Oceans Yet to Burn

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

@slartibartfastibast quoting others

“That’s when a friend of mine stumbled over a footnote in an esoteric army report about simulator sickness in virtual environments. Sure enough, military researchers had noticed that women seemed to get sick at higher rates in simulators than men. While they seemed to be able to eventually adjust to the simulator, they would then get sick again when switching back into reality.”

In the future, all women are autistics on testosterone, and the global GDP per capita exceeds $120,000.  Conventional gender as we know it has dissolved and been replaced by a neurotype inventory dynamically read from the global hypergrid.  The largest political bloc is controlled by a rocky alliance between the National Globalists, the Post-Salvation Abrahamic Spiritualists, and the Small Animals subreddit.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[sirlorence]

wew lad

[ranma-official]

god i wish that were me

[mitigatedchaos]

VR Render of Tumblr User @ranma-official and friends in Sapporo Maid Cafe Nyanout Chillground, Hypergrid Node 17-Alpha (Monochrome, 2058)

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[historicaltimes]

Night spear fishing in Hawaii, 1948. Fishermen made torches out of kukui nuts wrapped in leaves on top of a lamaku, a large torch made out of the midrib of a coconut leaf.

via reddit

[jumpingjacktrash]

you can’t fool me that’s a lanternfish

[another-normal-anomaly]

This is transhumanist.

[slartibartfastibast]

No. Toolmaking is just humanist. Transhumanism is a fantasy genre that looks like hard scifi to people autistic enough to think the no-cloning theorem couldn’t possibly apply to consciousness.

[mitigatedchaos]

I mean, Transhumanism isn’t just upload civilizations.  It’s also robot arms.

And we already have robot arms, so it’s likely just a matter of time before they exceed regular arms.

Singulitarianism, on the other hand…

[slartibartfastibast]

Robot arms are still specialized. Only human arms are generalized. We must embark on a quest for AGA. Artificial general arms.

MIRI will of course join the effort. I wonder what the combined acronym should be.

Also, rocks are artificial specialized arms. They do more damage when you hit people with them.

[mitigatedchaos]

Look man, all I’m saying is that we can totally add cybernetic tails to Rationalist catgirls, and it’ll only take, like, one aug slot, tops.  Only 0.1% chance of a feedback loop overloading the central nervous system and causing a blackout.

So I’m gonna need you to back my Neko no Shippo kickstarter in 2033.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[argumate]

there’s like anime and then there’s anime

the former is animated storytelling and the latter is weaponised nominally female hyperstimulus

I think I even say the two words slightly differently

[mitigatedchaos]

but what if one is a weaponized, nominally-female hyperstimulus, eh? eh?

you can’t deny their identity like that, Argumate!  people have a right to purchase bodies with enormous breasts, oversized eyes, tiny waists that would snap an ordinary human woman in half, and megathighs.  and how can anyone say that the moe-moe set of personality and quirk/behavior templates is invalid?  some people have that as their natural personality, or were raised in moe no otaku cultures like Neo-Kyoto.  what about their rights?  

and what about survivors of the Second Gate communities that are rebelling against the hard restrictions from there?

some people?? are anime girls?? to cope???

don’t be so insensitive

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[argumate]

got an iron pan, see if it can free me from the tyranny of teflon.

modern consumerism prefers the smarts to be baked into the product, so instead of learning new skills or gaining experience (personal growth!) you just upgrade your life by purchasing a better model.

so far this process still fails to work for some product categories: no matter how good the knife you have to know how to sharpen it, and no matter how good the pan you have to know how to season it, or be consigned to a succession of disposable items, which is the flip side of purchasing upgrades: binning the old stuff.

[argumate]

to clarify I am absolutely terrible at these things; frankly if you could purchase competence online with one-click checkout I would be incredibly pleased

[mitigatedchaos]

DO NOT EVER PIRATE SKILL SOFTWARE

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS 

Yes, good man, always make sure you purchase skill software legitimately, and cryptographically signed directly from the vendor.  Further, the deeper your implants and the deeper you run the software, the more important it is that it isn’t compromise.  People like to think of it as just a tool, but when you run skills, it becomes part of you.

I know people call me paranoid, but I only ever run skill software in standalone mode.  It’s good security practice to only interface with networks externally, too, and neuro-gap components.  Your mind is a fortress and it’s best not to leave holes in the walls.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

Look, all I’m saying is that while it isn’t a matter of systematic oppression for each man to prefer that his girlfriend get the purring augmentation, if the vast majority of men have a strong preference, this creates a powerful incentive gradient in which any women who don’t will risk a greater chance of loneliness.

Just because popular VR personas use it now does not justify getting an expensive cybernetic implant, especially since it didn’t really hit the big time until about five years ago.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[slartibartfastibast]

COED MMA WHEN?

[mitigatedchaos]

North American Mixed Martial Arts Neo-Georgian Light Cyborg Division Semi-Qualifier here. Mostly no co-ed fights until the availability of enhancement evens out the PWR post-war, but the VR stuff before that is plat. Ofc the physical fights are dominated by combat software, but they look spectacular.

[slartibartfastibast]

Galactic blob of brain tissue vs. Cube of computronium.

[mitigatedchaos]

Don’t be like that man, you know the hardware is neuromorphic, and even if the kinetic subcomponents are more carefully engineered, the abstract reasoning has to be grown, and the whole thing has to adapt to the user’s body and integrated with the subconscious. A finely-honed Combat Reaction System is a work of art and I will not have you in this blog if you disagree.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

Anonymous asked:

What informs your software? What hidden undergirdings are you afraid to look at? In what ways is your IFF calibrated, and by whom? You still have a human heart under there, with a human history.

I have three hearts, anon-san - a primary heart, a secondary backup heart, and an emergency oxygen recirc system for my braincase.  My combat software can continue fighting in excess of 30 minutes even in the event of total loss of consciousness, with a banshee switch in the event of brain death.  (And yes, I know that firmware modification is illegal.)

Besides, to even get the K-band neurotype designation, my brain is mostly human, I just have a few specialized submodules.  Partial-synthetic, not full, and so only subject to limited sanctions under the Human Dignity Act.

Don’t be so worried, Anon.  I’ll be fine.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

[lsleofskye]

Contemplation (Part I)

[mitigatedchaos]

I used to work for the company that made these.  Ours were very realistic, which is good, since you can only get the real ones bred in captivity, and unlike our synthetics they’ve been known to attack humans.

This appears to be a Busan Life Dynamics (competitor) model, which you can tell because of the coloration on the feet.  My employers preferred to go with somewhat less natural (though still subtle) visual ‘upgrades’, since the typical customer can’t tell the difference between a real tiger and a synth tiger and thus wants “undamaged” footpads with uniform coloration.  Busan also used about half the hair count we did, so ours were a lot softer, but that’s a comfort issue rather than an appearance issue.

[Oceans Yet to Burn]

@the-grey-tribe

Please remind me to not give @mitigatedchaos any formal power if I ever become King of The World or something. Maybe I can bestow a purely ceremonial title like First Lady of The Republic of Cascadia or Vice Antipope. Grand Ideas should be kept in their ivory towers where they belong.

@argumate

I dreamt I was a superhero could fly etc. but I kept getting captured and killed by gangsters so I got irritated and started pushing a drug decriminalisation slash harm reduction program to destroy their business and I got so bored I woke up so I guess they won this round