▲ 2299 ▼ Foundation vs Dune (media.kbin.social) submitted 3 years ago by downpunxx@kbin.social to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world 228 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] hansl@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 years ago* (2 children) vs Hyperion: Dan Simmons: We’re headed for some bleak imperialism nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from serving AIs we haven’t discovered yet. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] the_itsb@lemmy.world 16 points 3 years ago (1 child) Don't we eventually find out the AIs are oppressing the humans and siphoning off their life-force/brain-power through the use of the portal system and that humanity's actual salvation comes from deeply believing in the power of love to the point of developing the ability to teleport to beloved places and people? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 years ago yeah IIRC that power of love thing was the way our fleshbag brains could deal with the same stuff that the AIs interacted with directly permalink fedilink source parent [–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 years ago* I really did not like Hyperion as much as I wanted to. Too many r/thisisdeep moments. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] the_itsb@lemmy.world 16 points 3 years ago (1 child) Don't we eventually find out the AIs are oppressing the humans and siphoning off their life-force/brain-power through the use of the portal system and that humanity's actual salvation comes from deeply believing in the power of love to the point of developing the ability to teleport to beloved places and people? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 years ago yeah IIRC that power of love thing was the way our fleshbag brains could deal with the same stuff that the AIs interacted with directly permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fiah@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 years ago yeah IIRC that power of love thing was the way our fleshbag brains could deal with the same stuff that the AIs interacted with directly permalink fedilink source parent
[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 years ago* I really did not like Hyperion as much as I wanted to. Too many r/thisisdeep moments. permalink fedilink source parent
