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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tara Maya via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] ai test<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…I don't think it's inadvertent. The censorship of certain topics and the censoriousness on certain other topics is certainly built right in. (Which makes it rather annoying for writing fiction, I've found. Bad guys are SUPPOSED to have loathsome opinions. But that's another issue... Tara<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Oh hey, cool, I have an idea.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tara in our times in the USA and probably elsewhere, culture wars are escalating to the point where businesses are having to take sides, then settle for a much reduced market as the other side of the culture war will eschew that retailer or place of business.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A writer might be able to leverage that culture war to her advantage. Categorize stuff that generally goes together well: feminist movement and social justice for instance. I want to leave out nuclear power because that one is undergoing a remarkable transition as the greens are discovering how clean it is, how little emissions, how safe and how small a footprint nuclear power requires. OK good.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Now, write two versions of your story. Write one with your bad guys embracing all the stuff that kinda goes together on one team, and your good guys opposing. Now switch them: still have bad guys, but have them all embrace the opposite. It isn’t entirely clear what is the opposite of feminism (is there a masculism? (never heard of it)) but the opposite of social justice I suppose could be imagined: your bad guys could advocate re-establishing slavery.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So now you have really the same story but you would be writing for both sides of the culture war. You could even have a pen name and a different publisher so that it wouldn’t be quite as obvious what you are doing. You could make a buttload.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>