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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
This is one of the ongoing debates about the setting, in fact. The AIs aren't displacing everybody and everything else, but it's not clear that they shouldn't be, logically, given their abilities and the limits of their competitors. It's more of less a 'game fiat' that they are not.
The other big topic of debate about plausibility involves the terraformation of Mars.
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The debate isn't over whether it's plausible, because it's simply not possible to be this far this soon. It's whether it's a good or necessary thing to allow this as one of the few impossibilities for the setting.
I'm divided on the concept. It does open up a larger variety of adventures on Mars with all the GMO life and open surface area compared to enclosed colonies. But it is a bit silly fast for a few decades and planetary heating.