10-07-2014, 01:52 PM | #11 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Cydonia
|
Re: Transhuman Space in Infinite Worlds
Quote:
|
|
10-07-2014, 01:54 PM | #12 | |
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
|
Re: Transhuman Space in Infinite Worlds
Quote:
If your environment is very noisy, then transmission gets slower, but space-to-space paths that don't go close to the Sun should allow at least a tenth of you theoretical bandwidth. |
|
10-07-2014, 02:05 PM | #13 | ||
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
|
Re: Transhuman Space in Infinite Worlds
Quote:
Quote:
Last edited by johndallman; 10-07-2014 at 02:15 PM. Reason: tm |
||
10-07-2014, 08:44 PM | #14 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Idaho Falls, Idaho
|
Re: Transhuman Space in Infinite Worlds
Aren't at least two of the Zone Minds focused on Space - One SETI focused and one paranoid about alien invasion?
If so, then one of them may catch site of a engine lite anywhere except the far side of the sun. |
10-10-2014, 02:33 PM | #15 | |
Join Date: Dec 2004
|
Re: Transhuman Space in Infinite Worlds
Quote:
Not that I care much for them -- I do think that removing the ability to beam SAI or LAI Shadows to Mars to stand in for you at a symposium is a cool idea -- but it is your game and you shouldn't be grilled on how it works. Another good answer -- Sure, you can beam an AI using advanced error correction to Mars, but do you really want to tie up a transceiver for multiple hours/days/weeks/etc to ensure that the error detection and correction algorithm has sufficient bits to ensure the AI makes it to Mars in one piece. It may be more economical to just send the computer housing the AI to Mars in that case. |
|
10-10-2014, 02:56 PM | #16 | ||
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
|
Re: Transhuman Space in Infinite Worlds
Quote:
How about THS(Hard) and THS(Soft) as names for these styles? Quote:
Consider your reaction to this argument. If it's meaningful, you're tending to the THS(Hard) style, if not, then not. |
||
10-10-2014, 03:22 PM | #17 | ||||
GURPS FAQ Keeper
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
|
Re: Transhuman Space in Infinite Worlds
Quote:
Quote:
Hardware-based robots are not a thing in THS, and trying to enforce all AIs (and Ghosts) to be hardware robots will break the setting in ways that take tens or hundreds of pages to analyse and summarise. Quote:
|
||||
10-10-2014, 03:38 PM | #18 | |
Untagged
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
|
Re: Transhuman Space in Infinite Worlds
Quote:
An easier way to reach the same goal is my idea of not thinking mass suicide for zero reason is good or legal. That would make ghosts a bit rarer, but I refuse to believe many healthy sane humans would up and kill themselves for any ideology. Also I like pushing singularities further into the future to avoid depressing, as I see them, settings. I want an upbeat THS darn it.
__________________
Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check. |
|
10-10-2014, 03:42 PM | #19 |
Untagged
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
|
Re: Transhuman Space in Infinite Worlds
Even using terms like hard and soft would lead to even more sub-bickering.
We should have a list of defining features. Of the top of my head these stand out as major features: Advanced near perfect medical/genetic tech, novel species creation, bioroids, uplifts, Ghosts, S.A.I.s, terrarformed Mars, Gas planet He3 mining, Fusion power, massive space presence, 3d printing of nearly all materials...
__________________
Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check. |
10-10-2014, 03:52 PM | #20 | ||
GURPS FAQ Keeper
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Kyïv, Ukraine
|
Re: Transhuman Space in Infinite Worlds
Quote:
'Commute' has a different meaning to an Infomorph than to a meatperson. Plus, on the metagame level, forbidding infomorph PCs to have the definitive infomorph trait - Possession - is kinda mean. Quote:
And yet I want an upbeat THS darn it, without vaguely-justified superstition disguised as quantum mysticism. (I do have an idea of a setting where mysticism does coexist with transhumanism, but I call it Reign of Souls, not THS.) |
||
Tags |
infinite worlds, transhuman space |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|