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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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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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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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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Did I just watch a lively yet congenial exchange of high-level, well-thought-out critiques about a piece of media that didn't devolve into an ad hominem slap fight? ESPECIALLY when one of them was the creator? Its like spotting a unicorn.
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