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Notably, Dune is a work of fiction.
by yifanl 11mo ago
Notably, Dune is a work of fiction.
- delichon 11mo agoIsn't it wonderful how much fiction can teach us about reality by building scaffolds to stand on when examining it?
- stonemetal12 11mo agoFiction is I have a hypothesis, and since it is not easy to test I will make up the results too. Learning anything from it is a lesson in futility and confirmation bias.
- d0mine 11mo agoGedankenexperiments are valid scientific tools. Some predictions of general relativity were confirmed experimentally only 100 years after it was proposed. It is well known that Einstein used Gedankenexperiments.
- yifanl 11mo agoWhat lesson is there to learn here, is humanity at risk of moral homogenization? Is it practical for factions of humanity to become geographically distant enough to avoid encroachment by others?
- ridgeguy 11mo agoFiction is modeling going by a different name.