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Sci-Fi Reality Check
What Hollywood gets right — and wrong — about tomorrow.
The lane's charter
Films and shows imagine futures faster than engineers can build them — and reading the gap between the two is more useful than worshipping either side. This lane is for taking sci-fi seriously as a thought experiment, then checking the math. Where did Blade Runner nail it? Where did Star Trek hand-wave physics? What does Iron Man's JARVIS actually require? We bring receipts and respect.
In the queue
- The Matrix simulation argument — what is actually verifiable
- AI in film vs. AI in life — what every Hollywood AI gets wrong
- Faster-than-light: why physics says no and why the dream persists
- The arrival problem — what makes contact actually hard
- Cyberpunk's accuracy gradient — Blade Runner to Black Mirror
Reports incoming
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