Synopsis
If you ever thought the quotes from fictional historians at the start of each chapter in a sci-fi novel were the best part, this book is for you!80,000 years in the future mankind has begun to turn all the mass in the galaxy into a single giant home for itself.
Most humans live in a space a half light year across. The mass of human built structures is a hundred thousand times that of the sun. There are quintillions of rotating cylinders. The population is so vast that the human mind cannot properly understand such numbers.A man uploaded near the end of the twenty-first century when far human superior AI was first invented decided to write a series of essays to argue that even though there is enormous poverty, inequality and waste, his generation did a good job in how they set things up.However, some people disagree with him.And one of them is writing response essays…A hard Sci-Fi setting, where much of the population lives at the Malthusian limit, and where the buildings are big.
An exploration of philosophical questions about population ethics, what the world should be like after human labor is obsolete, and the grand possibilities that become available if we create human superior AI that does what we want it to instead of what we tell it to.