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Re:Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley eli... by stareatgoats on Saturday September 02, 2023 @04:51AM (#37359656)
Agree, but why? It's an interesting theoretical question when you think about it. Is it because people who have the money and means have a skewed concept of the world making them incapable of constructing utopias/well functioning "synthetic societies", or is it more fundamentally impossible? And in the latter case, why then should we even try to improve society?
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Re:Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley eli... by throw_pm23 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @05:13AM (#37359788)
Because every organically developing system has a great advantage that these projects lack: time. Cities evolve by gradual corrections/adjustments, you cannot anticipate every issue upfront.
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Re:Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley eli... by timeon on Saturday September 02, 2023 @08:04AM (#37360737)
Ideas needs to adapt when meeting reality.
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Re:Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley eli... by ben_w on Saturday September 02, 2023 @11:22AM (#37362312)
I don't even know if it's true, but if it is I'd guess the Typical Mind fallacy: most of us have blind spots where we don't think about how "good" people in a hurry would react, let alone the power-hungry actively trying to break it for their own gain.
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