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It would make for good Sci-Fi premise as an explanation for the Great Filter[1]. Some advanced civilization keeps destroying planets that have life or are ideal
by pedrocr 7y ago
It would make for good Sci-Fi premise as an explanation for the Great Filter[1]. Some advanced civilization keeps destroying planets that have life or are ideal for it but the first heuristic they use to do it fast doesn't catch all cases. Earth is below the threshold so we get by, for now...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
- CogitoCogito 7y agoThat's basically the premise of the Three Body Problem book trilogy. No more spoilers! Now you must read it!
- ohaideredevs 7y agoJust a heads up that it's not actually a good book at all and is by far the most over-hyped book on here.
- gdy 7y agoWhat is a better book?
- ohaideredevs 7y agoDiamond Age (doesn't deal with aliens), Anathem (very long-winded), A Deepness in the Sky (this is the closest to the Three Body Problem theme-wise, but also the weakest scientifically, though still better science than the Three Body Problem)
- gdy 7y agoSome more?
- ohaideredevs 7y agoWhat type of books are you interested in? Since you didn't specify, I am going random: Martin Eden by Jack London, anything BESIDES All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, Neuromancer by Gibson. If you are fishing for me to run out of books that are "better" than TBP, honestly, it would be a long list. If you are genuinely interested, tell me what kind of books you like, and I will be glad to give you more.
- gdy 7y agoWell, my first reaction to your critique of the "Three body problem" was to argue because I liked it, but on the second thought I've decided to ask you for the reading recomendations :) I guess I'm looking for sci-fi involving grand picture of the universe or 4X-style books, but not necessarily limited to it. Out of the books you've named, I've read Diamond Age and Neuromancer and while I can't say anything bad about them I still like the Liu Cixin's book more. "Deepness in the Sky" is on my to read list. I haven't read Martin Iden, but liked Alaska stories a lot. Remarque is good, but I like Heinrich Böll much more.
- ohaideredevs 7y agoI read through your posts because I was wondering who you are, just heads up. Anyway, I actually don't know of too many books that deal with that scale, maybe Asimov's Foundation series, but I am guessing you read that already. I find it hard to compare the TBD problem to anything because I just thought it was utter tripe, on the level of Brandon Sanderson's / Roger Zelazny's books - a lot of content, very little substance (with the exception of "This Immortal" by Zelazny, which is supposedly the inspiration for Planescape: Torment, which I can wholeheartedly recommend to any teenager). Of course, you might also enjoy Piknik na Obochine, Trudno Bit Bogom, and Neukratimaya Planeta, as people of your particular background tend to do ;^) Though that last one didn't really age well as I grew up. Oh, and Chekov is amazing when compared to the other famous Russian authors imo. Your turn for some recommendations, i.e. your top 3, since I am looking for stuff to read. Not necessarily in this genre.
- eej71 7y agoI really tried to read it but I just couldn't get into it. I'm jealous of those who enjoyed it and rave about it. I must have missed out on something.
- Loughla 7y agoHonestly. Maybe it was the hype train that ruined it for me before I read it, but I just couldn't get into that one.The science definitely didn't do anything for me. For reference, my current favorite SF is the Night's Dawn Trilogy. Not sure if that flavors my 'review' for anyone.
- JackFr 7y agoIt is probably overhyped, but it is good. It (and the whole trilogy) have a handful of really good ideas. The translation at times seemed clunky, the pacing was, uneven and the plotting was not quite as tight as I would have liked. But the handful fo good ideas were good enough that the book stayed with me for a while.
- ohaideredevs 7y agoI didn't find any of it good besides the introduction which motivated me to look into Chinese history more. The author thinks too much of himself and tries too hard to appear smart. This is tedious. I can draw a sharp contrast between this author and Neal Stephenson, who is brilliant and introduces many new ideas / explains computing in a way that has motivated many people to study it. TBP's characters are comical. Not much else to say - the womanizer slacker obsessing over the quiet girl was too much to keep reading. Well, that, and some of the "brilliant defense strategies."
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoSounds like part of the plot of the Mass Effect trilogy.
- XorNot 7y agoThe game Grey Goo did this. Also the only game where the human faction is basically the Culture - there's a fantastic line in one of the cinematics of a human captive getting free and commenting "no signs of AI or nanotechnology. They still use bullets in their guns."
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoWhy are so many people so in love with the idea that the solution to the fermi paradox is sapiocide on a cosmic scale? It neither fits the data nor does it hold any philosophical merit.
- monomyth 7y agoWe are about to eradicate mosquitos.
- CamperBob2 7y agoBecause they're an active threat.
- Loughla 7y agoWhat has history taught us that human cultures do when they meet another culture new/different to themselves?
- JackFr 7y ago> It neither fits the data nor does it hold any philosophical merit. That sounds smart, but both assertions are wrong.