vakusdrake

So I'd see this world as maintaining the possibility for surprise and objections. They could have informed Grant of how they would drop info into him. Instead, they expected it to come up at some point (which it did), and, depending on his reaction at the time (which could vary with the manner it was brought up), they would change their interaction with him. This also gives people the possibility of manipulating the interaction with him, as the lady talking with him did. People still have choices, and those choices have consequences and are not all pre-ordained.

That works fine though my problem with it is that it makes that whole interaction weird... (read more)

That is the default, because most people are OK with that :-)

See that makes it kind of a weird thing for that character to have brought up then. After all why bring something up if it only applies to people who wouldn't care by definition.

Also you don't really explain how religious fanaticism is going to effectively be suppressed via economics. Like how you still haven't really given any plausible way for that to happen, like what are you going to try to starve them to death if they don't deconvert?, that wouldn't work for a number of reasons. Also I'm not just talking about a small number of cultists. Barring unprecedented... (read more)

Hmm, there are two problems (though as a whole it's the best utopia I've ever seen conceived) I have with this utopia.

• Firstly the default is for the powers to just insert the truth into your mind with consent or even letting you know, which I imagine many people like myself would find pretty terrifying, even if it's done in a way that we ourselves might have willingly chosen to get implemented. In fact I imagine most non-transhumanists would have pretty strong preferences against self modification and having their minds tampered with.

• Secondly is the fact that I really doubt the portrayed efficacy of many of