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• Commented on We'll all go together when we go
  Half a dozen engineered infertility diseases? Using different pathways so no-one is immune to them all. People aren't dropping dead so they keep moving around and spreading them. If they have a latency of a few years you wouldn't even...
• Commented on A game of consequences
  I thonk you end up with actual, fully functional, honest-to-goodness communism. Somebody asks for something, you know they need it more than you do, you give it to them. If you don't everyone knows and you're a pariah. It should...
• Commented on A game of consequences
  So following on from my previous How much Bureaucracy can you loose with telepathy? (OGH has given us brain implants so I'm guessing that's how it's done) Credentialing of all kinds isn't needed. Inspections are now constantly performed by the...
• Commented on A game of consequences
  So this goes back to the earlier discussion of hive-minds right? You need an infalable system to tell you when someone has gone or is going off the rails. Telepathy hands you that. Punishment is handled by something equivalent to...
• Commented on On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers
  I would think that any sufficiently advanced VN machines would be subject to evolutionary effects. Building super-giant space lasers is a pretty big waste of effort without providing any survival benefit to the machines themselves. Over millions or billions of...