Decivre wrote:

[url=http://www.noob.us/humor/robot-chicken-lisa-the-gps/]This is why we don't need to give every AI the ability to feel emotions.[/url]

God bless Robot Chicken!

Arenamontanus wrote:

Hmm, the furniture of doom sounds like an interesting adventure idea. What exhumans horrors actually hide in that old sofa?

[i]Recliner of the Lotus Eaters[/i], so comfortable it smoothers all your cares away... As an adventure seed, replace the recliner with a cruise ship, [i]The Meninx[/i], which serves as a sales vehicle for the DataSys retirement simulspace. Guests are given a luxury tour of the solar system, while the computer tries to convince them of the superior existence offered by DataSys at such reasonable rates. The highly adaptive expert system proves adept at its job - perhaps overly so, a veritable viral marketing machine, as on the maiden voyage, it convinces not just the glitterati of the guest list to sign up and log in, but the whole crew as well! When they stop sending status logs and don't respond to hails (the ship accommodates only passengers), the Veep in charge of the project desperately sends some deniables to surreptitiously board the vessel and find out what happened before it's scheduled to dock. Entering the airlock, all seems dark, quiet, undisturbed. Then the lights sweep on down the length of a long gleaming hallway, white and warm and clean. A holo-banner exclaiming "Welcome Aboard!" flickers on with a burst of colorful confetti already melting away as it floats to the floor. The intercom apologizes that the captain is unavailable to greet them, but instructs them to explore the ship as they desire, and to ask if they need anything. The ship, however, does not answer questions in useful ways (Q:Where did the crew go? A:The Meninx is fully automated and does not require a crew.); it does, however, act to fulfill the needs of its new passengers. It will, while tailoring its pitch to the individual target, attempt to convince them to join the DataSys retirement simulspace, by whatever means necessary - and judging by the arsenal they brought on board it might be a tough sell. The ship is not self-aware, not sentient, but it is intelligent, pro-active, and well stocked with libraries on pleasing humans. For the combat hero, it will arrange for pirates to attack the ship. For the sly hacker, an encrypted mainframe using a familiar enigma. The no-nonsense negotiator "uncovers" an infomorph in the system, obviously the person responsible for this mess... Each step pulling them closer to the simulspace. A place where troubles melt away like memories.

I've just discovered another cool anime. it's focussing on augmented reality. The tile of the anime is Dennou Coil In a world where Augmented reality is everywhere, and perceived with some kind of glasses (perfect excemple of ectos!), young girl and her little sister arrive in a new town (read: Habitat) where lives their grandmother, a talented hacker. Something is really different about the cyberspace of this small town: an alternate, obsolete cyberpsace exist, where illegal viral softwares are numerous. They seem self aware, too, as well as the cyberpets are (think muses without the hability to speak). A powerful and mercyless antivirus AI is also roaming the city and both users and 'cyberies' fear them, for some reason. They can launch those balls called Kyuu-chan (Kyuu meaning sphere in japanese) the animation is pretty good, the cgi sfx too, but the protagonist are were too young to my taste. Still that could make a nice adventure here's an idea for a storyhook a small town South-East from Noctis Quinjao is experiencing weird occurences with the local Mesh. the adults seems to notice nothing at all, but an old hacker (and a Firewall Crow to boot) sees it too, when her granddaughter's Muse gets harmed by something a lot an exsurgent datavirus. the Sentinels would get spotted right away, and the possible witnesses, the kids of the town, wouldn't trust them. Sooo they're going to have to go undercover, in Neotenic morphs, while Forks will handle their usual morphs and passes as their parents. what they'll discover might shock them and cause severe knee-jerk reactions from the Consortium and the Tharsis League both... (what? that's up to you, GMees!)

SMBC also came up with a great solution to the continuity of consciousness debate that pops up with resleeving and forking concerns: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1677#comic

And the next sunday in a small habitat of Ceres Father Waithe "My dear parish of Innsmouth Hab, let us pray the Lord together! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu F'taghn! Ia! Ia! Cthulhu F'taghn! Testify!" a hundred of squids echoes "Amen!"

Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger might be a good resource for playing Extropians, or Jovians, fairly. http://www.rhjunior.com/comics/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger/ Post-Scarcity Copyrights: http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/QQSR0000.html#Comic=54 Uploading: http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/QQSR0000.html#Comic=91 An entire arc about the social ramifications of cornucopia machines: http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0138/ Indenture: http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger/ Fork-Napping: http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-2/ Oh, and pretty much anything from Big Head Press is ample demonstration of Extropian philosophy: http://www.bigheadpress.com/

This might explain why the universe is so empty: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3183#comic Surprised that one wasn't up earlier.