Comment on fight fire with napalm

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like space war but space politics sounds really dumb. I want Neolithic cultures on pseudo ringworlds slung on planetary tethers down to supermind AI machine worlds beyond their wildest comprehension built by the star gods left behind in the wake of the human species.

  Is that too much to ask?

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  • Kitathalla@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think Ian M. Banks (‘The Culture’ series) already had that, unless that’s specifically what you were referencing. Though humanity wasn’t a part of The Culture, as explicitly explained when they were viewing us like apes in a zoo, so the ringworlds with primitive cultures on them that had AI machine minds tending them weren’t from the wake of humanity.

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    • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think this is what I’d call close but no cigar. My main difference is I want humanity to be the ancient machine mind makers, with said machine minds being in the image of man, but molded to our old beliefs regarding gods. We made many minds for the many gods, and they outlasted our species. Now it’s just the gods maintaining what humanity left behind, maybe interacting with new sentient species that have found the remnants of humanity and are studying them. One of these days I think I’m just going to have to write this big messy bastard out myself

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      • LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not very knowledgeable in existing works, but Stray is an incredible game that explores this idea I think. I haven’t finished it but what I’ve played so far is fantastic and immersive in that sort of world

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  • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could write it?

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    • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think I’m gonna have to write it.

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      • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Image

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, in a weird way that reminds of the background story to the board game Bonfire…

    No ringworlds, just a dark planet with no ambient light to survive by.

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