I can't be the only one who finds Asimov's psychohistory (or sociophysics in real-world parlance) disturbing, right?
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Replying to @chu_bacca
To me, that is the main reason we know of it - the fact that it IS disturbing is what makes it interesting to write stories about
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Replying to @AtomicStraw
This is an interesting reframing and I wish I'd thought of it. I'll look into it again with this in mind.
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Replying to @chu_bacca @AtomicStraw
Asimov said he himself was doubtful that such a thing could ever exist and stacked the deck to make it seem possible
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A Galactic Empire with trillions of people where history on individual planets doesn't matter much
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chu_bacca
and the "analysis" in Foundation is just him ripping off the actual history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chu_bacca
in any case just like the robot stories are abt deconstructing the Three Laws, same w psychohistory
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chu_bacca
the Foundation books are ultimately about how psychohistory fails and the Foundation cheats
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chu_bacca
(I just realized the Foundation shares its name with the SCP Foundation)
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(both shadowy organizations of Men in Black manipulating regular people for their own good)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chu_bacca
anyway it's a mild spoiler but a ton of people have said Donald Trump's election feels exactly like the rise of the Mule
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chu_bacca
the shocking moment when all the expert models are completely wrong
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