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Question A Very Selective Tragedy
I need to find a way to explain away the simultaneous quiet deaths in the night of a couple of thousand people worldwide such that (were this the only thing to happen, of course) nobody would ever think to take a second look into "why." There's nothing particularly special about them; they're in perf...
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over 9 years ago
Question How To Eat the Moon
An ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) has come to the conclusion that we humans should be put in a simulation. It has also decided that it would rather not turn the Earth into computronium. Fortunately, there's $7.34\times10^{22}$ kg just sitting around doing nothing about 380,000 km out in orbit. I...
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over 9 years ago
Question What directive would cause an ASI to put everyone in a benevolent Matrix?
I'm trying to figure out a way to create a situation much like the apocalypse of Turry from Robotica, but which involves all the people on Earth being either temporarily or permanently strapped into a version of the Matrix without noticing the transition. Specifically, I'm looking for a simple good-i...
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over 9 years ago
Question Interstellar internet use cases, or "What if the internet was mail-order?"
This question builds off Information Exchange In Space and How would interstellar internet work?, and specifically uses the communication system I developed here because of this. In a summary of those links, imagine that FTL transportation is easier than FTL communication, and that there are no caus...
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almost 10 years ago
Question Can this version of the Alderson Drive be used to violate causality?
I'm working on a simulator-type game which I want to be at least internally consistent, and which I'd like to work as close to reality as possible. That being said, it's set in space, which means to avoid player boredom there needs to be some kind of FTL travel. I'm trying to work in functional anal...
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almost 10 years ago