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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robin Hanson

      Senpai noticed me!https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1078392081389887488 …

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      Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
      Aristillus Series by @MorlockP adds 1 magic tech to a mostly ordinary world: antigravity. Allows low tech moon colonization, but depicted colony grows faster richer & w/ more variety than plausible. Book also completely neglects using antigrav on Earth. http://www.overcomingbias.com/2018/12/the-aristillus-series.html …
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

      2/ "The biggest blunder, however, is that no one in the book imagines using antigrav tech on Earth." My response is that the Earth governments are deep in the grip of Keynesianism / technophobia >> cc @robinhanson

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

      3/ Some of the villains are the paper pushers at "The Bureau of Sustainable Research", who suppress R&D (including by use of "Great Firewall of China" technology, which is only briefly alluded to) because of twin fears of (a) hard takeoff AI (b) automation killing jobs

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

      4/ The rapid growth of the Aristillus is based on: * immigration (GDP measures productivity times population) * capital flight from Earth * removal of deadweight costs imposed by terrible regulations * selection effects: Aristillus attracts 10x performers

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

      5/ Re "Corcoran messes this up a bit by adding two more magic techs: one superintelligent AI, and a few dozen smarter-than-human dogs. Oh and the same small group implausibly happens to be responsible for saving all three magic tech from destruction." ...

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

      6/ The Aristillus expats only invented one technology: antigravity AI and & Dogs were both fruit of hundreds, if not thousands, of researchers on Earth. Details are spelled out in the prequel short story "The Team", but the two distinct technologies were both under BuSuR edict

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

      7/ So one small group happening to save two technologies is as implausible as one set of bank robbers happening to get BOTH a brick of cash AND the contents of a bunch of safety deposit boxes. The correlation is baked into the universe; not uncorrelated dice throws.

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robin Hanson

      8/ Valid objection! Yes, it seems plausible that the Earth governments would want to benefit from AI. At the end of book 2, we see them salvage it. At the start of book 3 (as yet unreleased), we see them using it.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1078394655119757316 …

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      Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
      Replying to @MorlockP
      As a character in the book mentions, politicians often profit by allowing allies to get exemptions to tech limits. Some Earth character in the book aught to be at least planning to make that play.
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robin Hanson

      9/ Antigravity is developed in secret, by expats. Governments have no access to it in the novel... until at one point, they do, at which point they very very quickly exploit it.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1078394784539201536 …

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      Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
      Replying to @MorlockP
      But those are not very plausible fears regarding antigravity.
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Jacques de Molay, 15th Duke of Ozarka

          10/ Limited edition release for the kickstarter. I believe 11 people have hard copies of it. It will be available again during the next kickstarter.https://twitter.com/RantinArkansan/status/1078394816147398657 …

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          Jacques de Molay, 15th Duke of Ozarka @RantinArkansan
          Replying to @MorlockP @robinhanson
          Prequel short story? Where?
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robin Hanson

          11/ This is a valid question, and didn't come up in book 2, mostly because of the compressed time span of the war. Why did the US not develop nuclear power plants in between Trinity Test (16 July 1945) and Hiroshima (6 Aug 1945) ?https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1078395480323833856 …

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          Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
          Replying to @MorlockP
          But what about using antigravity on Earth, where most of its economics value lies?
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robin Hanson

          12/ Concur. But, again: which came first: jet fighters, or jet air travel? Nuclear bombs, or nuclear power? You're arguing "governments should be smarter, and look for profit opportunities". I agree with you - they should!https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1078395647517184005 …

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          Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
          Replying to @MorlockP
          They quickly exploit it to war against the moon, but not at all to make many billions of $ on Earth.
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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

          13/ But we both agree that governments act like "stable bandits" and enjoy economic growth which they can tax. (a) there will be more of that in book 3 (b) ...but why did the USSR not encourage more free market reforms so as to benefit? A: ideology blinded them.

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

          14/ The Aristillus series is not about well functioning government making intelligent trade-offs. It is about a degenerate case, where the USG is far worse than it is now (!!!!), and is actively Brehznevite.

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robin Hanson

          15/ "Moon colonists should have..." Valid argument. "Earth folks should have". Less valid argument. The Earth folks in question were not capitalists; they were authoritarian politicians grasping at short-term results. >>>https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1078396581781667841 …

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          Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
          Replying to @MorlockP
          The moon colonists are shown to be clever capitalists, so they should have been positioning themselves from profiting from using antigravity on Earth, when that became possible. Earth folks should also be focused on that application, instead of using it to attack tiny moon colony
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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

          16/ FDR ** should ** have had different policies, but he DIDN'T. So too in my novels, where the POTUS ** should ** have done things differently. But, again, once the secret is out / open-sourced we should expect to see more applications (and will!). cc @AmityShlaes

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

          17/ Anyway, @robinhanson , I truly appreciate you taking the time to read my novels. I've been enjoying your work for years, and I'm thrilled that you read a bit of mine. Thanks so much - and thanks for not pulling punches. I'd expect no less / appreciate the rigor!

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robin Hanson

          18/ Agreed! But absence of proof is not proof of absence. And by "proof", I mean "presence in the text of the book". The story spans 1,300 pages...and it focused specifically on one story line (lunar rebellion). Other fascinating facets are pruned.https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1078419294386618368 …

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          Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
          Replying to @MorlockP
          There are lots of folks on Earth besides governments. All those people willing to make antigravs to fly to the moon could instead use them to smuggle stuff between places on Earth. Must be far larger smuggling demand there than for taking stuff to moon.
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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

          19/ There are tons of other facets that do not fit in the core narrative that I have already / am now / plan to continue fleshing out in short stories. The plan is to write ~30 stories, collected into three books: Before Aristillus, During Aristillus, and After Aristillus.

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 27 Dec 2018

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          20/ Exactly! But, when I do write a short story about people using the open sourced AG drive to smuggle across national borders, you can be sure that one of the characters will be named "Hanson". :) https://twitter.com/teachbarefoot/status/1078421805570969601 …

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