▲ 47 ▼ Roko puts self on ice floe, saving us the trouble (www.lesswrong.com) submitted 2 years ago by dgerard@awful.systems [M] to c/sneerclub@awful.systems 78 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] grumpybozo@toad.social 10 points 2 years ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago (3 children) I recall reading quite a few of those, but don't recall any specific building ones, esp not which much themes of 'people stop interacting with the outside world'. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [+] grumpybozo@toad.social 8 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 2 years ago The granddaddy of those would be E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, from 1909 permalink fedilink source parent [–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago The Caves of Steel was basically named for it, with a major plot point revolving around the fact that everyone is too agoraphobic to have committed the murder because of generations spent living in giant domed cities kept isolated from the natural world. permalink fedilink source parent [–] adrienne@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago Also James Blish, in the of-their-time-but-still-worth-reading Cities in Flight series. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 2 years ago (3 children) I recall reading quite a few of those, but don't recall any specific building ones, esp not which much themes of 'people stop interacting with the outside world'. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [+] grumpybozo@toad.social 8 points 2 years ago [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 2 years ago The granddaddy of those would be E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, from 1909 permalink fedilink source parent [–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago The Caves of Steel was basically named for it, with a major plot point revolving around the fact that everyone is too agoraphobic to have committed the murder because of generations spent living in giant domed cities kept isolated from the natural world. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 2 years ago The granddaddy of those would be E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops, from 1909 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 7 points 2 years ago The Caves of Steel was basically named for it, with a major plot point revolving around the fact that everyone is too agoraphobic to have committed the murder because of generations spent living in giant domed cities kept isolated from the natural world. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] adrienne@awful.systems 3 points 2 years ago Also James Blish, in the of-their-time-but-still-worth-reading Cities in Flight series. permalink fedilink source parent