Ceiling Probe Is Watching You
The outer surface of your light-cone is a monument to all your sins.
- Ebirax 0x8002626D, Clairvoyance-class far horizon probe
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Cultivation
Despite centuries of terrible research by terrible people, sophotechnology has not provided either protein or machine intelligences with any viable technique to sandbox evil. Istar Essenye, wakener
Quotables I
(Random things said with no other place to go, so I shall save them and post them in eights from time to time.) Good, in the moral sense, is difficult and may be impossible to define objectively. I prefer to concern myself with ethical correctness, which is at least calculable.
Unmilitary Posture
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Si Vis Pacem, Pacem Fac
They call me a warmonger? Then they are correct. Pacifism in the face of evil is concession to Entropy; therefore I mong war. Therefore it is the policy of this branch to mong war. And therefore we intend to go on monging war until the last tyrant in the universe