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Cultivation
Despite centuries of terrible research by terrible people, sophotechnology has not provided either protein or machine intelligences with any viable technique to sandbox evil. Istar Essenye, wakener
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Quotables I
(Random things said with no other place to go, so I shall save them and post them in eights from time to time.) Good, in the moral sense, is difficult and may be impossible to define objectively. I prefer to concern myself with ethical correctness, which is at least calculable.
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Unmilitary Posture
Perhaps they would have been more successful had their god spent more time teaching them how to stand, rather than how to kneel. Gen. Cassian Amarens, 13th (“Winter Wolves”) Imperial Legion, after the final assault on Firital
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Si Vis Pacem, Pacem Fac
They call me a warmonger? Then they are correct. Pacifism in the face of evil is concession to Entropy; therefore I mong war. Therefore it is the policy of this branch to mong war. And therefore we intend to go on monging war until the last tyrant in the universe
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Give It Time
This is a little pastiche of Plutarch on Alexander the Great that I hacked together as a brief illustration of attitudinal differences. I like it enough to share it: “Alphas smiled when he heard from his astronomers that there were billions of worlds in the heavens; and when his friends
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Ceiling Probe Is Watching You
The outer surface of your light-cone is a monument to all your sins. - Ebirax 0x8002626D, Clairvoyance-class far horizon probe
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Today's Quotations
We are, undeniably, tool-using creatures. Eldrae sómintár. More, we are undeniably creative creatures, builders and makers – eldrae mahavár – who build in order to have tools, and have tools in order to build. An endless cycle of creation. Observe, too, the lesser Flames: the problem-solving ingenuity of the bandal, the hunting
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Automated Deathlist Management
“The only truly automatic weapon is one which you can leave on the shelf and ignore entirely henceforth, only to occasionally hear about your enemies mysteriously dying.” – “To Sleep, Perchance To Kill”, Ostár Sargas-ith-Sargas
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Apposite Quotation
Today’s this-very-much-belongs-in-my-universe, courtesy of Borderlands 2 and a New-U station: “If any idiot ever tells you that life would be meaningless without death, Hyperion recommends killing them.”
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Snippet: A Pulp Moment
(Here, have a Robert E. Howard pastiche.) “Know, O prince, that between the years when your ancestors brought the last of Eliéra’s shining cities beneath their aegis, and the years of the rise of the Thirteen Worlds beyond the Gates, there was an Age undreamed of, when gleaming habitats
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