Re: Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 3
 

It's not the ability to teach people that's problematic, it's the ability to teach people while they're asleep, in their dreams. The human brain doesn't really work that way.

Re: Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 3
 

How does it work?

Re: Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 3
 

A lot isn't known about dreaming (though there is some reason to suspect it's basically a form of garbage collection), but responsivity to outside stimulus is definitely not a part of the sleep package, and teaching is outside stimulus.

Re: Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 3
 

I'm happy to believe that better writing technology makes writing faster - this here PC is a bit quicker than a quill pen, I think. But it'll only make it better in the sense that it's possible to revise and polish a bit more in a given period (which will be somewhat necessary anyway, because writing faster makes it tempting to jot down any old tosh as a first draft and polish it later).

Eventually, one may get expert systems software that can revise and polish the text acceptably by itself. But then, you're using the program's Writing skill, not the human author's.

Any time the PCs have to attempt a burglary or an ambush, they'll be faffing about bouncing weird sound effects and shaky snatches of conversation off walls and ceilings, trying to distract their opponents (and sinking into bad practical jokes along the way). Trying to impersonate opposing senior officers will probably be especially popular (as will fart gags, with some groups). Of course, this shouldn't work too well, at least after a while, but things will get noisy and messy at times.

No problem with advanced education software. Handwaving sleep/REM time into learning time is another matter.

Mutable points totals are a red herring here - though even if that's the rule in use, it shouldn't mean "PCs have ever-accelerating points totals because they've minimaxed the learning system with the aid of some dubious new fictional technology". The problem is that idea that time spent dreaming is nothing but wasted potential learning time.

I don't know exactly why people dream; I don't think that anyone does right now. But the best evidence seems to be that it's a defragging process in which the mind sorts out its memory storage, or at least some sort of rest time. Interrupting that to jam yet more stuff into memory strikes me as a quick way to drive the subject barking mad.

Re: Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 3
 

(Hm...a skill set with 8 points in Writing (Editing)...)Looks more like simple inventiveness the GM didn't anticipate to me.Whoa now, "red herring"'s fightin' words in Teh Internets. Still, I was cramming in a second argument. My point was that getting an extra point every 12.5 days (an extra 29.2 points/year should that much game time elapse) doesn't seem unbalancing considering the hardware and software requirements (1K here, 3K there add up), and that characters can get other advantages will skills or cash.I stand newly informed. I'll have to look into dream research sometime. (Still, a pity about dream teaching though.)

Re: Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 3
 

For those without sleep disorders, you mean?
Sleepwalkers react to outside stimuli, usually illogically.
I happen to have an unusual degree of "sapience" when sleepwalking. As in I respond accurately to questions, show no awkwardness in movement, and often times others don't know that I'm asleep until the next day.

Re: Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 1
 

And do you remember what you did while sleepwalking and what people said to you? Just wondering.

Re: Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 3
 

Which, y'know, makes a good plotline.

Re: Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 1
 

No, because that would be called being awake. Though if not, then how would I know that I'm not asleep right now?
I just wanted to refine the discussion beyond a simple response to outside stimuli, and rather to intelligent comprehension AND memory of said stimuli.

Re: Notes on Using GURPS Ultra-Tech (4e) in TS: Chapter 1
 

I'll disagree with this part, since it seems to me like you could be asleep and remember stuff (to varying degrees) that people tell you. Though perhaps that's medically impossible.