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Muse inheritance

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Tue, 2010-09-07 21:48

root

Muse inheritance

root@Muse inheritance [hr] What would it be like to use someone else's muse? I imagine that you could change the muse's settings so that it doesn't adapt itself to the new person using it. You would have a library of someone's personality, as seen from the inside. I would like a whole set, please, just line up all of my favorite thinkers' muses, and I'll learn a whole new way to think. Then, after I had put on my favorite muse's like really cool hats, I would be very sad that Aristotle and Sun Tzu didn't have muses. [hr] EDIT It occurs to me that you could build muses that help people follow a chosen philosophy. If you take a stack of a particular thinkers work, or a stack of subjects in a particular field of philosophy, you could design a tutor muse. I imagine this so called "tutor muse" would gently suggests alternatives to a particular action that are more in keeping with the philosophy they represent.

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Wed, 2010-09-08 00:43

icekatze

Re: Muse inheritance

hi hi Although most people have a personal muse that has a emotionally intimate relationship with them due to its omnipresence since a young age and general helpfulness, I believe it is possible to have more than one muse. I could see fans of some famous star or another trying to get a copy of so and so's muse. If muses can feel frustration and annoyance though, having to serve someone else without adapting would be mega annoying to the program. Guide muses bring up an interesting philosophical issue, a sort of who's running who problem. I remember reading a reasonably good sci-fi book where the nobility of the setting were the only people who had muses and it gave them an edge in just about everything. When one of them gets theirs damaged they become erratic and paranoid because they don't know how to make certain decisions on their own. There was a fun irony that the black sheep of the noble family was so pathetic compared to his brothers in part because he did not have a muse, but that was also the trait that made him the only one capable of succeeding the throne. After all, selfish humans didn't want a machine deciding the affairs of state.

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Fri, 2010-09-10 09:47

Sepherim

Re: Muse inheritance

Probably, using someone else's muses would be quite frustrating: continually playing music you may not like, bringing up news items modified in which you are not interested, allowing some spam you are bored of to get through... and meanwhile, not playing your music, nor bringing the news you'd like to know, or allowing the spam you are interested in... I think that what may be used in order to get to be "inside the thinker's brain" would probably be skillware and such kind of tutors, that once the lesson is over they can be turned off.

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Fri, 2010-09-10 12:14

sndwurks

Re: Muse inheritance

I would agree with the general thought that using someone else's muse would be very frustrating. Take, for example, when you sit in a car. You have to adjust the seat, the mirrors, the steering column, the radio station, and the AC. And that's just a car. You can leave the car. A person in EP's society genuinely cannot think of leaving their muse, or even turning it off. Turning it off would potentially be even worse than dealing with someone else's. In addition to that, the muse is such an intimate part of a ego's interaction with the world that to allow someone to take a copy of it might actually be more akin to taking a delta fork of someone. This is why you can use a fork of someone else as a basis for a muse, but it is still a very intimate experience. With that being said, I feel the concept of a Tutor Muse or Guided Muse would be something with a market niche. Keep in mind what genuinely advances available products are two factors: Need and Opportunity. There has to be a possibility of something for it to be developed, and a desire for it to become available. I could genuinely see skillware available to be downloaded into your personal muse (with a back up of said muse kept from before the skillware) in order to instruct or guide an ego in a particular course. I would even argue that this is something that muses are designed to do already. For example, you become interested in being more tactically minded, specifically in the area of personal combat and bushido. Your muse learns this, and seeks out reputable and accurate information to help you think more along the lines of that philosophy and martial skill. It analyzes stances, letting you know who is armed, and inserts philosophical bits from Musashi when it feels you would find it appropriate. It would naturally question you when you act contrary to your previously stated intentions, and can assist you in forming the right habits. I see muses very much as a combination of your own personal Alfred and Snuffleupagus. They're your imaginary friend that is always there to help you be the most you can be. And sometimes, other people can see them too.

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Fri, 2010-09-10 13:30

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Re: Muse inheritance

You know an authoritarian regime could use regulation of muses to insert coding in them to act as government informants, or to filter the news they receive like your own personal MiniTruth. Quash thoughts of doubt or rebelion, castigate someone for not being willing to sacrifice to the cause. I thank my lucky stars that no government power in our world has the power to get in my head. But if your mind is software, they can change it.

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