Iain M. Banks, The Culture Series 

Me too!!

Ditto. F current earth.

Sign me up. Finally no more people racist against us dumb blondes...

My fellow transhumanists, unite!

and if you disagree with the culture you can just go live in a system with at least a few trillion people that will completely agree with you and the culture will provide you need anyway

Thanks for leaving your comment, a loss indeed

You may hsve changed my life with that comment I'll probably look to play that game got any tips?

Thank you! I love it too

Essentially, this century will determine our entire species future.

Delusion of grandeur.

Is it believable that you should be born into such a time? I mean, are we in a simulation and should you think it more likely if you live a more extraordinary life? I’m not sure I’m convinced by the simulation idea, as there might be other possible ways reality is not what it seems, beyond a simulation. Maybe things are too strange for our minds to even consider?

@@alistaircrookes5825 If we are in a simulation, I think its an itch for disorder and spiraling chaos that being here is scratching. Like a holiday to the past from somewhere advanced, possible not even human. :)

How do you know the script is AI? How do I get AI script?

Well put

Let's wait for another 10 000 years....

In the culture series I believe Orbitals are space habitats in the shape of a ring, or ring world ie the Halo rings

​@@TheOrbitalArrayIn the Culture orbitals are a catch all term for all kinds of large scale non terrestrial mostly non mobile megastructures with populations far in excess of the millions or multiple millions of individual culture citizens - biological and human equivalent AI drones etc - that might live on a typical Culture ship and it's Mind. That's why he had to actually invent a way of expressing the losses incurred in the destruction of an Orbital in the series: "gigadeath"! RIP Iian M. Banks!! 👋😔

Elysuim?

@@geraldpaznokaitis1431 Ahhh, I forgot about that one, though I think orbitals are 'usually' hundreds of times larger. Woops, I just tried to look up the exact size of Elysuim, and realized that I had totally forgot that it has spokes... Ringworlds and orbitals normally do not have spokes, and they usually do not have roofs, either... They keep their air in with gravity and tall walls. When i looked it up, it said that the design of Elysuim was based on the 'Stanford Torus'. The torus is 1.8KM in diameter and designed to house 10,000 to 140,000 permanent residents. So that sounds about right. Halo rings were 30,000KM in diameter for the largest, and 10,000KM for the smallest ones. Culture Orbitals were 4,000,000KM in diameter(calculated from their stated 24 hour rotation rate and 1G gravity. So I was WAY off in my Hundreds of times estimate... A halo ring is somewhere in the range of 10,000 times larger, and an orbital around 2,000,000 times larger... For comparison, a ringworld is 300,000,000KM in diameter, so around 166,666,666 times bigger than Elysuim... So, yea, this really do not compare P.S. There is also Luna Base from "Starship Troopers"(the movie), which seems to be around 4,000KM in diameter. It was a ring that circled the moon about 300KM above the surface... Also, 'The Book of Boba Fett" showed the Glavis Ringworld, which I THINK is a very small (but real) ringworld...

Rings are a great deal bigger than elysium which is basically a particularly large stanford torus. @@geraldpaznokaitis1431

That is a most interesting viewpoint, and I can see where it comes from. The British middle classes not living in fear like their working class compatriots. However, that may be about to change, as they do not control our AI future..

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Nothing else I have read comes close. These books have had an inestimable impact on my thinking.

The BBC adapted one of Iains’ short stories into an audio version. Worth listening to if it’s still available.

Thank you for the feedback, will do better next video!

I am that higher entity, and i won't grant you that wish.

​@@_h1tman_ Lil bro thinks he's funny.

Thank you for your feedback

My earlier videos have some inconsistencies which hopefully will be fixed in the upcoming videos, please forgive the content

Also an AI like response 😅

There's no movie tv exec or Hollywood producer alive smart enough to be aware of let alone understand any of what banks was trying to do an adaptation would be doomed before it ever began

Just no, there isn't a commercial producer alive who'd, "get it."

@@nicolassalamanca8051 @Eris123451 The team that produced The Expanse or The BSG reboot certainly could.

But a nerdy game created would.

Nah we won't get there imaginary people in the sky and greed will make sure of that

@@nicolassalamanca8051 There is no such thing as greed. There are no scientific work on this

AI narrator

Is that a problem? What's wrong with that evolving beyond human?

​@@Dave_of_Mordorit's an ideal that requires faith in something beyond human

@@Grazzmazzium What do you mean by that? Why does it "requires faith in something beyond human"? From my pov, having a more in-depth understanding of our biology can help us go beyond being human. Are you talking about religion? If you are, then I think we're done here since you and I have different values, and we're not going to convince each other

@@Dave_of_Mordor for all we know, there is no intelligence beyond human, and thinking we can conceptualize one as humans is inherently faulty

@@Dave_of_Mordor did I reply? It's not showing mine

This is my 2nd video ever , it gets better after this :)

@@TheOrbitalArray It seemed like the entire thing - text, voice, images and soundtrack - were all AI generated. I thought it was a magnificent way to inform about the Culture. Very well done!

Perhaps a few Culture minds have RU-vid accounts. Wouldn't that be fun?

How?

I haven't read it but what kind of violence?

I'm really intrigued as to your reasoning care to elaborate please?

@@nicolassalamanca8051 Well just like your "greed" comment, kids in the US are condition to believe any egalitarian, stable or fair society to be bad

I was about to ask how were the books. You saved me tons of hours from feeling out if the book i'm currently reading is good or not. Thank you! 5 mins in, i had a feeling i was listening to some propaganda shoved down my ear canals. 10 mins in, i had to stop the vid, suspecting the books were made by some immature writer. LOL!

​@@noiJadisCailleach Glad I could help! "Good scifi isnt about the future, its about today IN the future" is a common phrase often used to explain why objectively bad scifi is popular. Such scifi is 'good' only if you happen to share the author's worldview. Then theres the bloat, the fluff, the pad, the endlessly tedious character development that does nothing but thicken the book. I dont care about the life story of an obnoxious non entity. The best modern scifi imo are books that divide events or characters into chapters, that way I can just skip whole chunks of 50 or so pages at a time and lose nothing in the telling of the story. In other words, I can do while reading what an editor should have done before publishing.

I'm intrigued by your views care to elaborate on why you think its a childish view of humanity and identity? I've read matter phlebas player of games and currently going through use of weapons Liked all of them except phlebas which i *hated*

We seem not have read the same books then or perhaps you're thinking of a different Ian M. Banks or perhaps you didn't really understand them or then again perhaps you haven't even read them in the first place ?

Your loss, then :\ @@noiJadisCailleach