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When I was working in China one of the most common readings of Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem was to take the Trisolarans as a stand-in for the US, and it doesn
by Barrin92 3y ago
When I was working in China one of the most common readings of Liu Cixin's Three Body Problem was to take the Trisolarans as a stand-in for the US, and it doesn't seem too far off the mark with proposals like this.
Trying to intefere with the development of open source hardware isn't just regulating products any more, that's just throwing a wrench into the scientific process.
- thrtythreeforty 3y agoThis is the kind of perspective I don't hear from within the US. How far does the metaphor go? Is it just the meddling, superiority complex, and halting of technological advance? Or do other Trisolaran traits such as inability to lie also have an analogue? (I kind of doubt it goes too deep. Liu is great at concepts but the worldbuilding was not super in depth.)
- Barrin92 3y ago> Is it just the meddling, superiority complex, and halting of technological advance? For the most part it wasn't much more deep than that, although one more subtle point was that there were also a lot of comparisons between the chaotic and unstable climate of Trisolaris due to its multiple suns and the perceived political / cultural disorder and division in the US, in contrast to the stable climate of Earth.