03-29-2024, 12:20 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-29-2024, 12:22 AM by totos_totidis.)
With regards to the dumbo article, I would remove this sentence entirely:
"Ultratech is defined as ultra-advanced technology that can nevertheless be built, used and understood by modosophont tech-users"
Instead, I would add a hyperlink to the word "ultratech" in the first sentence.
Aside from that it is generally good. Here is the draft with minor changes (mostly grammatical):
Dumbdo is 'Dumbdowned tech'; ultratech that can be used by an untrained human baseline (or equivalent) without risk.
In most cases, this technology has been developed by transapients or archailects first, but this is only because such advanced entities can work much faster when developing new scientific concepts, applications, and working designs. However, the basic principles can be understood and used by modos, even though this may take a considerable amount of training, skill modules, or comprehensive tachididaxy.
However, 'dumbdo' tech is designed to be used safely by an untrained (and not necessarily responsible) human baseline, or any other modosophont with a similar level of sophistication. Dumbdo tech typically has a fool-proof and fail-safe user-friendly interface, so that the untrained user cannot cause harm to themself or to other individuals (and usually, they cannot cause significant property damage, unless they have permission to do so). Sometimes a piece of dumbdo will simply cease to operate if asked to do anything dangerous or destructive.
Some types of dumbdo come complete with integrated skill modules, so that an untrained user can quickly download the operating instructions and necessary skills; this is known as 'augie dumbdo' and allows a user with a direct neural interface to use a piece of unfamiliar ultratech. Technology that is safe to use without an interface [a DNI] is sometimes known as 'duh dumbdo'.
[Perhaps instead of writing “direct neural interface”, DNI could be used, assuming a hyperlink is provided]
Foolproof and failsafe technology with user-friendly control systems is commonplace in the Terragen Sphere and can be found in hi-tech and middle-tech levels as well. Indeed, ease of use by any untrained sophont is a desirable characteristic at all levels of technology.
The ultimate aim of any clarketech hunter is to find transapientech that can be used safely by anybody, even a fool; but this sort of 'clarketech dumbdo' is vanishingly hard to find, and often is far more dangerous than it appears.
"Ultratech is defined as ultra-advanced technology that can nevertheless be built, used and understood by modosophont tech-users"
Instead, I would add a hyperlink to the word "ultratech" in the first sentence.
Aside from that it is generally good. Here is the draft with minor changes (mostly grammatical):
Dumbdo is 'Dumbdowned tech'; ultratech that can be used by an untrained human baseline (or equivalent) without risk.
In most cases, this technology has been developed by transapients or archailects first, but this is only because such advanced entities can work much faster when developing new scientific concepts, applications, and working designs. However, the basic principles can be understood and used by modos, even though this may take a considerable amount of training, skill modules, or comprehensive tachididaxy.
However, 'dumbdo' tech is designed to be used safely by an untrained (and not necessarily responsible) human baseline, or any other modosophont with a similar level of sophistication. Dumbdo tech typically has a fool-proof and fail-safe user-friendly interface, so that the untrained user cannot cause harm to themself or to other individuals (and usually, they cannot cause significant property damage, unless they have permission to do so). Sometimes a piece of dumbdo will simply cease to operate if asked to do anything dangerous or destructive.
Some types of dumbdo come complete with integrated skill modules, so that an untrained user can quickly download the operating instructions and necessary skills; this is known as 'augie dumbdo' and allows a user with a direct neural interface to use a piece of unfamiliar ultratech. Technology that is safe to use without an interface [a DNI] is sometimes known as 'duh dumbdo'.
[Perhaps instead of writing “direct neural interface”, DNI could be used, assuming a hyperlink is provided]
Foolproof and failsafe technology with user-friendly control systems is commonplace in the Terragen Sphere and can be found in hi-tech and middle-tech levels as well. Indeed, ease of use by any untrained sophont is a desirable characteristic at all levels of technology.
The ultimate aim of any clarketech hunter is to find transapientech that can be used safely by anybody, even a fool; but this sort of 'clarketech dumbdo' is vanishingly hard to find, and often is far more dangerous than it appears.