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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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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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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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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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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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 @robinhansonReplying to @MorlockPThe 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 colony1 reply 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
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
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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!2 replies 3 retweets 27 likesShow this thread -
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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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Robin HansonVerified account @robinhansonReplying to @MorlockPThere 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.1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
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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Hanson Roberts. He's a pirate. Commercial transports dread encountering him.
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