The Singularity Saints Podcast

016: Science Fiction with Nate Ward

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Science Fiction can be more than cheap genre fiction with little value. Joined by my guest, Nate Ward of The Things We Say Podcast, we discuss how science fiction can inspire and what we think some gets right and some gets wrong.

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Notes:

  • My guest is Nate Ward, one of the two hosts of The Things We Say podcast.
  • https://twitter.com/TTWSpodcast
  • Science fiction as meaningful literature and media
  • Levels of science fiction
  • Things we think Sci-Fi gets right and wrong
    • Star Trek’s Holodecks
  • The failure of utopian visions
  • Data, AI, and motivation
  • AI and the Prime Directive
  • Sound in space
  • Creating cultures
  • Taking human problems to the starts
  • Religion in Science Fiction
  • Economics in Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction we talk about:
    • Star Trek
  • Star Wars
  • Firefly
  • The Expanse book series by S.A. Corey
  • Battle Star Galactica
  • Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
  • The Orville
  • A book whose title and author shall not be named…

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