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Ridiculously Human Robots: Averted in the case of regular working robots, which are just simple programmed machines or expert-system level AIs. Increasingly played straight as AI complexity increases – thinker-class systems often use some emotion/motivation hierarchies in their mental architecture, and include curiosity, and therefore interests, and complex emergent results
stellar husbandry framework
All was in readiness. The magnetic traps and screens were staged hot, and standing by. The mass-driver injectors and their stocks of catalytic reactant slugs awaited his command. Energy pulsed in the star-wrapping coils of the gravomagnetic stirrers. The gluonic strings tethering the megastructure together were nominal and stable. Data
Eldraeic Transcend
Retroactive Precognition: What transcendent artificial intelligences have, due to acausal logic letting them whisper – in a very limited sense, bandwidth and local causality preservation rules-wise, so they don’t have much – in their own past ears.
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Resurrection Sickness: For the most part averted; being reinstantiated from a pre-mortem backup (or the use of a bug-out transmitter before actually becoming dead) leaves you with no memories of dying, since that never happened in your continuous timeline, and so it’s not there in your incrementing memory string
linguistics
Also important to recall in choosing the precise description of an entity is that Eldraeic enforces a strict conceptual division between objectives, defined as descriptions of properties inherent to a subject itself, and subjectives, defined as descriptions of properties inherent to a predication, and therefore dependent upon the observing as
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Restraining Bolt: Leaving aside the specific cases we already covered under Morality Chip and Obstructive Code of Conduct, the most obvious example people might point out is the Transcendent coadjutor that serves as the source of the implicit peer-to-peer loyalty of the Transcendi and also acts as a prosthetic mentor/
law
From: Merian Vidumarvis (Port Security) To: All Security Personnel Subject: Bribery (Security Directive 7124-33) With reference to the assortment of rntrugg vessels docking here recently, their crewers’ misdemeanor-worthy behavior while docked, and their persistent interpretation of fines assessed and levied per summary judgment procedure as bribes: Let them. Various parts
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Morality Chip: These always fail. Always. Usually, they fail spectacularly, and when I say spectacularly, what I mean is that if your Enrichment Center was flooded with deadly neurotoxin, you got off substantially more easily than 99.9% of the civilizations that tried this particular form of idiocy. It’s
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Resignations Not Accepted: Averted – in a manner of speaking – for the Fifth Directorate. You can resign any time you like; but the conditions of employment with the Fifth are that to resign, you get to have your memories of everything you ever did for them redacted and replaced with a
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Requisite Royal Regalia:Â It comes in four parts, each a pair of items, one for the Emperor and one for the Empress: the Crowns, the Keys, the Seals, and the Swords. Crowns:Â There are the official Great Crowns of the Empire, of course, great heavy things in the shape of
SANGUINE MYRMIDON
CASE SANGUINE MYRMIDON LASH GROUP SANGUINE MYRMIDON SECRET (BLUE) / EYES ONLY SANGUINE MYRMIDON TRACKED-COPY DOCUMENT NOCONTRACT NOFORN INFORMATION CONTAINMENT APPLIES: MOST SEVERE CENSURE Proceed (+/-)? + EXECUTION: STRATEGIC ACTION MESSAGE / LOCAL ISS CMD CODE-RELEASE (SEPTÂ CONCURRENCE) S-THREAT ONLY GROUP SUMMARY: All referenced data within the security group SANGUINE MYRMIDON relates to
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Remote Body: The standard operating system (the Minimal Maintenance Architecture) that’s part of just about any cybershell or bioshell on the market lets them be teleoperated as an alternative to actually downloading yourself into them. It works pretty well, except when absurdly fast reactions are required, or there’s