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I slogged through the ~4,000+ pages of the 5 books--not that I consider myself a fan at this late date--and the subtext of my post was: "I don't think that thou

by Terr_ 2y ago

I slogged through the ~4,000+ pages of the 5 books--not that I consider myself a fan at this late date--and the subtext of my post was: "I don't think that thought-experiment maps usefully to anything around us right now, it barely did for the characters in a medieval fantasy." All models are wrong, some are useful, I don't think this one is that useful, unless some researcher has a Technological Singularity in a Bottle somewhere.

TZubiri 2y ago
" unless some researcher has a Technological Singularity in a Bottle somewhere." But the model is that no one person holds all of the power? That power is many things at once and held by many people? Both in the book and in reality, matches to me.