do forks have access to the original's muse?
how about when sleeved in another morph?
or is there a copy of the muse that goes with the fork?
can you fork your muse?
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Muse-ical Forks
Mon, 2011-11-14 12:02
#1
godmoney
Muse-ical Forks
Mon, 2011-11-14 13:34
#2
Yerameyahu
Re: Muse-ical Forks
Only if you give them that access. Usually, you're making a fork on purpose, and a fork does not include programs (Muses or otherwise).
Typically, you would supply a sleeved fork with a muse (of some kind). IMO.
You can copy any program, AFAIK, including muses.
You're basically asking the equivalent of, 'do forks get clothes?' :) Naturally, they get whatever you give them, including possibly identical clothes.
Mon, 2011-11-14 19:43
#3
Thantastic
Re: Muse-ical Forks
Regarding forking your muse, the answer depends entirely on your muse. If we're talking a program, then you can copy and copy and copy the program as many times as you want and have equipment to run it. Bearing in mind that most muses are pretty weak ais and are designed to keep your calendar, perform basic social networking, etc, it's highly unlikely that multiple copies would be much better than one as they would respond to things in very similar ways and would likely be trying to access and work with the same data sets.
If you're talking about using a more advanced ai that is able to react and change much more broadly and quickly, or you have another ego acting as your muse than yes, you can fork them as you could any ego. Those adhering to multiplicity memes often use forks of themselves as muses (sometimes even full alphas running in a ghostrider) or share a single muse to help coordinate the efforts of a particular collective or the like.
Why stop there, though? Maybe have a whole chorus of muses or forks that are designed to have certain viewpoints and guide you through life. Ask Professor Nbeke if you're behaving in a logical manner. What does mom really think of your new significant other? What is the mufti's feeling on how you should orient yourself during daily prayers on this station and if you should adopt the local timing model? Maybe you have a permanent comm channel to your corp's dream factory and can poll 10,000 egos in storage for quick focus groups on your next xp script. Crazy go nuts...you can never have too many voices in your head.
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Tue, 2011-11-15 07:15
#4
Xagroth
Re: Muse-ical Forks
Thabtastic, just a thought here: you cannot go around with more than one muse unless you have the processing power for that (ectos or ghostrider modules), or the habitat's mesh admins will have something to say about "resource consumption" assigned to one user ("Frank, what's that about having 15 copiees of your muse running in the local mesh around you? Do you know that means 15 citizens in infomorph state that cannot enter this mesh' cluster? Don't you have any consideration at all?" And reputation loss... or a fine in credits...).
If you get one ghostrider module (or one set of ectos) per muse or fork, then there is no problem... as long as you copy your muse or you are using some Open Source AI. Should you be on PC space, however, making copies of anything but your muse can be more complicated (DRM, copy protection, intellectual property, licenses...).
As for the muses doing the same thing... the thread is about giving a fork of yourself a copy of your muse (and I assume the muse won't need psychosurgery or suffer mental derangements derived from being forked XD). By its own definition, a fork of a character is a copy that will behave like the original (but that will be affected by different stimuli, thus diverging and changing), so we could say that diversification of opinions is not the objective (and the muse would slowly diverge too).
Tue, 2011-11-15 12:37
#5
Thantastic
Re: Muse-ical Forks
Hi Xagroth, I did mention the concern in running multiple muses - very briefly, however - in commenting "provided you have hardware to run them". Your expansions about the problems and possible consequences is spot on and a very good consideration to bear in mind.
I may not have been clear in my setup, but the final comments were more for ways to expand the basic idea of the thread about the wide variety of options that are available (also filled with potential for good, ill and mental trauma) for sharing one's head beyond the standard muse. No threadnapping intended, just a flash of my bias in favor of exploring the huge and challenging array of possibilities with forking, multiplicty and individuality.
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