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It's time we publish our next 3D... 
Corellion:
Unless I missed something, we already have three articles from you for a next 3D issue: "the virus", "where's Santiago" and "population boom".
About the virus article, for some reason I found it funnier when I saw "/entertainment/20thcentury/humour/MPflyingcircus/" instead of simply "MPFlyingCircus" in your edited version. Could that be changed again?
Also in the Santiago article, perhaps the end goal of the game should be explained better, how exactly Santiago can be found? Perhaps you should say that every issue she will be on a different tile. It would be the DOSC agent's task to PM the coordinates of that tile to the CISCO. However, if the tile in question is terraformed, the agent should also PM the terrain improvement Santiago is residing. Or if she's in a base, the base facility she's currently in. How does that sound?
Btw, I was thinking it would be more fun if we also included a picture showing Santiago (or some other item she recently used or person she was last seen with) with on the background the scene where she was last seen. I don't know how to do that though. The irregular shape of Santiago should be somehow cut out of her diplomatic pic in sparta.pcx (or whatever their faction files are called). Does anyone with more graphic experience know how?
Cedayon:
I can no longer see that picture you attached where a cat was aiming a gun. Could you please reattach it? Unless of course we're gonna use something else for the "caption the picture"?
TKG:
I can no longer see the 3D icon pictures you posted earlier either. Do you still have them? Could you please reattach them then? Today I've reread the first 3D issue, and two pictures (the first and the last, your 3D icons) were missing.
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On a general note, should we include an article dealing with the new July government, even now we can't find enough active people to fill the government?
I've also written an article that could be used for the philosophical section. It's mainly reusing text I had already written for the debate I had with Drogue concerning the nature of cyborgs. My plan is to write another article for the next 3D issue, saying that an Artificial Intelligence has been born, making emotions less useful than our implants (for the details, reread my post from a while back). The 3D issue after that would deal with Unimatrix 001 members rioting in Pi Square, resisting the government attempts to suppress their emotions. Does that sound well? In any case, here's the article I'm proposing for the next 3D:
The Philosophical Section - By Mani Alpha-3
As the Consciousness’ 3D information service strives to approach the laudable ideal of objectivity and neutrality as close as possible, we would like to share with you the opinion of the other side in the emotions debate. Below is an extract of Mani Alpha-3's recently published work entitled "Essays on Emotion”:
Corellion:
Unless I missed something, we already have three articles from you for a next 3D issue: "the virus", "where's Santiago" and "population boom".
About the virus article, for some reason I found it funnier when I saw "/entertainment/20thcentury/humour/MPflyingcircus/" instead of simply "MPFlyingCircus" in your edited version. Could that be changed again?
Also in the Santiago article, perhaps the end goal of the game should be explained better, how exactly Santiago can be found? Perhaps you should say that every issue she will be on a different tile. It would be the DOSC agent's task to PM the coordinates of that tile to the CISCO. However, if the tile in question is terraformed, the agent should also PM the terrain improvement Santiago is residing. Or if she's in a base, the base facility she's currently in. How does that sound?
Btw, I was thinking it would be more fun if we also included a picture showing Santiago (or some other item she recently used or person she was last seen with) with on the background the scene where she was last seen. I don't know how to do that though. The irregular shape of Santiago should be somehow cut out of her diplomatic pic in sparta.pcx (or whatever their faction files are called). Does anyone with more graphic experience know how?
Cedayon:
I can no longer see that picture you attached where a cat was aiming a gun. Could you please reattach it? Unless of course we're gonna use something else for the "caption the picture"?
TKG:
I can no longer see the 3D icon pictures you posted earlier either. Do you still have them? Could you please reattach them then? Today I've reread the first 3D issue, and two pictures (the first and the last, your 3D icons) were missing.
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On a general note, should we include an article dealing with the new July government, even now we can't find enough active people to fill the government?
I've also written an article that could be used for the philosophical section. It's mainly reusing text I had already written for the debate I had with Drogue concerning the nature of cyborgs. My plan is to write another article for the next 3D issue, saying that an Artificial Intelligence has been born, making emotions less useful than our implants (for the details, reread my post from a while back). The 3D issue after that would deal with Unimatrix 001 members rioting in Pi Square, resisting the government attempts to suppress their emotions. Does that sound well? In any case, here's the article I'm proposing for the next 3D:
The Philosophical Section - By Mani Alpha-3
As the Consciousness’ 3D information service strives to approach the laudable ideal of objectivity and neutrality as close as possible, we would like to share with you the opinion of the other side in the emotions debate. Below is an extract of Mani Alpha-3's recently published work entitled "Essays on Emotion”:
Lately there have been many debates on the nature of emotions, and whether we Cyborgs should have them. To understand the discussion about emotions, it is useful for outsiders to first give a summary of the nature of our cybernetic implants.
When a fullhuman chooses to become member of the Consciousness, he or she receives a series of implants. Naturally those cybernetic implants are not self-aware, and will probably stay that way, unless in some far future we should discover the appropriate technology to make them self-aware. Also, unlike the popular misconception among fullhumans, we are not controlled by those algorithms. As they are non-sentient, that would make us mindless drones. Those who do claim that we are mindless robots are simply opinion leaders in other factions who wish to prevent all humans to flock to our glorious faction. We are still conscious individuals, and have near-full control over our algorithms. We can choose to use them or not to use them, just as we could choose to or not to switch off a 21th century computer. They simply increase our logical and analytical abilities using advanced software programs, just like those Old Earth computers. They also allow us to communicate with each other, by transmitting casual electromagnetic beams, which are decoded by our algorithms and directly fed to our consciousness.
Currently our algorithms suppress our emotions. This is done by sending electrical impulses and chemical signals to certain areas of the brain responsible for emotions, such as the limbic system and the hypothalamus. The reason for doing so at the dawn of our faction was because it was assumed emotions were per definition illogical, and it would be better to let the physiological processes normally taken care of by emotions be regulated by the rational algorithms. However I fail to see the use of letting our implants instead of our emotions control those physiological processes. I mean, as Prime Function Drogue Beta-8 argued well in the past, emotions are instinctive and autonomous reactions we don’t think consciously about the moment they happen, as our consciousness is too slow to react rationally on certain situations. However, after fifteen years of experience with our cybernetic implants, I fail to see how that has changed now we have implants. Before our implants can become self-conscious due to further technological progress and could take over some of the brain's duties - if we would want that - our consciousness and our center of reason and action still resides completely in our “slow” brains. So even though our implants can process huge amounts of data for us, our reaction speed on that data doesn’t improve much.
In other words, since our algorithms don’t have a consciousness, and our consciousness is still as slow as that of fullhumans, we wouldn’t be able to react as fast to surprising circumstances as emotions can, if all the physiological processes previously regulated by emotions would now have to be done consciously. The solution to that, as implemented fifteen years ago, is pre-programming our algorithms to react on certain situations in certain ways, without us having to take conscious decisions. But then I ask: how is this any different from emotions? Those pre-programmed algorithms are also a sort of “instinctive and autonomous reactions we don’t think consciously about the moment they happen”. The conclusion I reach is we haven’t gained anything by replacing emotions by algorithmic responses.
Therefore I would like to suggest we start an experiment. Let's call it "Unimatrix 001". It would involve asking a large group of volunteers to order their implants to no longer suppress their emotions electrically and chemically. A research team would observe the results of that change and report to the Science Function. He would then, after deliberating with the other High Council members, decide if the experiment should be generalized to the entire Cybernetic population, to further increase the productivity and efficiency of the Cybernetic Consciousness.
When a fullhuman chooses to become member of the Consciousness, he or she receives a series of implants. Naturally those cybernetic implants are not self-aware, and will probably stay that way, unless in some far future we should discover the appropriate technology to make them self-aware. Also, unlike the popular misconception among fullhumans, we are not controlled by those algorithms. As they are non-sentient, that would make us mindless drones. Those who do claim that we are mindless robots are simply opinion leaders in other factions who wish to prevent all humans to flock to our glorious faction. We are still conscious individuals, and have near-full control over our algorithms. We can choose to use them or not to use them, just as we could choose to or not to switch off a 21th century computer. They simply increase our logical and analytical abilities using advanced software programs, just like those Old Earth computers. They also allow us to communicate with each other, by transmitting casual electromagnetic beams, which are decoded by our algorithms and directly fed to our consciousness.
Currently our algorithms suppress our emotions. This is done by sending electrical impulses and chemical signals to certain areas of the brain responsible for emotions, such as the limbic system and the hypothalamus. The reason for doing so at the dawn of our faction was because it was assumed emotions were per definition illogical, and it would be better to let the physiological processes normally taken care of by emotions be regulated by the rational algorithms. However I fail to see the use of letting our implants instead of our emotions control those physiological processes. I mean, as Prime Function Drogue Beta-8 argued well in the past, emotions are instinctive and autonomous reactions we don’t think consciously about the moment they happen, as our consciousness is too slow to react rationally on certain situations. However, after fifteen years of experience with our cybernetic implants, I fail to see how that has changed now we have implants. Before our implants can become self-conscious due to further technological progress and could take over some of the brain's duties - if we would want that - our consciousness and our center of reason and action still resides completely in our “slow” brains. So even though our implants can process huge amounts of data for us, our reaction speed on that data doesn’t improve much.
In other words, since our algorithms don’t have a consciousness, and our consciousness is still as slow as that of fullhumans, we wouldn’t be able to react as fast to surprising circumstances as emotions can, if all the physiological processes previously regulated by emotions would now have to be done consciously. The solution to that, as implemented fifteen years ago, is pre-programming our algorithms to react on certain situations in certain ways, without us having to take conscious decisions. But then I ask: how is this any different from emotions? Those pre-programmed algorithms are also a sort of “instinctive and autonomous reactions we don’t think consciously about the moment they happen”. The conclusion I reach is we haven’t gained anything by replacing emotions by algorithmic responses.
Therefore I would like to suggest we start an experiment. Let's call it "Unimatrix 001". It would involve asking a large group of volunteers to order their implants to no longer suppress their emotions electrically and chemically. A research team would observe the results of that change and report to the Science Function. He would then, after deliberating with the other High Council members, decide if the experiment should be generalized to the entire Cybernetic population, to further increase the productivity and efficiency of the Cybernetic Consciousness.
. But I think we should save the "drunken sailor" jokes in case we end up invading PEACE bases. We can then address the question directly to the pirates themselves ("What should we do with a drunken sailor? The only information we've retrieved from our databanks is to put him in bed with the captain's daughter").
No. Personal domination, ie one person controling everything, like Big Brother in 1984.
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