My hard sci-fi book dovetails into AGI, economics, agrotech, surveillance states, and a vision of the future that explores a fair number of novel ideas.
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* Review of wealth sources with respect to food
* Socioeconomic ramifications of a free food distribution system
* Implications of artificial wombs, longevity pills, and nefarious people
* Benefits of personal, real-time DNA analysis devices
* Organic, bioluminescing street lamp replacements with 500+ year lifetimes (a bathtub curve extension analog)
* Robotaxi services using machine learning to optimize owner income
* How optimal prisoner's dilemma strategies resolve Hume's guillotine
* Strategies for evading capture in a surveillance state
* What plans an AGI would give itself (that don't involve conquering humanity)
* Ways an AGI could completely disable our emergency call centers
* Rationale behind a Galactic race towards harnessing black hole energy
and more.
When you hit rock bottom, know when to stop digging, and when to get a shovel.
For my part, I’ll admit that the setup wasn’t very good. I was trying to be the straight man foil to your bit to the degree I felt your comment permitted, as I’m not “in on the joke,” as it were, at least I wasn’t in on it then. I think HN is a hard venue to do comedy well, as you have to read the room over longer than a single comment thread or post. Your comments were already pretty deadpan and dry, so I think many couldn’t even see it as distinctly humorous rather than snarky or sarcastic or even unfunny if they viewed it as against HN guidelines.