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Thread: Re-imagining the Sophic League
Post: RE: Re-imagining the Sophic League
| I know I don't post here much, but I am actually very strongly against taking away the spirituality and religion focus of the Sophic League. It's what makes them unique and interesting. I'd rather see... |
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General Setting Discussion
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07-27-2023, 06:29 AM |
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Thread: What controversies do modos argue about?
Post: What controversies do modos argue about?
| I noticed just now that I can't think of any major sources of ideological conflict in the Terragen Sphere. There's various different transapient-promulgated ideologies, but to be honest, they all seem... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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04-04-2023, 11:56 PM |
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Thread: You've ascended to the 1st Singularity, what will you do now?
Post: RE: You've ascended to the 1st Singularity, what w...
| It's hard to predict what an S1 version of me would do, of course, but I disagree that it's impossible. Presuming my values remain intact, then besides all the things I can't even come up with to do y... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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07-31-2022, 12:16 AM |
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Thread: Few questions about uploading.
Post: RE: Few questions about uploading.
| I'll definitely work on that! Note, something I just realized: as my earlier vehement kneejerk reaction shows, I consider PIT to be not just "objectively" false, but *morally wrong*; whereas, I imagin... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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07-23-2022, 02:23 AM |
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Thread: Virtual travel and identity
Post: RE: Virtual travel and identity
| To resurrect this again since it was mentioned in the uploading thread: as a continuity identity person myself, I would actually do something I don't think has been suggested here: if a distant locati... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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07-23-2022, 01:55 AM |
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Thread: Few questions about uploading.
Post: RE: Few questions about uploading.
| I strongly agree with this! |
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General Setting Discussion
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07-20-2022, 04:34 AM |
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Thread: Few questions about uploading.
Post: RE: Few questions about uploading.
| I didn't ask for you to change it. I just am annoyed that everyone assumes it is correct. If OA was different it wouldn't be OA, after all! But I really need to learn to stop shooting my mouth off. |
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General Setting Discussion
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07-19-2022, 12:43 AM |
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Thread: Few questions about uploading.
Post: RE: Few questions about uploading.
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Regarding theories of identity: it doesn’t make sense to talk about them being correct or right. Identity is a social construct, the two different theories are two different w... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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07-19-2022, 12:07 AM |
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Thread: Sagawa Corp (formally Sakawa)
Post: RE: Sagawa Corp (formally Sakawa)
| *bump* - this doesn't seem to have ever been finished - the article is not updated - but it looks very interesting! |
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syzithryx |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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07-17-2022, 02:04 AM |
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Thread: Megacorps update
Post: RE: Megacorps update
| Whatever happened to this version of the Megacorps rewrite by Drashner? I think it had some good ideas:
https://www.orionsarm.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4798&pid=60131#pid60131
It might fit wi... |
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syzithryx |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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07-17-2022, 01:20 AM |
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Thread: Why is OA such a niche community?
Post: RE: Why is OA such a niche community?
| One thing I've considered trying to do is write a bunch of flash fiction stories / vignettes, of around a thousand words each, set in relatively "normal" events of the lives of various (embodied) soph... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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07-15-2022, 10:22 AM |
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Thread: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
Post: RE: The Ascendancy: Second Draft
| This is fantastic. It reminds me a lot of my own vision for what the future should be. Particularly the "Tyranny of Mortality" and "Tyranny of Objectivity", which are very close paraphrases of philoso... |
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syzithryx |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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06-29-2022, 08:17 AM |
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Thread: Topic Update - Groupminds
Post: RE: Topic Update - Groupminds
| I think "acausal groupminds" should be called "stigmergic groupminds". Stigmergy is indirect communication and coordination by means of modifying data structures in the environment - like ants using p... |
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syzithryx |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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06-22-2022, 10:34 AM |
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Thread: An opened ended thread on how OA inhabitants answer questions about group minds
Post: RE: An opened ended thread on how OA inhabitants a...
| How exactly is a transapient *different* from a hive mind? It seems to me like it is the same thing, just purposefully organized and usually composed of modified copies of one individual, rather than ... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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04-11-2022, 08:48 AM |
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Thread: Self-provolution seems like it should be a thing
Post: RE: Self-provolution seems like it should be a thi...
| Well, the main way humans differ from other apes is our large neocortex, which neurologists suspect is just a bunch of processing units performing the exact same function in massive parallel - a funct... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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08-17-2021, 12:40 AM |
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Thread: Self-provolution seems like it should be a thing
Post: Self-provolution seems like it should be a thing
| I've always thought that the most natural method for provolving any species would be having members of the species do it themselves. I don't mean in the sense of handing off control of the provolving ... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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08-16-2021, 07:33 AM |
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Thread: (Deep breaths) "Clades", limitations and possible solutions
Post: RE: (Deep breaths) "Clades", limitations and possi...
| I've always assumed clades are simply composites of mindtype and culture, with common ancestry (biological and cultural), who tend to choose to live in particular bodies traditionally associated with ... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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08-16-2021, 07:07 AM |
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Thread: To Be 'Immortal' in Y11k
Post: RE: To Be 'Immortal' in Y11k
| One idea I've had is that there might be a subculture dedicated to much slower personality change, wherein people keep backups of prior versions of themselves, making a new one maybe once a year, or o... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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01-02-2021, 09:19 AM |
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Thread: What do property rights in the Terragen Sphere look like?
Post: What do property rights in the Terragen Sphere loo...
| I'm aware that each polity must have its own laws about such things, but I'm asking more abstractly about how people in the civilized galaxy think about the idea of property, what variety of views the... |
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syzithryx |
General Setting Discussion
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12-27-2020, 01:52 AM |
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Thread: Quanta article implies making something like comms wormholes in a laboratory!
Post: Quanta article implies making something like comms...
| https://www.quantamagazine.org/wormholes-reveal-a-way-to-manipulate-black-hole-information-in-the-lab-20200227/
I can't say that I fully understood this, though I know a lot of the references (such... |
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Real Life But OA Relevant
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11-19-2020, 12:15 AM |
