The universe is so awesome and crazy and interesting and I can't wait for when humanity is advanced enough to understand all of it. Until then I'll be standing by for emotional support because I'm nowhere near smart enough to be doing any of that actually important stuff.
utopia
It's a protopia. It is a word better than ours. It is not perfect. It would be advisable to keep this in mind. dath ilan likely has its own, separate problems.
And I’m not even mentioning the strange sexual dynamics
Is this a joke? I'm confused.
yeah, the moment i looked at the big diagram my brain sort of pleasantly overheated
I think the flaw is how he claims this:
No one begins to truly search for the Way until their parents have failed them, their gods are dead, and their tools have shattered in their hand.
I think that these three things are not things that cause a desire for rationality, but things that rationality makes you notice.
why is this so downvoted? just curious
If I am not sufficiently terrified by the prospect of our extinction, I will not take as much steps to try and reduce its likelihood. If my subconscious does not internalize this sufficiently, I will not be as motivated. Said subconscious happiness affects my conscious reasoning without me consciously noticing.
Harry's brain tried to calculate the ramifications and implications of this and ran out of swap space.
this is very relatable
That's a partial focus.
particularly girls
why!?
I certainly believe he could. After reading Tamsin Leake's "everything is okay" (click the link if you dare), I felt a little unstable, and felt like I had to expend deliberate effort to not think about the described world in sufficient detail in order to protect my sanity. I felt like I was reading something that had been maximized by a semi-powerful AI to be moving, almost infohazardously moving, but not quite; that this approached the upper bound of what humans could read while still accepting the imperfection of their current conditions.