In Banks's Culture novels, unlimited compute dissolves envy via simulated lives
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-11-06
Drawing on Iain M. Banks's Culture novels, the author describes a compute-abundant society where every citizen can experience the lives they never lived—a world with no token limit. Citizens quickly realize envy is pointless, since different life experiences mix good and bad; others' grass is no greener.
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