FORKING. While under most circumstances – and where full dividuals are concerned – it is always correct to treat each and every fork of a given person as that person, as indeed will be the case after their remergence, there are certain special rules of etiquette that apply to the forks in
Asskicking Equals Authority: Played somewhat straight with the kaeth and their… kinesthetic leadership style, but subverted if you pay attention to the various underlying cultural mechanisms that ensure that asskicking gravitates towards the likely-to-be-competent-authorities.
“If you’ve come here to save the Galaxy, my innocents,” I said, “if you’ve come here with the illusion that you can save the Galaxy, or even so much as one single world, leave here right now. Cross the road, find the recruiting office, and join the Navy.
Ass In Ambassador: Sometimes – rarely – but usually intentionally. Which is to say, usually when dealing with those states who keep insisting that the Empire should, y’know, punish people for exercising their freedom of speech, or extradite people for committing something that no-one there would recognize as a crime, or
Ascetic Aesthetic: Used in a few types of places: Unprogrammed virtual reality, as a baseline to build on. Areas principally given over to industry or other automation, where simple, polished geometric shapes, curves, and suchlike (see: Alien Geometries) work well for the local AI; they don’t care about the
Public Exclusions Citizen Oversight Group to Melqar Riffym, greetings. Citizen-Shareholder Riffym, We at the Public Exclusions COG have been monitoring your reputation and meta-reputation scores (underlying data provided by the Exuberance Monitor COG [link]) for some time now. Are you aware, citizen-shareholder, that your amalgamated meta-reputation score is one of
A is for Antimatter, the Sun in a Jar. It powers the ships that carry us far. B is for Bactry where little makers live. All the world’s built on the feedstock they give. C is for Cornucopia the Creation Machine. Assembling atoms to plan making real every dream…
Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Not generally considered to be a result of uploading, even though by many standards becoming an infomorph might qualify. On the other hand, it arguably is what happens slowly over many people’s lifespans as they adopt more and more cognitive enhancements, take
SO-0004: Imperial Admission Procedures SO-0004 Rev. 4611.2.5 — UNCLASSIFIED [ This is an official document produced by the Logarchy of Engraving, Printing and Stationery on behalf of the Office of Foreign Wanderers and the Ministry of State and Outlands. It is considered public information under the Transparency Act (Revised) (4106)
Artificial Intelligence: Well, while the term in-universe is rather more all-encompassing, the fictional trope is defined as meaning those systems which are sentient (gah, damn you badly written science fiction!), self-aware, and capable of independent thought and reason. Those ones, they call digisapiences. And there are a heck of a
Artificial Human: Lots of them (well, not humans), historically – for a while in the historical period in which biotech was moving faster than digital sophotech, there was quite the fad for constructing “bioroids” – vat-grown (not generally being equipped to be self-replicating) “meat robots”, without volition/threshold autosentience and therefore without
Nobody overslept this morning. That’s because my bed didn’t wake me up. Of course, then the lights were painfully bright when I did wake up, my kitchen served my morning esklav weak as dishwater, and the morning newspaper, when I picked it up, was showing nothing but a