| ▲ | yifanl 18 hours ago |
| Notably, Dune is a work of fiction. |
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| ▲ | delichon 18 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Isn't it wonderful how much fiction can teach us about reality by building scaffolds to stand on when examining it? |
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| ▲ | stonemetal12 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Fiction is I have a hypothesis, and since it is not easy to test I will make up the results too. Learning anything from it is a lesson in futility and confirmation bias. | | |
| ▲ | d0mine 14 hours ago | parent [-] | | Gedankenexperiments are valid scientific tools. Some predictions of general relativity were confirmed experimentally only 100 years after it was proposed. It is well known that Einstein used Gedankenexperiments. |
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| ▲ | yifanl 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What lesson is there to learn here, is humanity at risk of moral homogenization? Is it practical for factions of humanity to become geographically distant enough to avoid encroachment by others? |
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| ▲ | ridgeguy 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Fiction is modeling going by a different name. |
