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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

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Re: The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

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Yes, I too agree that there are an awful lot of people to put forth your point as a means to defend their actions. And like them, you're the one who contribute the support to replace the current definition.

It's pretty amazing how you started out arguing for the dictionary definition, suggesting that's how we know common usage. But here we are with you, days later, still completely unable to incorporate that fact into your worldview. Still insisting that your desire to erase the other senses of "violence" is somehow the status quo. The one who wants to erase bits that have been in the dictionary for decades and ignore t…

And who want to promote expanded definition of violence to benefit your political beliefs and reject other usage of it : its you

Re: The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

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post #171

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>There is very little space left to write a story that is interesting and compelling if one wishes to respect the bounds of what is scientifically plausible. Are we living in the same world? Quantum mechanics, relativistic effects, mathematics ( game theory anyone? ) are blowing my mind. The world is more phantastic than anything one could imagine and we know that we don't know everything. The constraint to stay in t…

But those are not science fiction. If you tell a story that is within the limits of what we know to be possible with the knowledge that we have right now, you will end up with a very boring story. If you start speculating about what _might_ be possible- you'll end up with time travel through black holes, like in Interstellar, which makes for a nice story, but not a very realistic one. There is a trade-off between spe…

Er, no, on all counts.

> But those are not science fiction.

Stories based on physics and maths are not science fiction? Are you feeling OK?

> If you tell a story that is within the limits of what we know to be possible with the knowledge that we have right now, you will end up with a very boring story.

Um. Most stories in general stay within reasonable limits of what we know to be possible - are most stories very boring? You basically seem to be arguing that all stories that aren't fantasy are boring, which is clearly untrue.

> Interstellar, which makes for a nice story

Interstellar is tediously boring rubbish :P

> For example, try to write a story where the entire premise is that someone manages to construct an Alcubierre drive. You'd get ...Star Trek: First Contact.

What... no? The phase-space of all possible Alcubierre-drive fiction is not "Vulcans come to visit", any more so than the phase-space of all possible stargate fiction is "Ra gets quite angry".

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