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    Thread: The Second Oldest Profession
Post: RE: The Second Oldest Profession

If it happens at all, it is likely to fall into one of two categories: a) Transapient/archai level methods and tech vs Transapient/archai level methods and tech - in which case modos are little mor...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 1 25 Today, 06:31 AM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

Have read thru the text in Post #66 and reviewed the posts prior. First and foremost, somewhere along the line the revised article draft from Post #58 became distorted (See Post #65 - specifically the...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 Yesterday, 11:04 PM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

Avengium Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:57 AM) -- I have created an article based on what I have understood from this conversation. -- Hrm. In future I would really appreciate it if you would allow me at le...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 Yesterday, 02:41 AM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

Avengium Wrote: (09-05-2026, 04:03 AM) -- Yes. This has helped a lot. It clarifies for me that the topic of Turing beings and all this topic is more related to toposophy and the problem of consciousn...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 Yesterday, 02:23 AM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

Avengium Wrote: (09-04-2026, 04:15 AM) -- If we do away with the concept of ‘grade’, then we avoid questions such as ‘what grade is it, and what other grades are there?’. -- Agreed. While having di...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 09-04-2026, 10:50 PM
    Thread: Handheld cellular automaton
Post: RE: Handheld cellular automaton

JohnnyYesterday Wrote: (09-04-2026, 02:52 PM) -- tasp Wrote: (08-22-2026, 01:45 AM) -- Now updated. (https://orionsarm.com/eg-article/4615a9579043b) Credit to Prox for inspiring the image caption  :...
Drashner1 Art and Visual Media 11 120 09-04-2026, 10:00 PM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

Re replacing the current use of 'turingrade' across the EG - this is possible but would be a major find and replace effort (also needing to include 'turinggrade' and 'turing grade' based on the check ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 09-04-2026, 02:45 AM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

Tostar Wrote: (09-03-2026, 03:55 PM) -- My intuition is that an intelligent AI (which for now, I'll leave vague) would use some sort of spiking neural network (more specifically, many networks linked...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 09-03-2026, 09:36 PM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

A new version, addressing some issues that I'm seeing in the prior one. Changes are in bold. Comments below. A sophont AI of toposophic S:0. In the vast majority of the Terragen Sphere, and across ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 09-03-2026, 09:22 PM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

Actually, the feedback from Borklord was that the second sentence, not the second half of the first sentence, read weird and should possibly be moved. The current change makes the issue worse, I think...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 09-03-2026, 03:45 AM
    Thread: Conversion Drives [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Conversion Drives [Rewrite]

Liam Wrote: (09-02-2026, 04:36 AM) -- You could just laser a hole in the battery. Or you could charge it the point of overload, adding that last 1% until it explodes. Or, since I think OA will have t...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 14 225 09-02-2026, 10:57 PM
    Thread: Hello humans (and non-humans)
Post: RE: Hello humans (and non-humans)

Hi There - Welcome to OA! Aww - It's so nice when someone remembers to include us others in their greeting. :D Somewhat more seriously - please feel free to join in on any discussions that grab ...
Drashner1 The Arrivals Lounge 4 260 09-02-2026, 12:15 AM
    Thread: Technosome, Nanosome, Nanochondrion, Cytobot
Post: RE: Technosome, Nanosome, Nanochondrion, Cytobot

So, I gave the latest draft a read-thru. From a content/canon perspective I think it's very cool and works great. I also saw maybe only one spot where I felt the urge to reword a sentence or phrase fr...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 17 201 09-01-2026, 10:51 PM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

Ok, let's start taking a whack at this. Starting with Turingrade AI. Current text is below: An ai of baseline human-equivalent intelligence and sophonce. Also known as a TTP (Turing Test Passing) e...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 09-01-2026, 10:24 PM
    Thread: Rudolani, the tapeworm-like xenosophont from distant stars
Post: RE: Rudolani, the tapeworm-like xenosophont from d...

Just looking in on this quickly.... While doing so I see mention of these beings employing things like reactionless drives. Per OA Canon, reactionless drives cannot be invented below the level of F...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 21 361 08-31-2026, 10:19 PM
    Thread: Solarism Timeline Fix
Post: RE: Solarism Timeline Fix

HennaPerson Wrote: (08-24-2026, 10:44 AM) -- Here’s the (hopefully) final timeline, hopefully I haven’t missed anything. 2130: The Network of Light is followed by 45% of the orbital population of ...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 18 195 08-29-2026, 09:19 PM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

Avengium Wrote: (08-27-2026, 07:58 AM) -- I believe we could retire the term (or the old definition of) "superturing" from its current usage if we so choose, but I think it has potential (not as "int...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 08-28-2026, 10:24 PM
    Thread: Conversion Drives [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Conversion Drives [Rewrite]

Ok, and with time to respond properly now... Liam Wrote: (08-27-2026, 03:48 AM) -- I expect the superconductors batteries would be fairly robust. The ultimate tensile strength of graphene is conse...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 14 225 08-27-2026, 11:03 PM
    Thread: Conversion Drives [Rewrite]
Post: RE: Conversion Drives [Rewrite]

Liam Wrote: (08-27-2026, 03:48 AM) -- (Regarding conversion-powered jet engines, there seems to be a contradiction here. The conversion micro-reactor is said to have a power output of 20kW. By compar...
Drashner1 Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles 14 225 08-27-2026, 05:30 AM
    Thread: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definitions
Post: RE: Turinggrade, Superturing - Creating Definition...

So, my prior post shook loose some additional notions right after I posted it. These are a bit more subject specific, so I've decide to post them separate rather than edit my earlier post to add them ...
Drashner1 General Setting Discussion 68 936 08-26-2026, 11:00 PM