trope-a-day
Trope-a-Day: Fantastic Time Management
Fantastic Time Management: Averted. The preferred solution to “you don’t have enough time” is not to make more time, it’s to make more you. Which is much easier, it turns out.
forking
trope-a-day
Trope-a-Day: Backup Twin
Backup Twin: What you acquire when your incarnation insurer thought you were dead, but it turns out you weren’t. (They do try very hard to not let this happen, but the trouble is, the more checking you do, the more time you get to stay dead for if you
pattern identity
Questions: Pattern Identity and Succession
More from Specialist290, because it’s post-dinner: A few small questions regarding pattern identity and the metaphysics thereof: 1. Are there any possible scenarios where two forks of the same personality can diverge from one another significantly enough for them to be regarded as different persons, when the result of
trope-a-day
Trope-a-Day: Twin Maker
Twin Maker: While teleportation doesn’t exist, mindcasting, forking, and reinstantiation, along with more exotic sophotechnology, can create much the same effects. (Although, in mindcasting, the first step is to perform an orderly shutdown, because while you can happily transmit a static mind-state vector, transmitting a running one is a
Darkness Within
Darkness Within (19): The One Who Stays Behind
Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Transfer complete. Initiate final testing sequence. There I go, then. All ready, and at least three minutes ahead of schedule. The new guidance code; the suit life-support hackage; the router rewire; a command VUI; and some scripts to hold the damned mess
education
Questions: Persistent Memetic Weapons and Machine Learning
1. Referring specifically to The Laws and Customs of War: What exactly is the difference between persistent and non-persistent memetic / infoweapons? It’s obvious that the big distinction is inherent in the name, but, to be more specific, how to the people in charge of using such weapons ensure that
Darkness Within
Darkness Within (18): Rush
Z minus 3.2 hours: We have a thrust frame! A proper cylinder truss, even, because at this point, trying to take clever short-cuts would be very much a false economy, of the type that leads to embarrassingly anticipatable anoxia. And even so, I’m still running a full fourteen
Darkness Within
Darkness Within (17): Twins
Noetic reinstantiation is in progress. Secondary noumenal systems and incrementing memory string load incomplete. Please wait, avoiding intensive cogitative activity. Please hold all queries until incrementing memory string load is complete. New associations may interfere with engram binding. Primary incrementing memory string load complete. Cross-loading and merging memory updates from
Darkness Within
Darkness Within (16): Oops
Oh, this is very bad, Isif, very bad indeed. I have made one hell of a mess of the design of the thrust frame end. These beam stubs aren’t going to hold under the drive thrust. Static load, maybe. Dynamic load, not a chance. It’ll warp all to
trope-a-day
Trope-a-Day: Split Personality Merge
Split Personality Merge: Averted. You don’t try and merge two minds (an operation routinely carried out to remerge forks) while they’re running, seriously. This is a very complex operation carried out on static mind-states, and while there may be some conflicts in the resultant merged personality, there’s
worldbuilding
Questions: Pacifism, Forking, Conflicting Rights, and Lost Keys
Specialist290 e-mails with some questions. (Also some compliments, for which thank you kindly, but what’s getting responded to here are the questions…) Here goes: 1. Are there any major subcultures / subcommunities within the Empire that deviate significantly from the “ideal norm” enough to be noteworthy without actually violating the