Time to bring Communism to these people. (Is this what it feels like to be America but in reverse?)

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          It means a near infinite border to defend from nickle iron asteroids spun up to a significant fraction of c and flung at their core worlds.

          What? We were all thinking it.

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              I firmly reject Dark Forest. Not everyone on earth was an imperialist psychopath, and looking at the vast galaxy and thinking “Oh yeah people are definitely going to throw rocks at us the second they know we exist” is capitalist bullshit. AFAIK pretty much every socialist agrees that we’re a lot more likely to run in to other communists out there. And, like, that’s no guarantee we’ll be friends, or even able to meaningfully communicate, but colonization in space is such a ridiculous pipe dream of imperialist brain poisoning.

              If you ever want to make a Game Theorist so mad they pee ask them to explain why people in the Prisoner’s Dilemma keep choosing “Trust” at far higher rates than Game Theory predicts they should.

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                  Fair! I’m not a fan of Three Body Problem. The bits about the cultural revolution were interesting because I’ve never really seen it depicted by a Chinese person, but the whole premise of the story relies on “technology” too absurd to even dignify with the word magic. Like I can suspend a lot of belief, but unfolding protons and etching circuits on them was too much. It’d have been more credible to just say “Yeah the three body aliens are wizards and they’re going to fly here on space dragons”.