I suspect that straightforwardly taking specific EA ideas and putting them into fiction is going to be very hard to do in a non-cringeworthy way (as pointed out by elle in another comment). I’d be more interested in attempts to write fiction that conveys an EA mindset without being overly conceptual.
For instance, a lot of today’s fiction seems cynical and pessimistic about human nature; the characters frequently don’t seem to have goals related to anything other than their immediate social environment; and they often don’t pursue those goals effectively (apparently for the sake of dramatic tension). Fiction demonstrating people working effectively on ambitious, broadly beneficial goals, perhaps with dramatic tension caused by something other than humans being terrible to each other, could help propagate EA mindset.
Fiction demonstrating people working effectively on ambitious, broadly beneficial goals, perhaps with dramatic tension caused by something other than humans being terrible to each other, could help propagate EA mindset.
+1.
Any fiction that believably shows a bunch of disparate folks solving coordination problems seems really good on this dimension. (Children of Men comes to mind...)
I suspect that straightforwardly taking specific EA ideas and putting them into fiction is going to be very hard to do in a non-cringeworthy way (as pointed out by elle in another comment). I’d be more interested in attempts to write fiction that conveys an EA mindset without being overly conceptual.
For instance, a lot of today’s fiction seems cynical and pessimistic about human nature; the characters frequently don’t seem to have goals related to anything other than their immediate social environment; and they often don’t pursue those goals effectively (apparently for the sake of dramatic tension). Fiction demonstrating people working effectively on ambitious, broadly beneficial goals, perhaps with dramatic tension caused by something other than humans being terrible to each other, could help propagate EA mindset.
+1.
Any fiction that believably shows a bunch of disparate folks solving coordination problems seems really good on this dimension. (Children of Men comes to mind...)