AdeleneDawner comments on Mundane Magic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Steven_Bukal 30 April 2011 11:48:11PM 8 points [-]

The concept is popular on 4chan's /tg/ board where they're called "humanity" stories or "humanity, fuck yeah" stories. Here's one archive of such threads:

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=humanity

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 01 May 2011 05:32:40AM 6 points [-]

Most of these have me going "argh, physics/game theory/evolution doesn't work that way!", but there's a few good ones in there. I liked this one and this one in particular, though the former has a fair bit of evolution fail in it.

Comment author: Steven_Bukal 01 May 2011 11:56:29AM 3 points [-]

Agreed, they can definitely get a bit absurd. This one is one of my favourites:

http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/13-TheBalticWarCD/TheBalticWarCD/The%20World%20Turned%20Upside%20Down/0743498747__24.htm

The short story "The Road Not Taken" by Harry Turtledove is also a good one if you can find it.