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I dunno, I'm no Culture series buff but from conversations with a friend who is I'm under the impression that To The Stars serial proposes a better job of havin
by fennecfoxen 10y ago
I dunno, I'm no Culture series buff but from conversations with a friend who is I'm under the impression that To The Stars serial proposes a better job of having humans integrated into a unified Governance, though I suppose you could interpret the "just leave the AI types completely in charge" as the more AI-positive position.
Of course, the setting lets them cheat a little: it's basically HPMoR for magical girls. :b
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/ToTheStars http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/ToTheStars
http://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/1461984 http://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/1461984
- arethuza 10y agoActually, I don't think the Culture is a case of "just leave the AI types completely in charge" - they are presented as having a lot of votes on things from whether you are allowed to build stuff (e.g. a network of cable cars) in a wilderness through to all-out-war. If a side looses a vote on something serious they regard it as natural that the society can split and nobody seems to regard this as unusual or undesirable. One of the interesting things about the Culture novels is if you have god-like AIs (i.e. the Minds) how can a society control them? The answer the Culture gives is that the only real control is peer pressure e.g. the Grey Area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCU_Grey_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCU_Grey_Area Of course, any human in the Culture has to be comfortable with the idea that they are essentially well treated pets. Although pets that are free to leave at any time...
- taneq 10y agoIt's also mentioned that pan-humans can augment themselves intellectually to the point where they're at least in the same ball park as Minds. They're just no longer considered 'human' at that point.