"Remembrance of Earth's Past" meta

[primeideal]

For posterity's sake: I wrote up a longish piece about why I take an optimistic interpretation of "Death's End" on Reddit here. These are all thoughts I've been turning around in my head for a while but I can be a bit insecure about posting my optimistic takes amid the Reddit dudebros, hopefully they are all too busy getting drunk for New Year's Eve to downvote it ;) But I had a comment to someone else's post with a tl;dr version of this that got a good response, so I finally got around to it.

Includes discussion of Douglas Hofstadter's analysis of the prisoner's dilemma, as previously seen here.