@slartibartfastibast quoting others
“That’s when a friend of mine stumbled over a footnote in an esoteric army report about simulator sickness in virtual environments. Sure enough, military researchers had noticed that women seemed to get sick at higher rates in simulators than men. While they seemed to be able to eventually adjust to the simulator, they would then get sick again when switching back into reality.”
In the future, all women are autistics on testosterone, and the global GDP per capita exceeds $120,000. Conventional gender as we know it has dissolved and been replaced by a neurotype inventory dynamically read from the global hypergrid.
That first bit would affect childbearing.
Does that stat hide a planet full of impoverished depth grovelers mining for nuggets of neoplasm, offset by a small cabal of multi-trillionaires?
Edit: shit, you ninja-edited in another sentence. I do that a lot. Is this hypergrid capable of sustainably manifesting unenumerably vast continuums of juvenile rage and fear?
An astute observation!
Childbearing has been replaced with artificial wombs in order to fine-tune the characteristics of neural development and orientation the future-market (not the same as the “future market”) demands. And yes, the cost of these systems and state-sponsored child raising is reflected in the GDP, and it is quite extensive, though hardly limited to multi-trillionaires.
Those territories with no state-sponsored child raising glitter spectacularly, but of course they are always on the brink of collapse. You know how it is.
As for the hypergrid, it depends on just how deeply you want to entertain the emotions of others in your hardware. I recommend not diving /r90k/. Oneness with the Universe is a little more difficult there.
