The following is in reply to a post on the Orion's Arm Worldbuilding List
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The following is in reply to a post on the Orion's Arm Worldbuilding List |
You seem to have "watered down" the baseline humans to make the "advanced" capabilities of the transapients manageable to us. The transapients are still there, the gap between them and the baselines is still there, but the baselines are a bunch of bumbling fools.
reply 1:
Well, I think we might be identifying with the wrong people by concentrating on the baselines; only a small proportion of worlds have populations of low-tech baselines; the rest will be middletech and hi-tech. Imagine a modern human with a DNI interface allowing em to access a search engine and any number of skill overlays as required- partial uploads of other peoples skill complexes-
These people will be capable of fantastic feats in the mental stakes without breaching any s-levels.
I think in fact the near-baseline and the su-human are the people you would be most likely to meet in your average OA polity.
reply 2:
I strongly disagree with you here. Baseline (in the sense of nearbaseline/ordinary sapient) humans are, in OA, incredible. They've got the bodies of Schwarzenegger, the minds of Einstein, Tchaikovsky, Keynes, and Turing all merged together, gadgets that'd make Batman green with envy, etc.
They're amazing, in other words, from our 2004-point of view!
However, the SI:>1 crowd are beyond that. They're quite literally incomprehensible! They're beyond my comprehension, at least.
reply 3:
No, just the opposite!
The average "baseline" (or plebhu, or neb) in Y10K is smarter, healthier, stronger, more creative, and more psychologically sound, than the average H. sapiens sapiens today
In fact by today's standards the average citizen of the Civilized Galaxy would be definitely a Homo superior! (thanks to millennia of gene tweaks, subtle metabolic and symbiotic bionano enhancements etc etc) See also the above comments on this (and this applies to OA nebs mind you, the guys at the bottom of the toposophic food chain, not even OA superiors!)
Related Pages:
Humans and Transapients - replies to the objection that the analogy of the relationship between humans and transapients as being like the relationship between amoebas and humans isn't applicable
