Periods of prolific production of good science fiction have generally coincided with periods of robust expansion of the middle classes. And my definition of 'good' is generally middlebrow, widely popular stuff. Not connoisseur bullshit haute scifi.
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high quality quote tweets - a measure of people reading other people’s work and introducing it to other people in relevant context. Kind of like a pagerank type thing. Hypertextuality
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related-ish answer would be something like volume of personal memoirs that get surfaced and shared - people reading about each other’s experiences
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This is also mine but for my own life not so much the civ at large.
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Have you read The Lathe Of Heaven? Imagining what the world would look like if that sci-fi utility function were fed into an “effective dream”
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Curiosity maximization. Social production of Darwin-style naturalists or Bucky-Fuller-style tinkers. Universal basic science-hobbyism.
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@gordonbrander We should do this
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Can I abstract my paperclip? The world would be a better place if nobody lived in fear. It's not even close.
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No. Only object level.
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My utility would be age of retirement from corporate work (financial independence). I think my metric probably leads to your metric but is a bit broader.
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