I hope one day (today? this year?) creating writing AIs get good enough that I can plug in worldbuilding sketches like yours and get stories worth reading (without needing to be Gwern). This is great, my only gripe is the humans all seem baseline instead of KSR-esque or Diaspora-esque etc, probably the nuclear war of 2033 stunting transhumanization. Also re: factions I’d be keen to see how highly contingent extreme founder effects play out, you do mention chinatown etc but maybe it’ll be corporations or weirder collectives:
I used to play Alpha Centauri, a computer game about the colonization of its namesake star system. One of the dynamics that made it so interesting was its backstory, where a Puerto Rican survivalist, an African plutocrat, and other colorful characters organized their own colonial expeditions and competed to seize territory and resources. You got to explore not only the settlement of a new world, but the settlement of a new world by societies dominated by extreme founder effects. What kind of weird pathologies and wonderful innovations do you get when a group of overly romantic Scottish environmentalists is allowed to develop on its own trajectory free of all non-overly-romantic-Scottish-environmentalist influences?
I hope one day (today? this year?) creating writing AIs get good enough that I can plug in worldbuilding sketches like yours and get stories worth reading (without needing to be Gwern). This is great, my only gripe is the humans all seem baseline instead of KSR-esque or Diaspora-esque etc, probably the nuclear war of 2033 stunting transhumanization. Also re: factions I’d be keen to see how highly contingent extreme founder effects play out, you do mention chinatown etc but maybe it’ll be corporations or weirder collectives: