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06-14-2011, 07:09 PM | #31 | |
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Re: Consequences of Racial Intuitive Mathematician and Eidetic / Photographic Memory?
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Take the Manhattan Project as an extreme short duration/high intensity tech advancement project. It wwas a group project but it was a group of the most talented physicists and mathematicians of The US (and thanks to you know who) most of Europe. Considering the populations of the time that makes a Manhattan Project principle scientist a 1 in 1,000,000 to 1 in 100,000 find. If you want to find enough Project scientists from a population that is less than hundreds of millions you need to make the type much more common among the general population. A workable assumption is that raising the middle of the bell curve from (for example)10 to 12 moves the IQ14-16 types you need (anybody want to start an arguemnt about how high Richard Feynman's Gurps IQ was?) for top level projects from 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 10,000 or maybe even less. There are multiple ways to get to the Skill-18+s you need but I'd rate an education system that routinely turned out such types as ^. <shrug> Maybe SuperSocialScience is what you want. I wouldn't sweat the IQ bonus on Templates thing. It';s just a way of telling players that if their character's IQ is less than that he'll be considered kind of dim.
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06-15-2011, 02:36 AM | #32 | |
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Re: Consequences of Racial Intuitive Mathematician and Eidetic / Photographic Memory?
While I wouldn't deny Genesis' contention that in less well organized ages individual cleverness brought about much progress, that is not the way I see IM/EM types helping technological advancement. Like Fred Brackin pointed out, these people are not clever. They are master organizers, but can do no better than humans at inventing stuff.
And, looking at human history, we can see that most progress was made when the societies it was made in were economically prosperous. If Newton had had to toil in the fields to keep from starving, he would be lost to science. The Sirkin could do a great deal to make prosperity obtain, giving the human populace (and their own) room to produce geniuses. I can't help but see them as facilitators of progress, rather than as motors of it. Quote:
I'm really sorry, Molokh, but even if TLs don't move up more quickly, Sirkin optimizing stuff means more people and a smaller world. I see no way to avoid that.
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06-15-2011, 04:18 AM | #33 | ||
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Strictly speaking, there's not much preventing anyone from playing a Sirkin pilot, or mechanic, or soldier. At worst they will have to offset Oblivious, and 'waste' 10 points on EM and IM. In fact, I plan to make Justicariate's soldiers few but nasty (scroll down to see ideas on J's army), due to being picked by Friend Computer and trained and modified from childhood. |
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06-15-2011, 04:23 AM | #34 |
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Re: Consequences of Racial Intuitive Mathematician and Eidetic / Photographic Memory?
Well, progress as a way to improve quality of life while having limited resources might be a solution. As in, quality over quantity. Roughly speaking, making some stuff easier to produce, but still not giving the ability to produce more of it. Think of the mythology behind the mighty Lakota Katana - 'They had very little steel, so they learned to make the best of it, crafting swords which were as good as 20 of our swords, and kept their edge for generations!' (this is of course an exaggeration).
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06-15-2011, 04:29 AM | #35 | |
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Well, I'm not totally opposed to interconnections, just don't want to see everybody unite. I'm hoping to separate the cultures in such a way to produce (by TL9ish) roughly the following groups:
I'm totally okay with the Sirkin being mistreated in the 'backwards' Nariyása states after TL6. But I'm not sure how common they will be in the more civilized cultures/states, and how they should/would be treated. I certainly don't want them to be too common there. Quote:
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06-15-2011, 06:50 AM | #37 | |
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