Sounds like a decent society, cribbing ideas from various religions and utopian movements. I guess the main problem is that young people, being naturally rebellious but inexperienced with superstimuli, would be quite vulnerable to the export image of the US—sex drugs rock-n-roll and coca cola. See 80s USSR, or the story of the mall in Najran.
Yeah, I’m confused to think about who has got the weirder society. dath ilan has more global guardrails yet invests more into experiments. We’ve got fewer guardrails, but also a load of random “you can’t sell that” rules. I think (?) that reddit doesn’t exist in their world, or the free sex movement you mention, etc. So in some ways we’re less ethically constrained, allowing us to find weird niches.
‘You’re allowed to do what you want, provided you don’t learn anything or produce wealth in the process’, vs. ‘You’re allowed to do what you want, provided you learn something or produce wealth in the process’.
“We have trained GPT-3 on all of reddit, and unleashed it for the population to use. Here are the freaking weird and beautiful and terrifying things that happened.” vs “No we didn’t do that because we’re more careful and sensible.”
Sounds like a decent society, cribbing ideas from various religions and utopian movements. I guess the main problem is that young people, being naturally rebellious but inexperienced with superstimuli, would be quite vulnerable to the export image of the US—sex drugs rock-n-roll and coca cola. See 80s USSR, or the story of the mall in Najran.
Yeah, I’m confused to think about who has got the weirder society. dath ilan has more global guardrails yet invests more into experiments. We’ve got fewer guardrails, but also a load of random “you can’t sell that” rules. I think (?) that reddit doesn’t exist in their world, or the free sex movement you mention, etc. So in some ways we’re less ethically constrained, allowing us to find weird niches.
‘You’re allowed to do what you want, provided you don’t learn anything or produce wealth in the process’, vs. ‘You’re allowed to do what you want, provided you learn something or produce wealth in the process’.
“We have trained GPT-3 on all of reddit, and unleashed it for the population to use. Here are the freaking weird and beautiful and terrifying things that happened.” vs “No we didn’t do that because we’re more careful and sensible.”