alt Hacker NewsI'm always so alienated (sorry) by the excitement around things like this. People start fantasizing about FTL and space arks and there is just no evidence that any of that is possible, desirable, effective, anything really.
I know I'm a killjoy, but I do think there's something negative about the impact of science fiction on engineers. Like, the people who tend (no offense) to be the most literal, black and white thinkers get exposed to art and instead of processing it as the output of human creativity, they start to imagine that it's desirable or even real.
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there is clear reason why this would be desirable for many, the others - sure.
> Like, the people who tend (no offense) to be the most literal, black and white thinkers get exposed to art and instead of processing it as the output of human creativity, they start to imagine that it's desirable or even real.
Why can't you process their fantasizing about it as an output of human creativity?
There is too much fantasy about distant habitable planet and not enough about making a planet in solar system habitable or building artificial habitats
The second is likely easier than the first
You can't imagine someone getting excited about difficult problems as an engineer? And you can't imagine why there's creativity involved?
I don't know, it feels like you can't process the output of human creativity.