And given the actual figures it would be nice to hear him speak up for the folks REALLY getting the shaft in Hollywood: Latinos. Check out this graph:

To be fair, going out and doing something does stand a greater chance of success than complaining. However given her bankroll, I imagine she could lead by example. instead of, um.. complaining.

“ White, young, skinny, well connected, pretty. It’s all that matters in Hollywood”

You got the money girl, start producing films.

The simplest solution would be castrate all the men. Thus removing the twin problems of population overgrowth and violence. Not sure I’d be onboard for that. It is our competitive nature that allows to be a technological species in the first place. A bunch of human bonobos lazing about in the garden of eden would be…

There’s no such thing as time really. There is only Spacetime. You’re right about us not having enough data to call it “impossible” if we are using the term as mathematicians do. However the only theoretical way to subvert the barrier to travel that C presents are Closed Timelike Curves and they are becoming…

The book is insane. The movie is like reading the summary on wikipedia. Only shorter.

I’ve read all of his books. I want my money back on the Mars ones now! Just kidding. No, like I said its a good article from the point of view of not taking the Earth for granted. As for wishful thinking, KSR is only looking at the near future and current technology. I do not believe it is unreasonable to assume that…

FTL is totally impossible. It’s as impossible as time travel, because it IS time travel. It’s as impossible as trying to find the start of a sphere or the inside of a line.

Yeah he actually said the Earth, which I think is super short sighted. He must have been having a bad day.

Our world isn’t “broken”... yet. Let’s try to keep it that way. Climate change sucks for human cities etc, but only has a marginal impact on the biosphere. Look at the various other extinction level events that the earth has faced and come through stronger every time. The “anthroposcene” is only likely to have an…

but we never did “the other things”.

KSR’s article is useful for pointing out how sweet we have it here on Earth, but it seems odd from a guy who writes sci-fi. So far there’s nothing we have imagined that we haven’t been able to do when we actually tried to do it (and got the funding).

Well, not at first. Just when the Dukes of Hazzard reached them.

1. its based on a computer game: failure guaranteed.

love Moon and source code. This will be awful. Its axiomatic.

So that’s how the dinosaurs died out.

Emma Leigh is that you?

Yeah “Jon’s are annoying. But not as annoying as “Marc”.

“People of color are not sassy or dangerous or wise”