Sounds like a recipe for burnout for me personally; to me that is a hell society where people hide their dissapointment in me with their encouragement that I could do better. I’ve come a long way from perfectionism to satisficing on good enough.
The nut of the many…
Mutually Asssured Destruction is an easily technolngically achievable goal, that’s why we don’t see much development past that point. You only need to exterminate an enemy’s population once.
The lesson learned by the world, at this point, is that nukes are the only way to guarantee your country isn’t invaded and that agreeing to unilateral nuclear disamament is downright idiotic. Expect more countries gettng nukes this century.
Thinking about this more, I think The Enterprise has a realism advantage in that most of the crew has subject-area competence–that is they have to know engineering, or medicine, or navigation, or tacitcs, or whatever. These are things that can be taught and tested and developed.
I think where The Federation Office corps strays is in a few areas:
1a) multiple areas of competence–like everyone is always WORKING so hard to get BETTER at everything, like why do people need to also master classical instruments as well as advanced fluid dynamics? It reflects a striving typical among Ivy League merit-obsessed individuals, which is a real thing, but it also doesn’t ever criticize this mindset.
1b) the Science is Science trope, common SF trope --where a doctor might also know about quantum capacitors and an engineer might have enough basic biology to whipup a cure for a rapidly spreading degenerative illness. I still remember an episode with Kira and Odo getting stranded because neither of them knew shit about fixing engines and I’m still recovering from the shock.
Emotional intelligence – everyone seems to be on a pretty even keel, which is unusual for the driven types from 1a.
Command as meritocracy. Maybe someone in the military can speak to this, but in my view organizations have always been chock-a-block with ass-kissers and incompetent aristocrats. An actual command consistently competent is less believable than teleporters.
I think the Orville really shines at 1a–they have some seriously flawed characters.
Who does the struggle well? Futurama is the only one I can think of.
Is adding “before: 2022” to google searches no longes effective? It’s one of the few times I use google.
Low key one of the obnoxious things about sf in general and ST in particular is how sickeningly competent everyone is. Lower Decks makes a feint against it, but then falls into it. I was so happy that the pilot in The Expanse was a self-admitted bus driver, but then he turned into “the best damn pilot in the galaxy.”
I guess I’m at the age where I value relatability more that wish-fulflliment, the age I realize I’ll always be more Barclay than I’ll ever be La Forge.
Guess it sort of works if your life doesn’t involve a lot of suffering, kind of a shit philosophy otherwise. Don’t read Camus without reading Beauvoir.
Programmers knew about this in early days: GIGO–Garbage In, Garbage Out.
I’m white, but my dick is significantly darker for some reason I never understood… just in case this is meant as synecdoche and not specific case law.
The key thing in this context is that AI is designed to ingratiate itself with you. CEOs are so used to getting glazed by their employees, they are completely unable to pick up on the manipulation from an “objective” bot.
Why is it called SEO poisoning? It’s just plain SEO.
I think y’all are underestimating Pedro Pascal’s woman fanbase.
Yeah, the story of an attractive, emotionally sensitive guy raising a child alone in a harsh world is like marketing poison to women. /s
How does this cycle end? No idea really […]
October 24th, 1929 sound familiar?
I’ve always worked with people that have literal seizures if they haven’t already heard a song at least seventeen thousand times before. This might cause severe cerebral hemorraging.
A difference in political messaging, yes. In describing a reality, no.
The evangelical christians running the US are white supremacist fascists pushings for theocracy.
But even before that, Catholic Church was considered the Whore of Babylon by them; and Catholics were on the KKK terrorism tour along with Black and Jewish (and, I imagine, Black Jewish) people.
Mods watching this one closely for species-level slurs.
Both, I think.
Some people strive for excellence, but it should be healthy personal quest, not an insecure thirst for validation. In my ideal post-scarcity society, self- and other-acceptance is as important as achievement.
You might get something out of the book about the achievement society–Burnout Society, by German-born Korean philosopher by Byung-Hul Chans–or a video on the same by your favorite philosophy youtuber.