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Commented on A game of consequences
North Korea in Space isn't particularly attractive. What happens if the Grand Poobah is a madman? Amish in Space requires some amount of social consensus. It's something of a Prisoner's Dilemma in that the model works only if everybody's on...
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Commented on It could be worse
The modern Chinese surveillance society seems to be a spiritual descendant of the sort of controlled societies we saw "behind the Iron Curtain", where your neighbors snitched on you and dissent was carefully managed, expressed only to trusted associates. An...
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Commented on The present in deep history
From the distant future, they'll lump together the Industrial Revolution with the rise of computers and the Internet, as well as medicine, physics, etc. It might be called the Technology Revolution or the Scientific Revolution. The use of fossil fuels...