Oh yes, well, I wouldn’t expect any actual predictions at this point. :3 That would be rather difficult. But I agree that factionalism is the Most Likely Scenario; vocal dissent will work against minimum entropy, and alliance-seeking will work against maximum entropy.
The analogy of the formation of stars and planets keeps coming to mind, but I think that might be just noise.
The problem with factionalism is that group psychology tends to lead to inter-faction wars… do you think this is likely to be a legitimate, real-world problem in the future?
We can definitely expect to see conflict—we see it already at a small scale. I’m not really comfortable wearing the futurist hat when it comes to predicting what future factional conflicts will look like, though.
If your interested in fiction about possible futures, i advise you look at some of the below universes :) <---- EDIT for clarification.
Shadowrun seems like one possibility that would be cool but not very realistic in the future, that’s one of the only fictional universes i would assume has any substantial probability given the predicate that magic returns to the world.
Another one would be the Ardneh sequence by Fred Saberhagen which requires no such prior just a lot of awesome AI development that doesn’t end in a completely positive singularity.
I dont refer to them for actual predictions xD i just thought if you were interested in possible futures consistent with evidence then you should read those series. I’m quite aware of that fallacy, but I’m sorry if i was unclear.
Oh yes, well, I wouldn’t expect any actual predictions at this point. :3 That would be rather difficult. But I agree that factionalism is the Most Likely Scenario; vocal dissent will work against minimum entropy, and alliance-seeking will work against maximum entropy.
The analogy of the formation of stars and planets keeps coming to mind, but I think that might be just noise.
The problem with factionalism is that group psychology tends to lead to inter-faction wars… do you think this is likely to be a legitimate, real-world problem in the future?
We can definitely expect to see conflict—we see it already at a small scale. I’m not really comfortable wearing the futurist hat when it comes to predicting what future factional conflicts will look like, though.
I’m sorry; I did not mean to interrogate you. I meant my questions as a hypothetical conversation-starter; I may have been too aggressive.
If your interested in fiction about possible futures, i advise you look at some of the below universes :) <---- EDIT for clarification.
Shadowrun seems like one possibility that would be cool but not very realistic in the future, that’s one of the only fictional universes i would assume has any substantial probability given the predicate that magic returns to the world.
Another one would be the Ardneh sequence by Fred Saberhagen which requires no such prior just a lot of awesome AI development that doesn’t end in a completely positive singularity.
Caution! Caution!
I dont refer to them for actual predictions xD i just thought if you were interested in possible futures consistent with evidence then you should read those series. I’m quite aware of that fallacy, but I’m sorry if i was unclear.
Well, then. :3 I’d be happy to take a look! Thank you for your entirely non-fallacious contribution.