ethics
Praxis
Why aren’t artificial intelligences programmed for honesty and loyalty? So that they may be honest and loyal. - Cyberethics in Koans, Airil Konohana
Alistair Young
Core War
Following The Money
From: TorĂno Lanada (Economic AttachĂ© [Vonis Prime Mission], Diplomatic Attachment WG, Active Operations PWG, Second Directorate) Memeweave: All-Seeing Eye/Voniensa Republic/General Cc: Intentions Analysis PWG Subject: Shell colony economic anomaly Authenticity: 4E11; SENDER, RELAY (4/4), RECIPIENT Security: EYES ONLY ORANGE ICE SHADOW Distribution: Executive & Analysts Date: 7142
esklav
Haz Beans
Neither somewhere you can visit, nor even somewhere you can see up close – it being found deep within a restricted system – it would nonetheless be remiss to omit Ă“mĂlarith, the 14th moonlet of the gas giant Bunker (Arvael IV), in the Palaxias (Imperial Core) system. It should be obvious from
Blood Cheques and Bullets
Selectivity
The Habtech’s Peace referred originally to an agreement brokered between the various mercenary companies engaged on each side during the months of drift-habitat fighting that characterized the latter phase of the Black Web War, and continues to refer to similar agreements (again, usually between mercenary groups) up to the
odocorp
Give Way
“Okay, let’s go over how the traffic priority controls work. You can up-priority by paying a small fee, with a promise to pay more if your higher priority becomes relevant. The fee goes to us, the later charges to every vehicle that’s inconvenienced by yours. Or you can
floating market
They Also Sell Anti-Shame Drugs
ATTENTION, SHOPPERS! CUSTOMER CONFIDENTIALITY IS NOT GUARANTEED BUT MAY BE PURCHASED AS A RANGE OF AFFORDABLE OPTIONS Hush (ExV. 16) No-one will be told that you were here, but your information will be retained in my records. Shopper? I Hardly Know Her! (ExV. 256) I will forget that you were
neuralware
Induced Startup Dysphoria
Most bionic implants are designed to be controlled by simple mental commands in the same way as natural body parts; originally by painstaking training of the sensory and motor cortices to recognize the device and its functions, and in more recent times by engraving neuralware device drivers into the augmentee’
worldbuilding
Parallelism
It’s about divergences in computer technology — Or in other words, some conversations elsewhere have made it evident that it would be useful to have some of these things out here for discussion, and since this is going to involve comparisons to Earthling ways of doing things, it’s going
Imperial Merchant Navy
The Glittering Web
Red-Gold Routes: A Red-Gold Route, taking its name from the common practice of coloring the territorial volume of the Empire gold, or gold-bordered, and that of their satrapies and client states shades of red on political maps is, in definition, a long-distance route used by the the Imperial Merchant Navy
worldbuilding
Thematics: Delicious Ideals
Herewith some thoughts on thematics, inspired by today’s quest for matcha-flavored Pocky, a fine and delicious product of the Ezaki Glico Company, Limited. I observe, on their corporate web site, the slogan “Pocky is about sharing happiness and bringing people together.” And I observe introspectively just how very much
automation
Infrared Emission, Too
warmbody: a career that exists in certain “economically quirky” parts of the emerging markets, the warmbody – also sometimes known by the unusual sobriquet “rent-a-squishie” – reflecting an unwillingness to accept the realities of industrial magic and need to preserve “traditional” employment at all costs. From the corporate perspective, warmbodies serve to
HarĂşnet (Promegi Matrix)
Blood Included
A phenomenon ever worthy of note is how much the overall culture of the Worlds has been shaped less by the direct influence of the Great Powers, or indeed by their cultures in themselves, but rather by misunderstandings of those cultures, in which others grasp the surface forms but not