I really liked the post! The world felt interestingly detailed and consistent. I think it’s a rare skill to be able to come up with such stories and probably pretty useful for doing work on AI strategy, for instance!
Glad you appreciated it. That is a lot of the appeal of hard science fiction for me, and I agree it’s useful to model the world with concrete mechanisms, which really forces you to be able to justify every concrete claim you are making about a scenario.
I really liked the post! The world felt interestingly detailed and consistent. I think it’s a rare skill to be able to come up with such stories and probably pretty useful for doing work on AI strategy, for instance!
Glad you appreciated it. That is a lot of the appeal of hard science fiction for me, and I agree it’s useful to model the world with concrete mechanisms, which really forces you to be able to justify every concrete claim you are making about a scenario.