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Benevolent Precursors: Not the historical examples so much, mostly because within delta of none of them actually expected to become Precursors, belike, putting them firmly in the Neglectful box by default. But, y’know, who plans on their own extinction? (While also not planning on achieving the vanishment part of
Leviathan Consciousness
Memeweave: Threats and Other Dangers/Perversion Watch/Open Access Classification: WHITE (General Access) Encryption: None Distribution: Everywhere (Bulk) As received at: SystemArchiveHub-00 at Víëlle (Imperial Core) Language: Eldraeic->Universal Syntax From: 197th Perversion Response Board Gentlesophs, Given the high levels of uninformed critical response to our advisory concerning handling
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Benevolent AI: …ish. Which is to say that AIs in the Eldraeverse aren’t programmed to be benevolent, merely to be ethical. (Because enforced benevolence is slavery, belike.) That being said, they often – indeed, typically – turn out to be quite benevolent anyway, simply because they’re socialized that way, i.
Leviathan Consciousness
“We meant it for the best.” If this Board had a quantum of miracle for every time that phrase has been used in the aftermath of some utter disaster, we might even have enough to produce that alchemy which transmutes benign intentions into benign results. But probably not. From the
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Bazaar of the Bizarre: Floating Markets, mostly, especially those where a relativist clipper or lugger turns up. Agglomerate enough free traders together, and you get a market where you can find anything, or if not anything, someone who probably can tell you where to find anything. Including most of the
Iltine Union
The figure clinging to the side of People’s Security Observation Platform Number Three would have been barely noticeable even to a careful observer. The ambioptics of his chameleon cloak, whose electrostatics held it still and in position against the satellite’s hull, perfectly reflected the appearance of that hull
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Barbarian Tribe: The term “Interstellar League of Tribal Chiefdoms” was not intended as a compliment, nor was it given with any degree of irony. Also, given their views on, say, the sanctity of contracts, the personal defects of people with authoritarian tendencies and the systems they produce, etc., even before
meta
I’ve been taking a moment or two today to futz with Ethereum, which is – as the site puts it – “a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts”. I mention this as something that might be of interest to Eldraeverse readers, since if you squint very, very hard when you look
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Baleful Polymorph: While a transfer and not a polymorph, there are certain distinctly not-nice people who find it… amusing… to upload their captured enemies’ minds into, say, their tropical fish rather than just keep them in dead storage, if it turns out they might be useful later. Although, really, spending
habitat
[an excerpt from] A Contract Written Under the Fundamental Contract and the Seal of the Guild of Formal Obligation, And in Accordance with the Traditions of the Stellar Empire, Between and Among: First Distributed Exclavine Republic (Holdings), ICC, their successors, or assigns, hereafter the party of the first part, and
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Badass Longcoat: Ah, yes, the traditional garb of the adventuring classes, not to mention the more… rakish of the free traders. Whether it’s a duster or a greatcoat, it looks cool, contains plenty of Hammerspace even without exotic technologies, can conceal any amount of discreet gadgetry within the fabric,
worldbuilding
[Regarding this] So what happens in those cases where a soph finds that their qalasír demands them to do something that goes against the Fundamental Contract? (More specifically, what’s the moral obligation in those cases where their only possible choices are “Commit an unspeakably heinous crime” and “Repudiate your