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Sci-fi futurists have cooked the brains of a generation of techbros. I'd love to live in a universe where dyson spheres were real, but we don't. It was a joke paper. These fuckers think we can just dismantle Mercury to turn it into a fucking dyson swarm so we can then hollow out the earth and turn it into a giant floating computer. Might as well just build a Matrioshka brain at that point.
don't throw sci-fi authors under the bus. these are just cool concepts to throw into your books because they make for interesting plots. some of them may have become cranks, but i think writing interesting stories came before the crankening. shit if authors had to worry that people would read their stories as something that needs to happen i don't think that many people would write books anymore.
Personally, I'd distinguish between sci Fi authors and scifi futurists. Like Frank Herbert (who I don't agree with politically) and the clown Curtis Yarvin.