How, in principle, is keeping a mass of monkeys in a condition of fully-automated luxury space communism distinguishable from a paper-clipper apocalypse? ...
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Surely Iain M. Banks’ Culture is at least interesting compared to paper clips? If the end-of-scarcity space communism isn’t authoritarian and prescriptive, there is room for individual novelty and transcendence?
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Only interesting part of the Culture, IMHO, is the Ship-Minds, and they'd be a lot more interesting if they schizzed off into deep space and left the Culture behind.
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