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Plausible Fiction – David Spivak
fiction Introduction Each of us can see problems in the world, cases where something we care about is in need of attention. On the global scale, I am deeply concerned about rampant pollution, countries engaged in hostile acts of aggression, political corruption, cultural fragmentation, the effects of modern technology on human lives and livelihoods, and more.
On the global scale, I am deeply concerned about rampant pollution, countries engaged in hostile acts of aggression, political corruption, cultural fragmentation, the effects of modern technology on human lives and livelihoods, and more. It begins with the world as it is now, including all relevant details and without distortion; It ends with a future that the author desires; It follows a trajectory that obeys natural laws and social dynamics; and It is memetically fit, i.e. it invites participation by those who read it. Exactly how this might work is a gap which remains to be filled within my own fiction here, but luckily creating formal systems to relate and compose things is precisely the kind of problem we try to solve at Topos Institute, so it’s not implausible to me.
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