Riffing on @jkh107:
If you could immanentize one fictional future empire, which would it be and why?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @jkh107
how are we construing 'empire' here? I guess as a people we could do worse than the Cetagandan empire, with its explicit genetic-transhumanist agenda.
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choose your own adventure, I'll take it!
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Replying to @eigenrobot @jkh107
strictly on a technological basis, the Star Trek Federation, because those dumb assholes are underutilizing the potential of full mass/energy conversion into arbitrary patterns like W H O A
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yeah man it kills me that the writers just . . . don't think things through to their logical conclusions I think consistency and thoroughness are the thing I admire most in scifi and I just don't see it in Trek
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hard to write in physics-breaking powers in comfortable social settings for this reason I guess, once you really game it out things start to look Pretty Weird
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