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  • Commented on We'll all go together when we go
    Ludvig Holberg 64: . . . Why do SF iron dreams so rarely have their wonderful teleportation networks programmed by the likes of Microsoft? . . . Or like the "technocore" in Dan Simmons' Hyperion? Beware AIs bearing gifts!...
  • Commented on We'll all go together when we go
    Ludvig Holberg 14: [P]retty easy to off the first few billion of us, . . . but to off the last few thousands, not so much. So we would bounce back, bust and boom, obviously with some characteristic selected...
  • Commented on A game of consequences
    Read about James Fallon, a neuroscientist who discovered in his own research that he is a psychopath. There is also "M. E. Thomas" (a pseudonym), a self-aware high-functioning sociopath who wrote Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding...
  • Commented on A game of consequences
    We do have methods to make people more radioresistant. . . I'm kind of surprised that after 200+ comments the Usual Suspects haven't weighed in to point out that in a few decades we'll have AIs (not as in...
  • Commented on A game of consequences
    A thousand people on Mars by the middle of this century looks quite possible, on current developments. (Elon Musk just set a deadline for the first boots on the Red Planet: an unmanned Red Dragon landing in 2018 with...
  • Commented on A game of consequences
    So some sort of medical system for mitigating sociopathy is a likely part of the package. (Think in terms of a brain implant designed to replace or augment the underdeveloped amygdala behind the symptoms of sociopathic behaviour. Or whatever...
  • Commented on Nom de Teleport
    148: Stephen king used 'Jaunt' as well Yes, that was a nasty little story. Risk of teleportation as bad or worse than "The Fly". The business about having to be asleep also turns up in King's "The Langoliers"....
  • Commented on Nom de Teleport
    You know, http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw143.html ("All About Teleportation", by John G. Cramer) also claims: "Teleportation is nothing new in the literature of religion. . . Not to be outdone, the Quran describes the phenomenon of Tay al-Ard (folding the Earth), in which...
  • Commented on Nom de Teleport
    1: ...You step into the source, the interior of the two spheres are made quantum identical, and when they cease to be identical there is a 50% chance you have arrived at the destination. That reminds me of Gilbert...
  • Commented on The present in deep history
    Remember R. Crumb's "Short History of America" and its two possible outcomes? History: http://i.imgur.com/h1D5Qo3.jpg Two possible futures ("worst case" vs. "techno-fix on the march"): http://yuriartibise.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/The-future-according-to-Robert-Crumb.jpg...
  • Commented on The present in deep history
    Assume you are a historian in the 30th century, compiling a pop history text about the period 1700-2300AD. What are the five most influential factors in that period of history? Off the top of my head (and without having...
  • Commented on In defence of Traditional (Eurocentric Quasi-Medieval) Fantasy: #1 I'll read what I like
    Clever people with loud views on genre often forget that most of us consume books in the ragged gaps in our lives - on a train or bus to work, while watching over a sleepless baby, or just before...
  • Commented on The Ultimate Tech Frontier: Your Brain
    74: Pedantic nit-pick here: Please pardon a couple of even more pedantic corrections to the otherwise excellent capsule oS history. ;-> UNIX. . . was basically written by Ken Thompson as a hacker toy on a spare PDP-8. ....
  • Commented on The Biggest Little SF Publisher you never heard of pulls on the jackboots
    267: I've been trying to understand the driving forces behind this. . . Everyone, in some way, wants to count, to matter. . . But it's much harder to count in today's world. . . Result is people take...
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