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7/4/2025, 12:30:42 PM
>>16715502
>Poorly thought out philosophies founded in nonexistent life experience.
Too much mainstream scifi consumption. That we will find some way to travel much faster than light or a network of alien wormholes is a given in the mind of people like OP. We just need to give unlimited supplies of money (but not OP's money) to sciencey people and it will happen.
When every episode of Trek Wars SG-1 shows an abundance of easily accessed planets just waiting for humans to colonize, it seeps too deep into their brains for them to compartmentalize as being entertainment completely unrelated to reality. In some of the up/down arrow corners of the internet, it's completely acceptable to use events in those shows and even magic based stories like Harry Potter as evidence of what course the real, physical world should take.
While I too enjoy that type of entertainment, I do wonder if the combination of so much science fiction and universal suffrage is going to doom us. There's a notion that such shows gets the public interested in science and engineering so they advance both but how many grounded scientists and engineers (grounded is important here) do we get for every million that votes based on unrealistic assumptions they take to be true because they show them in a show?
>Poorly thought out philosophies founded in nonexistent life experience.
Too much mainstream scifi consumption. That we will find some way to travel much faster than light or a network of alien wormholes is a given in the mind of people like OP. We just need to give unlimited supplies of money (but not OP's money) to sciencey people and it will happen.
When every episode of Trek Wars SG-1 shows an abundance of easily accessed planets just waiting for humans to colonize, it seeps too deep into their brains for them to compartmentalize as being entertainment completely unrelated to reality. In some of the up/down arrow corners of the internet, it's completely acceptable to use events in those shows and even magic based stories like Harry Potter as evidence of what course the real, physical world should take.
While I too enjoy that type of entertainment, I do wonder if the combination of so much science fiction and universal suffrage is going to doom us. There's a notion that such shows gets the public interested in science and engineering so they advance both but how many grounded scientists and engineers (grounded is important here) do we get for every million that votes based on unrealistic assumptions they take to be true because they show them in a show?
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