Worth noting: not an author screed. Which the author was surprised he had to clarify, but I mean, my dude - have you met people?
Atun-Shei has a great video about it. One of my old reddit comments makes a brief appearance in a shitty tone of voice. I found this out after commenting basically the same thing on the reddit submission for the Atun-Shei video. I have never been nailed so hard in my life.
Incidentally I do still recommend Friendship Is Optimal as exploration of alignment and the control problem… with ponies. And as a more hard-sci-fi but still buck-wild examination of simulated worlds, Permutation City by Greg Egan.
Worth noting: not an author screed. Which the author was surprised he had to clarify, but I mean, my dude - have you met people?
Atun-Shei has a great video about it. One of my old reddit comments makes a brief appearance in a shitty tone of voice. I found this out after commenting basically the same thing on the reddit submission for the Atun-Shei video. I have never been nailed so hard in my life.
Incidentally I do still recommend Friendship Is Optimal as exploration of alignment and the control problem… with ponies. And as a more hard-sci-fi but still buck-wild examination of simulated worlds, Permutation City by Greg Egan.