but that doesn't mean it can't get worse, that's like saying the aspects of our society that are currently authoritarian mean 1984-as-close-as-could-realistically-happen-tech-wise could never happen as "it's technically there"

What about things like autism and ADHD, they're technically disabilities that are hindrances but less so/in a different way, should they be as eliminated

You kinda went to an extreme too, maybe the solution's somewhere in the middle?

Doesn't mean it's a good or bad thing just that it's like the current system

But if you even metaphorically force people to become plumbers (as they don't have to be only that any more than your example meant only that) instead of go to college to avoid that you just end up with a flipped scenario and too many plumbers

So we should let people be dumb and ugly because the 1% might turn into perfect Aryans and also we're too arrogant to control a baby's intelligence but can fix the environment

Hopefully in the sense that real girls could modify themselves to be cat girls and fend off (perhaps with claws etc. added through modification) guys who think they're asking for it as if you're talking about the "classic" "anime totally-not-a-slave-or-pet-just-a-"domestic-companion" waifu who you could probably order as a catgirl version of your favorite anime best girl looks-and-personality-wise" archetype you'd need them to somehow be created at 18 (unless you want to give them a childhood just to take it away with "domestic training" brainwashing) in a way that wouldn't make them still too-soon-past-creation to be too young to consent and you'd need to make them stay 18 forever.

> Wait for the natural disasters to get worse and the droughts to start killing millions via famine.

If that's what it'd take couldn't that be faked even if it'd take someone with Ozymandias-level resources

Would people save the environment if we told them something like that

if it already happened, does it need to happen to continue some kind of bootstrap loop or does it already happening render pursuing it redundant

And? We're not exploring space (to what extent we are at least planning to do it manned) to find new places to put extra people either but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it

Before I clicked on the title/looked at the description I didn't think this was the water kind of floating city but more the (in terms of actual setup not regressed social values as that was a period piece this is from) Columbia from Bioshock Infinite kind

any job (ranging from those in politics to live theater) where to do better than a human AI would need to be so humanlike it becomes ethically questionable to let it take all our jobs

why does this sound like you're happy if the whole industry goes under if it just means you get all movies the way you want them and never have to hear celeb news again

then comes some-human-in-a-period-of-time-before-this-while-humans-still-make-media making a Black-Mirror-esque plot where what appears to be some awesome portal fantasy adventure the main character goes on is actually just their AI warping a simulated world (whether it's a world that was simulated all along or AI secretly putting them in one when they had this idea) so that as soon as they had some fleeting thought about the kind of game that would be cool or w/e they were literally living the game

so are you saying it's because of the absurdity (if so, would it be theoretically possible to have a normal enough president (perhaps the closest candidate you'd support) to shift us back/retroactively affect our nature) or that a weird thought experiment joke based on something absurd from our world about that being part of a simulation proves we're in that simulation being joked about

That just leads to the demise of fandom if not worse

What I mean by worse is my idea for a Black Mirror episode if they accepted fan-submitted scripts as the tech-of-the-episode is some sort of still-wearable-on-head-but-connected-to-brain-by-reading-brainwaves device that enables its users to have all movies and TV they watch warped in this manner (and all other media that refers to them, from social media posts to actor interviews changed likewise when they see them) automatically according to what it's determined via brainwave-reading that the user wants even if they don't know what they want out of it. However the twist is thanks to a "mysterious glitch" (that the hypothetical episode would leave unclear if was deliberate vengeance-motivated sabotage or not) the devices now work on the real world for anyone who got them so they're trapped in seeing their ideal reality while actually interacting with the real reality that's seen by those who didn't get the device/dealt with canon movie/show plots e.g. someone could stay in a tiny run-down apartment with an abusive partner because they see their dream relationship in a luxury apartment and see, like, bruise-free skin and what are actually hits to outsiders manifesting to them as kisses

I came up with this idea when Black Mirror S5 got such a negative backlash it was ticking me off though it was also inspired by how fans of certain series (book, movie or TV) literally pretend installments they don't like/find problematic didn't happen so I was like, you want to "I reject your reality and substitute my echo chamber" here you go

90% of what most people would want out of a hive mind could be accomplished with telepathy but you'd still retain your individuality and could turn connections on and off at your leisure

then what would be the point of joining another? ;)

if you think Marvel Studios invented the multiverse theory even as it relates to fiction you're obviously not a real comic fan or at least an exclusively Marvel fan or you'd know about the history of the DC multiverse in the comics

> If the multiverse is infinite and traversable, there would be infinite travelers showing up in infinite locations, in every multiverse.

but also infinite obstacles in their way which could be why we wouldn't see them (if the possibility of traveling undercover doesn't mean this turns into The Egg with everyone being everyone)

Not everyone wants to even metaphorically be the king but that doesn't mean they'd be content settling for servitude to someone who does

For the same reason it'd be a really boring sims playthrough if all you made them do in their free time was play The Sims on their own computers

Why does it feel like you'd be disappointed with any real-or-real-seeming fantasy world if it did have things like dungeons, elves and orcs and you had magic but you weren't essentially the main character of some isekai anime who not only has some chosen one prophecy about them but because reasons every hot babe "npc of this world" is attracted to them with the villains just being either tsundere or yandere and the older-but-not-elderly women being MILFs

> If time travel is possible, why aren't we seeing visitors from the future?

why do we assume it'd, like, be, people in obviously-futuristic-by-old-fashioned-sci-fi-standards clothing landing on the white house lawn during the term of a president they agree with to ask for his help preventing a disaster in our future but their past