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[–] 30 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Sci-fi futurists have cooked the brains of a generation of techbros. I'd love to live in a universe where dyson spheres were real, but we don't. It was a joke paper. These fuckers think we can just dismantle Mercury to turn it into a fucking dyson swarm so we can then hollow out the earth and turn it into a giant floating computer. Might as well just build a Matrioshka brain at that point.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Sci-fi futurists

    They're like feudal age peasants that believe in magic and witches lmao. I mean this conflation between technological capabilities and literally magic is something that has been a major part of the "AI" bubble and techbros aren't the only ones that think like this imho. Most liberals/average people do as well otherwise I don't think they'd be as blase about things like climate change (which is genuinely terrifying).

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    don't throw sci-fi authors under the bus. these are just cool concepts to throw into your books because they make for interesting plots. some of them may have become cranks, but i think writing interesting stories came before the crankening. shit if authors had to worry that people would read their stories as something that needs to happen i don't think that many people would write books anymore.

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