Liberals can’t accept it because it would mean they aren’t the best they could be. Same for the other stuff. Admitting AI would make better decisions would be admitting the current ruling class isn’t the best.

Counterpoint though. Capitalism is effectively and AI and it is wildly hostile.

Counterpoint. A story where the Amazon’s are all as hornt as Ao3 girlies would be kinda rad. They would be inspecting their male captives for who has the nicest hands and applying guyliner to them to see who they want to keep as tea slaves. It only works if it so completely female gaze as to be incomprehensible to the male reddior though.