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Stamets to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world • 28 days ago

"Which fictional universe would you rather live in?"

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"Which fictional universe would you rather live in?"

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Stamets to TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world • 28 days ago
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  • @spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    13•28 days ago

    The Culture. Which is all of the above plus friendly superintelligent AI to run it for us.

    • @A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      7•28 days ago

      Ding ding ding. The Culture is Star Trek ++.

      Gene manipulation that’s so effective you can just will yourself to change sexes, get stoned, be performance-enhanced, whatever

      You never have to work if you don’t want to.

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      5•28 days ago

      It’s so utopian most of the stories have to take place outside it, because paradise gets boring.

      • @spittingimage@lemmy.world
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        3•28 days ago

        And that’s why it’s the best place to live.

        • AwesomeLowlander
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          2•28 days ago

          Oh absolutely, The Culture would be my answer too.

    • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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      3•28 days ago

      This was my thought as well. Star Trek still has people dying of old age. I’m pretty sure the culture let’s you go as long as you want.

      • @Bgugi@lemmy.world
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        1•28 days ago

        It’s a bit taboo, but I believe permitted. “Typical” lifespans are on the order of a few hundred years.

        • AwesomeLowlander
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          2•28 days ago

          Don’t recall it being taboo, just that people eventually get bored and end it out of ennui, in universe. Granted it’s been ages since my last readthrough.

          • @Bgugi@lemmy.world
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            2•27 days ago

            I’m in the middle of my first! In Use of Weapons, they talk about how the character Zakalwe (not culture) has chosen to be modified to a fixed age, and how contrary that decision is the cultures philosophies.

            • @turmacar@lemmy.world
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              2•27 days ago

              IIRC they think it’s weird, but importantly they still do it. He’s an agent so there’s Special Circumstances but they still value the choice to do it more than they do sticking to norms.

            • AwesomeLowlander
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              1•27 days ago

              Hmm I definitely need to do a reread. Do you have the text of that bit handy?

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              deleted by creator

    • @TypFaffke@feddit.org
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      But Elon musk is a fan which kinda ruins it

      • peto (he/him)
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        6•28 days ago

        I’d take his claim to have read it as seriously as anything else he says.

        • @Stovetop@lemmy.world
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          3•28 days ago

          Great point. He probably read it as deeply as he played Path of Exile.

      • @spittingimage@lemmy.world
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        2•28 days ago

        He also breathes oxygen. Whatcha gonna do now?

        • @TypFaffke@feddit.org
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          I will never have Oxygen again, now that I know this

        • @MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
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          1•28 days ago

          Only breathe high quality fluorine, the best electron acceptor.

        • osaerisxero
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          1•28 days ago

          you got me in a box here

        • @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de
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          0•28 days ago

          There is one way to resolve that where everybody who matters wins…

          • TachyonTele
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            1•28 days ago

            Ignite the atmosphere. I like how you’re thinking!

      • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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        2•27 days ago

        He might have read it, but did he understand it? He’s a fan of the Torment Nexus.

      • mosiacmango
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        1•28 days ago

        Chuds like rage against the machine too. Doesn’t make Rage any less excellent.

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