I didn’t get the space :porky-happy: expansion specifically because I don’t want to deal with that shit any more than I have to now and I also highly doubt that space :porky-happy: would stand a chance of keeping the internal contradictions in check long enough to menace the galaxy.
I hope you’re right, I’m honestly scared of what a near infinite frontier would mean for a hypothetical capitalist society capable of making it to type 1 let alone type 2.
I firmly reject Dark Forest. Not everyone on earth was an imperialist psychopath, and looking at the vast galaxy and thinking “Oh yeah people are definitely going to throw rocks at us the second they know we exist” is capitalist bullshit. AFAIK pretty much every socialist agrees that we’re a lot more likely to run in to other communists out there. And, like, that’s no guarantee we’ll be friends, or even able to meaningfully communicate, but colonization in space is such a ridiculous pipe dream of imperialist brain poisoning.
If you ever want to make a Game Theorist so mad they pee ask them to explain why people in the Prisoner’s Dilemma keep choosing “Trust” at far higher rates than Game Theory predicts they should.
Fair! I’m not a fan of Three Body Problem. The bits about the cultural revolution were interesting because I’ve never really seen it depicted by a Chinese person, but the whole premise of the story relies on “technology” too absurd to even dignify with the word magic. Like I can suspend a lot of belief, but unfolding protons and etching circuits on them was too much. It’d have been more credible to just say “Yeah the three body aliens are wizards and they’re going to fly here on space dragons”.
The bits about the cultural revolution were interesting because I’ve never really seen it depicted by a Chinese person
Agreed, that was interesting. I had to switch to an epub because the audiobook version was a bit too sad though.
the whole premise of the story relies on “technology” too absurd to even dignify with the word magic
Yeah, i was a bit dissatisfied with that. My lack of hard science knowledge probably makes it a lot easier to enjoy these sorts of books tbh. Even then, fucking around with protons was far fetched.
Is this from the new DLC? I never got these messages despite being surrounded in a galaxy filled with :porky-happy: and :frothingfash:
I didn’t get the space :porky-happy: expansion specifically because I don’t want to deal with that shit any more than I have to now and I also highly doubt that space :porky-happy: would stand a chance of keeping the internal contradictions in check long enough to menace the galaxy.
I hope you’re right, I’m honestly scared of what a near infinite frontier would mean for a hypothetical capitalist society capable of making it to type 1 let alone type 2.
It means a near infinite border to defend from nickle iron asteroids spun up to a significant fraction of c and flung at their core worlds.
What? We were all thinking it.
Dark forest hours, who up?
I firmly reject Dark Forest. Not everyone on earth was an imperialist psychopath, and looking at the vast galaxy and thinking “Oh yeah people are definitely going to throw rocks at us the second they know we exist” is capitalist bullshit. AFAIK pretty much every socialist agrees that we’re a lot more likely to run in to other communists out there. And, like, that’s no guarantee we’ll be friends, or even able to meaningfully communicate, but colonization in space is such a ridiculous pipe dream of imperialist brain poisoning.
If you ever want to make a Game Theorist so mad they pee ask them to explain why people in the Prisoner’s Dilemma keep choosing “Trust” at far higher rates than Game Theory predicts they should.
I totally agree, I was just referencing the book.
I did not know about the game theory thing, going to keep that in my pocket.
Fair! I’m not a fan of Three Body Problem. The bits about the cultural revolution were interesting because I’ve never really seen it depicted by a Chinese person, but the whole premise of the story relies on “technology” too absurd to even dignify with the word magic. Like I can suspend a lot of belief, but unfolding protons and etching circuits on them was too much. It’d have been more credible to just say “Yeah the three body aliens are wizards and they’re going to fly here on space dragons”.
Agreed, that was interesting. I had to switch to an epub because the audiobook version was a bit too sad though.
Yeah, i was a bit dissatisfied with that. My lack of hard science knowledge probably makes it a lot easier to enjoy these sorts of books tbh. Even then, fucking around with protons was far fetched.