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Thread: What music are you listening to right now?
Post: RE: What music are you listening to right now?
| I've been listening to some Chappell Roan. Not my usual but I like it |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Off-topic Discussion
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06-03-2024, 11:06 AM |
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Thread: Most wanted
Post: RE: Most wanted
| I presume though that there's more crime in the Outer Volumes, in isolated colonies and the like |
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General Setting Discussion
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04-07-2024, 01:32 PM |
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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 |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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03-21-2024, 11:21 PM |
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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 |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
Real Life But OA Relevant
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03-21-2024, 04:04 PM |
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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 |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-19-2024, 04:32 PM |
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Thread: Idea for a new clade
Post: RE: Idea for a new clade
| I've been doing some writing :p
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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... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-13-2024, 10:06 PM |
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Thread: Idea for a new clade
Post: RE: Idea for a new clade
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Drashner1 Wrote: (03-10-2024, 10:11 PM)
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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... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-12-2024, 10:49 AM |
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Thread: What's the likely long-term trajectory of the Terragen Sphere?
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Drashner1 Wrote: (03-10-2024, 09:52 PM)
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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... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-12-2024, 10:36 AM |
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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... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-10-2024, 02:55 PM |
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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 ... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-10-2024, 02:14 PM |
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Thread: Memories
Post: RE: Memories
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omega_tyrant Wrote: (03-07-2024, 08:52 AM)
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What about Jonathan "Trip" Daniels? Was he confirmed 10,000, or just rumored?
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Do you think that Trip Daniels makes sense as a canonical character ... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-10-2024, 01:59 PM |
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Thread: Proposed Edit for Archailectual Mysticism Article + My Draft
Post: RE: Proposed Edit for Archailectual Mysticism Arti...
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Drashner1 Wrote: (03-09-2024, 12:16 PM)
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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... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
Encyclopaedia Galactica Articles
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03-10-2024, 01:16 PM |
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Thread: Memories
Post: RE: Memories
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Drashner1 Wrote: (03-06-2024, 11:10 PM)
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kingofthemerdz3 Wrote: (03-06-2024, 07:18 PM)
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One solution I came up with is that after a while, a nearbaseline might just decide that they would rather... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-08-2024, 02:19 PM |
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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... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-06-2024, 07:22 PM |
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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... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-06-2024, 07:18 PM |
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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 ... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-06-2024, 07:12 PM |
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Thread: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA
Post: RE: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA
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stevebowers Wrote: (03-04-2024, 01:26 AM)
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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... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-04-2024, 12:18 PM |
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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 |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
The Arrivals Lounge
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03-04-2024, 12:52 AM |
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Thread: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA
Post: RE: History of philosophy, xenophilosophy in OA
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Avengium Wrote: (03-03-2024, 11:00 PM)
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Expanding the topic on Philosophy and creating more philosophy articles, to me is a good idea.
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Yeah, very. There's also the occasional error: look at th... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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03-03-2024, 11:12 PM |
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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... |
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kingofthemerdz3 |
General Setting Discussion
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