06-15-2021, 04:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2021, 04:17 AM by Captain Genet.)
Chinese science fiction writer Liu Cixin once remarked Trump is the only American president he understands without subtitles.
And maybe not only because of that. Liu's way of thinking is suspiciously similar to Trump's. He imagined a "dark forest universe" where supercivilizations have nothing better to do than annihilate each other. Someone called Trump a Malthusian here, well Liu is a cosmic ultra-Malthusian. I think it's more likely for supercivilizations to see all thinking beings as fellow souls. Morality grows with civilization, or if it doesn't self-destruction follows. And if there is indeed a fundamental scarcity of resources in the Cosmos, civilizations learn to curb their population growth like we already are.
And maybe not only because of that. Liu's way of thinking is suspiciously similar to Trump's. He imagined a "dark forest universe" where supercivilizations have nothing better to do than annihilate each other. Someone called Trump a Malthusian here, well Liu is a cosmic ultra-Malthusian. I think it's more likely for supercivilizations to see all thinking beings as fellow souls. Morality grows with civilization, or if it doesn't self-destruction follows. And if there is indeed a fundamental scarcity of resources in the Cosmos, civilizations learn to curb their population growth like we already are.