With the kind of scaling required to approach utopia, by what mechanism do we screen out the bad bits? Our legacy includes total war and human sacrifice; these things too would scale.
What would a Nazi utopia look like? Perhaps an alternate history in which they won the Second World War, conquered Europe and Russia, exterminated the Jews, and became the pre-eminent global superpower. (Harry Turtledove has written several short stories set in versions of that history.) It wouldn’t be anyone else’s utopia, though.
With the kind of scaling required to approach utopia, by what mechanism do we screen out the bad bits? Our legacy includes total war and human sacrifice; these things too would scale.
What would a Nazi utopia look like? Perhaps an alternate history in which they won the Second World War, conquered Europe and Russia, exterminated the Jews, and became the pre-eminent global superpower. (Harry Turtledove has written several short stories set in versions of that history.) It wouldn’t be anyone else’s utopia, though.