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Burnside’s Zeroth Law of space combat:

Science fiction fans relate more to human beings than to silicon chips.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/crew.php#id--Yo...

With exception of Iain M Banks novels.

Even there, the Minds are written to be very… human. They are written to think faster, but I think it’s probably impossible to write a realistic superhuman mind. Certainly impossible where said Minds have the capacity to internally replicate the full consciousness of billions of humans so much faster than real time that those simultated humans could between themselves play a game of John Searle’s Chinese Room that itself was both genuinely conscious and running faster than real time.

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