Torren Moon Incident
âYes,â said the forensic eschatologist. âYour crippling techniques all appear fully operational. Your screening talkers have detected no basilisks or dangerous memetic payloads, and neither have the people screening them. Your emergency-wipe protocols show no sign of tampering, your network links show no anomalous traffic, and there is no present
worldbuilding
First, the note, which is regarding Fan. As I commented over on G+: So, the worst part is, I wrote this partly because it seemed like a good application of the words, and partly because it was an idea stuck in my brain that needed to be written down so
recommendations
Thinking briefly of things other than todayâs challenge, Iâd like to draw the attention of interested readers to the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfic Friendship is Optimal. (Trope page here; story here.) Specifically, with relevance to the Eldraeverse where seed AIs are concerned. Namely, inasmuch as
trope-a-day
Holy Is Not Safe: Anything made, shaped, or Vorlon-touched by a weakly godlike superintelligence may be holy, but is also very likely to be powerful enough to be catastrophically dangerous if misused, mishandled, or otherwise generally mucked about with. (Especially things like, say, the Eye of ElmirĂĂŤn, which is to
Voniensa Republic
Cor Trialtain Voniensa Republic (somewhere in the Shell) âIt will work!â âIt wonât,â VanĂr min Athoess replied, âand youâll probably get everyone on this planet killed trying.â The younger of the two kalatri leapt to his feet. âI thought you were here to help people like us! Now
seed AI
ââŚand asked them their wish. So the lovers told the Unwise GenAI that they needed neither goods nor gift, and that all they wanted was to live happily ever after and love always. And the Unwise GenAI said, âBy your command,â and bade his servants seize the lovers and place
trope-a-day
Scale of Scientific Sins: All of them. Absolutely all of them. Automation: Of just about everything, as exemplified by the sheer number of cornucopia machines, AI managers and scurrying utility spiders. Unlike most of the people who got this one very badly wrong, however, in this Galaxy, almost no-one is
trope-a-day
Pieces of God: Played straight if unusually in an entirely non-supernatural way â inasmuch as the Transcend is a cross between a regular seed AI and a collective consciousness of synnoetic AI soul-shards (see: Touched By Vorlons) grafted into the minds of all of its constitutionals. So while the greatest concentration
seed AI
The ultimate test of a civilizationâs ethics and morality is to program them into a recursively self-improving AI seed, fire it up, and still exist a year later. We strongly recommend not attempting to pass it.