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ilzolende's avatar

> But consider the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). The SCA is a large community of people who do things in archaic and difficult ways, even though it is often straightforwardly possible to obtain the same result more cheaply and easily with modern technology and global supply chains. If we have superintelligence-guided nanobots, SCAdians would continue to sew their own clothes, calligraph their own awards, and forge their own swords.

I think we can go beyond "continue" and say that given transhumanism, SCAdians might well grow their own flax for garb, hit each other harder with sharper swords, learn more languages, cook with smaller eggs that exhibit more seasonal variance, and so on.

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If you want another good piece of fiction about this exact thing, try The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams. He was writing about this stuff before it was cool. I read it at probably not an age-appropriate point but it really shaped my thoughts on Utopia... Which are very similar to yours.

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