Average person not inculcated with a steady diet of sci-fi media—and I’m not talking about butter-soft Star Wars stuff, but actual hard sci-fi in the vein of your Egans and Baxters—tends to lack the ability to imagine/perceive such possibilities as RSI and therefore defaults to “nothing ever happens” as a response, however ill-informed that reaction may be.
Average person not inculcated with a steady diet of sci-fi media—and I’m not talking about butter-soft Star Wars stuff, but actual hard sci-fi in the vein of your Egans and Baxters—tends to lack the ability to imagine/perceive such possibilities as RSI and therefore defaults to “nothing ever happens” as a response, however ill-informed that reaction may be.