on a discord server of ~100 people, I have interested 2, maybe a 3rd. one because he has an incurable degenerative disease and needs some hope, the other two are math or adjacent, one of whom weeps for joy with me whenever an open problem is resolved and is now using Fable to help with his research. most people pretend it doesn’t exist or use it for frivolous things. my intuition is that they are mostly in a “it’s too unpredictable, so no use wasting time thinking about it” camp. it isn’t so much “sci fi is childish fantasy”, but “bets on sci fi are boom or bust, and I have a mortgage”
on a discord server of ~100 people, I have interested 2, maybe a 3rd. one because he has an incurable degenerative disease and needs some hope, the other two are math or adjacent, one of whom weeps for joy with me whenever an open problem is resolved and is now using Fable to help with his research. most people pretend it doesn’t exist or use it for frivolous things. my intuition is that they are mostly in a “it’s too unpredictable, so no use wasting time thinking about it” camp. it isn’t so much “sci fi is childish fantasy”, but “bets on sci fi are boom or bust, and I have a mortgage”