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ziq wrote
Someone on reddit tried to 'prove' it's not colonialism by linking to Banks saying "it's not colonialism, it's way better".
Random_Revolutionary wrote
Tbh its a good premise for a space opera
libre_dev wrote
As someone who's been an observer of the LessWrong crowd for several years, transhumanists are full of shit yeah. Perhaps not all of them, it's just the entire thing reeks of privilege.
Manifest destiny in space.
I'd be careful making such comparisons when there's almost certainly no other sentient or even multicellular life outside Earth. While Musk's idea seems to be "Reddit island in spaaace", there's nothing wrong with having humans on other planets/dwarf planets/moons in say a couple of hundred years. It's either that or go extinct in anywhere between 100 - 1,000,000 years.
Personally I think we have a long long way to go considering we don't even have a self-sustaining colony on the south pole yet.
GrimWillow wrote
oh god, they just had to describe life as having a "nasty, brutish and short” phase...quoting an ignorant racist colonialist to infer ideas about primitive culture and its value...
I never knew much of Musk before, but he's quite the joke.
surreal wrote
Elon Marx Karl Musk
ziq wrote (edited )
From his twitter:
I looked into Iain Banks' writings:
It's literally space colonialism. This explains SO much about a lot of the 'anarcho' transhumanists I've been exposed to.
And of course near everyone on reddit is convinced this shit is anarchy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/6romtx/is_the_culture_of_iain_banks_an_example_of_an/
Manifest destiny in space.