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    Thread: Vernor Vinge's death
Post: RE: Vernor Vinge's death

Yeah, it's incredibly upsetting. Maybe it would be nice to do up a short tribute for him - nothing much, maybe a hab named after him
kingofthemerdz3 Real Life But OA Relevant 3 218 03-21-2024, 11:21 PM
    Thread: Vernor Vinge's death
Post: Vernor Vinge's death

Jesus, just found out on Twtter - and confirmed on Wikipedia - that Vernor Vinge is dead. Vinge, as is well known, popularized the notion of the Singularity
kingofthemerdz3 Real Life But OA Relevant 3 218 03-21-2024, 04:04 PM
    Thread: Idea for a new clade
Post: RE: Idea for a new clade

Yeah, I've been mulling over your helpful feedback. I think I'll write up an EG article draft when I'm free in a while, plug up all those holes
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 9 163 03-19-2024, 04:32 PM
    Thread: Idea for a new clade
Post: RE: Idea for a new clade

I've been doing some writing :p  Quote: -- By the 4470s, the Krashnor system was a hotbed of Keterian thought, both orthodox and heterodox. Of particular influence were the virch-essays of the...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 9 163 03-13-2024, 10:06 PM
    Thread: Idea for a new clade
Post: RE: Idea for a new clade

Drashner1 Wrote: (03-10-2024, 10:11 PM) -- We aren't generally much fussed by 'necroposting' around here (at most it might get you a 'please start a fresh post on this ancient topic if you want to di...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 9 163 03-12-2024, 10:49 AM
    Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: RE: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the ...

Drashner1 Wrote: (03-10-2024, 09:52 PM) -- Interesting speculations, but I'm honestly not clear on what you want us to do with them. Ultimately, any consideration of the 'future' of Terragen Civi...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 13 132 03-12-2024, 10:36 AM
    Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
Post: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terr...

Suppose, just suppose we could peek in at the Terragen sphere at these few points:  Y20k, another 10k years after the "now" point of Orion's Arm Y1m, about a million years after the present a...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 13 132 03-10-2024, 02:55 PM
    Thread: Idea for a new clade
Post: RE: Idea for a new clade

(I hope this doesn't become a necro - sorry, mods, in advance), but I think that I would really like to get this off the ground again, after so many years. It's been seven years but it's better to be ...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 9 163 03-10-2024, 02:14 PM
    Thread: Memories
Post: RE: Memories

omega_tyrant Wrote: (03-07-2024, 08:52 AM) -- What about Jonathan "Trip" Daniels? Was he confirmed 10,000, or just rumored? -- Do you think that Trip Daniels makes sense as a canonical character ...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 12 142 03-10-2024, 01:59 PM
    Thread: Proposed Edit for Archailectual Mysticism Article + My Draft
Post: RE: Proposed Edit for Archailectual Mysticism Arti...

Drashner1 Wrote: (03-09-2024, 12:16 PM) -- Given that none of us are followers of mysticism of the sort the article seems to be talking about AFAIK, I think a better approach to this (and also one mo...
kingofthemerdz3 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 26 441 03-10-2024, 01:16 PM
    Thread: Memories
Post: RE: Memories

Drashner1 Wrote: (03-06-2024, 11:10 PM) -- kingofthemerdz3 Wrote: (03-06-2024, 07:18 PM) -- One solution I came up with is that after a while, a nearbaseline might just decide that they would rather...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 12 142 03-08-2024, 02:19 PM
    Thread: Post-Gaian planets
Post: RE: Post-Gaian planets

I wonder how likely is it for a Garden World to "die naturally" for totally biological reasons eg. some nonsapient xenobiont evolves that ends up recreating some version of the oxygen catastrophe, but...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 4 73 03-06-2024, 07:22 PM
    Thread: Memories
Post: RE: Memories

One solution I came up with is that after a while, a nearbaseline might just decide that they would rather just retain their old memories as long as they can retaining their mind-tissue. Suppose we ha...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 12 142 03-06-2024, 07:18 PM
    Thread: Go Edify Yourself
Post: RE: Go Edify Yourself

Here is a more unusual set of choices Nonfiction Intelligence and Spirit, Reza Negarestani War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel Delanda A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, Manuel ...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 22 1,464 03-06-2024, 07:12 PM
    Thread: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA
Post: RE: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA

stevebowers Wrote: (03-04-2024, 01:26 AM) -- John B's contributions were mostly humorous, bordering on the cynical; he created most of the entries in the Ghost Net, for instance. I'm fairly sure this...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 5 52 03-04-2024, 12:18 PM
    Thread: Hello everybody - ancient user here
Post: RE: Hello everybody - ancient user here

Also, I'm Francis Kafka on the OA Discord if anyone wants to ping me there
kingofthemerdz3 The Arrivals Lounge 4 890 03-04-2024, 12:52 AM
    Thread: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA
Post: RE: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA

Avengium Wrote: (03-03-2024, 11:00 PM) -- Expanding the topic on Philosophy and creating more philosophy articles, to me is a good idea. -- Yeah, very. There's also the occasional error: look at th...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 5 52 03-03-2024, 11:12 PM
    Thread: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA
Post: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA

Something I've been turning over is what philosophy in the Y11k era (and the intervening years) might look like. It's not like philosophical considerations are necessarily alien to OA, with libertaria...
kingofthemerdz3 General Setting Discussion 5 52 03-03-2024, 09:58 PM
    Thread: Hello everybody - ancient user here
Post: RE: Hello everybody - ancient user here

Worldtree Wrote: (03-03-2024, 12:17 AM) -- Hi! Welcome to posting here :) I think We have about  1-15 posts, and discussion here every day, depending on how busy we are in the rest of our lives -...
kingofthemerdz3 The Arrivals Lounge 4 890 03-03-2024, 12:12 PM
    Thread: Hello everybody - ancient user here
Post: Hello everybody - ancient user here

Hi guys. I was a huge fan of OAUP, it was a real influence on me about 8-9 years ago, and in the meantime I've really really really wanted to contribute to OAUP, but I've never really sat down to... I...
kingofthemerdz3 The Arrivals Lounge 4 890 03-02-2024, 11:10 PM