#computationalalchemist

[doctormothoid]

computationalalchemist started following you.

Newt Gunner looked up from where he'd been napping on a tree branch, and grinned at his new visitor, tipping his hat politely. "Good afternoon."

[k25ff]

oooh! (voltage*current) requests are still happening? if so, I would like to enqueue myself.

Your touch makes the world more beautiful.

You walk barefoot, trailing faintly luminescent footprints in your wake. With the slightest mental pressure, a growth of pale blue crystals sprouts, like accelerated moss from where you’ve trod.

They grow higher, taller, their shapes more complicated as they get larger, the gentle chiming that accompanies them growing louder. Choirs of crystal growths build as they spread, singing a haunting song as they harmonise and grow. You occasionally find the skeletons of small animals or birds, encased in large crystals like bugs in amber. Those crystals seem to sing a more joyous song than the others.

Once, a man in a battered coat grabbed you by the shoulder as you walked home, late one night. He had a knife, but before he had the chance to say anything, you panicked. Flailing, trying to push him away from you, the bare skin of your palm touched his face. And then there was screaming. And then there was singing.

You’ve tried to forget. His face, contorted in agony, trying to pull away crystals already bonded to the bones of his skull. The angry, discordant song of your crystals, protecting their master. The snapping of bones, the tearing of flesh.

The time you returned days later to find a human skeleton, denuded of flesh, embedded in a humming cluster of pale blue crystals.

[solipsistful]

If it's not too much trouble, can you post the link to the page you're looking at?

Heeeeeere ya go.

I’ve been crawling through philosophy texts about multiplicity, but god I am kind of Done with philosophers. All they ever seem to talk about is “are system members discrete moral subjects and agents!?!?” again and again, and they never seem to actually be dealing with, like, Real Multiple Systems (and certainly not Real People With DID). They just take the core idea of “many minds - one body” and just ruuuun with it.

Back to the psychologists I suppose.

- Thomas

[occupationfic]

Jade - how do the engines on your ship work?

the landing craft has a dual propulsion system with vtol side engines for terrestrial flight and two wq 41.3 class sublight engines in the stern for spaceflight and terrestrial launch

i dont know if im allowed to talk about the specifics, sorry! wq does some really cool designs and i know their civilian work is just as good as some of the top line military stuff

[learn-tilde-ath]

re: "computationalalchemist answered: You could use Prolog-style lists for split."

"computationalalchemist answered: You could use Prolog-style lists for split."

I'm not totally sure what you mean, but my best guess as to what you meant is probably pretty similar to how I making it.

I implemented it and I think it works, I need to double check though.

With what I have now when I use 

split [THIS,THIS,THIS,THIS,THIS,THIS,NULL]COUNTER; ~ATH(COUNTER){ print "bananas"; BIFURCATE COUNTER[JUNK,COUNTER]; }EXECUTE(print "ok";); print "whee!";

it yields 

bananas bananas bananas bananas bananas bananas ok whee!

Which seems to make sense to me, and also, fits with how lisp lists work, and apparently also prolog lists.

also where it says split it will also accept bifurcate. they are actually treated as the same command.

import statements aren't fully implemented yet though.

I think I will put this version on github pretty soon.

Thank you for the advice.

[forgottenarchivist]

Speaking of which... how many shells do you think you could control at once if given the chance?

(after the first five or so id have to start forking my consciousness and i think the archive would start complaining about me taking up all the memory)

(theyve got their own brainlike structures so it gets easier for a short while and then there are diminishing returns)

(shells are arguably semi-autonomous but they are as dumb as planks and very simplistic)

(maybe certain abilities would allow me to co ordinate things better)

[chiasmforums]

When were the Chiasm forums first started? Was there anyone in particular responsible for making them exist?

First poster: Synath (F) (Admoverlord) (Superhuman) (Chiasm Syndicate)

Date: 2008/07/13

[k25ff]

The ... Ninth ... Wars? These sound important.

Basically what happened is that a technologically advanced civilisation was dropped in the middle of a magically advanced one. A series of brief wars were fought over territory around the Ninth City’s impact point, treaties were signed and so forth.

Nowadays, most of the tension is gone, but the Ninth are still pretty isolationist.

[solipsistful]

23 27 28?

23. talk about a plural friend!

probably the system we talk to most these days doesn’t have a tumblr anymore, tho i think they’d count as an Old Tumblr System ;P we basically just throw weird naturalnews articles, dumb kickstarters, and other ridiculous internet things at each other, usually at the main fronter although sometimes some other folks will pop up to say a thing or two. and then we complain about tumblr Discourse a bit. autistic socializing a+

27. have you ever thought someone external picked up on you being plural?

not exaccctly although there are plenty of “lmao you have no idea” moments. the only one I can really remember is our mom asking if i was trans because i heard a “male voice” in my head, having just watched a documentary where a woman explained her transness as being kinda a “nagging female voice” in her head. that one was especially funny because Thomas was cofronting, and we’ve always identified Thomas as the most feminine of us ;P

that whole authorship thing has made it at least pretty simple to explain it to some people. “yeah, those ‘characters’? they’re people and we live life together, nbd.” and folks who know those “characters” seem to have taken it with minimal questions :V

28. talk about how you switch

uuhhh. it depeends? i dunno this isn’t something i’ve ever thought to try to verbalize. “switching” for us is cofronting (remember: frontstuck ass :V). with someone like Thomas, it’s usually a possible spectrum of “doing things so perfectly in unison that we can’t even notice” to “Thomas is doing something like stimming or adding commentary without me noticing” to “yeah i am no longer the one doing these actions am I”. with Serpent and Val, it’s a bit more binary; I pretty clearly feel them step into control, usually over the course of a few seconds although we’ve had (unpleasant) times when that’s lasted longer.

- Ace

We’ve got a place in the headspace that’s meant to symbolize The Front and we’ve tried a few different metaphors for controlling that. Lately it’s been something that’s clearly ripped off from a Gundam, and it’s been like that for a while actually? Sooo sometimes we use that, so it’s literally taking the controls away from Ace. Usually I’m much more lazy and it’s just a matter of focusing on the outworld body (I don’t really feel it unless I’m focusing on it? But then it’s like being aware of and moving two bodies at once. [yeah sure that’s a totally familiar understandable feeling -Ace])

- Serpent

[iwieldthesword]

Impressions. Then: that's a lot of hair. okay. Now: WHAT A WONDERFUL GAY NERD :D

AAAAAAAAA

oh wow I totally forgot that you met me when I had waist-length hair... bizarre

[occupationfic]

John question: Brief synopsis of your life so far?

uhh, okay! i am from prospit in the crocker system, enlisted in the alliance military when i was seventeen, met my buddy dave in training, fought a lot of tro alternians, and now i'm assigned to skaia!

[forgottenarchivist]

Please describe nature of primary and secondary power sources and diagnose reasons for failure and damage.

{query: nature and status of primary source}

[error: full description locked - admin =]

{primary power source is located in reality anchor and was created by admins}

{its nature is classified}

[error: primary power source is not responding to ping]

{it is currently not reachable}

{no other data are available}

{query: nature and status of secondary power source}

{secondary power sources are self-sustaining spheres of hydrogen plasma located in a nearby adjusted space to the reality extrusion known as the location}

{power is captured via the spherical outer surfaces of the adjusted spaces}

[warning: power sources are cooling quickly]

{power sources are not being refuelled due to a local failure of the adjusted space topology}

{cause unknown}

{this is causing the uncharacteristic cooling}

[k25ff]

How big is panspermia in comparison to Earth? And what species inhabit it?

The world isn’t called Panspermia, but I will answer your questions about the main planet the setting is, well, set on.

It’s Earth-sized, and is inhabited by a number of Standard Fantasy Races in slightly unexpected ways. More specifically, some of the races (elves, gaunts) from Q&A were adapted in from a very old fantasy setting I designed, so they’ve been re-adapted out into this new setting.

So, in no particular order:

Humans (Stand boggard humans in various flavours)

Dwarves (It turns out the stereotypes of dwarves are very partially correct if you’re talking about one specific dwarven civilisation)

Orcs & Goblins (Kinda green)

Elves (Sea, Sky and Swamp (and Shadow, and Smoke and...))

Gaunts (Kinda grey)

Nursiians (frog people, like this guy from Q&A)

Some kind of lizard people

Thryskin (insect people)

The Ninth People

Maybe some others? There’s probably some random savage tribes of various kind of giant living in various places and lots of other nasties underground.

[solipsistful]

(1/3) Suggestions: (b/c I'm a programmer who likes design challenges) it could be a networked game such that you can have multiple views into the same game, each representing the viewpoint of one headmate. These could run on the same computer or different computers, and of course the viewpoints wouldn't have to be connected to the player(s) in any specific way. The game could keep track of different 'states' for each headmate - fronting, in headspace (if any exists), conscious of the world but

(2/3) not actively fronting, or inactive (the player disconnected from the game, perhaps). Time multiplexing would be an interesting problem - you could have it round-robin everyone, but that would be a slow gameplay experience. You could have disconnected headspace/realspace time clocks, and then either round-robin or allow unmultiplexed movement within one of the zones. In-game chat could be provided to allow for communication between members - or not if you want to simulate a lack of direct

i haven't gotten part 3 but we're about to go to sleep so :V

yeah multipliayer seemed like the most obvious choice to go with to simulate multiplicity, but i'd like to think that there's a possibility to be more creative than just "you're stuck playing this otherwise singleplayer game with some other loser online. ~multiplicity~" (altho Thomas wants to say he loves this metaphor).

the other thing that comes to mind is something like FFX-2's costumes systems, or Final Fantasy Tactic's job system -- that kind of switching around of role and whatnot. of course, that makes multiplicity seem like some sort of costume or specialized role at worst, honed tool at best ('I'll just switch to my wizard headmate!')

maybe the answer is to think more abstractly. i dunno

- Ace

[iwieldthesword]

computationalalchemist replied to your post “This is a PSA that I’m actually kind of hot?”

You should post a recent photo!

Friend my pal I don’t think they’re photos that you’d want to see

[trollian101]

Can we have words for technology?

I promised myself I'd answer all of these but boy this is getting redundant. This blog has sadly died but has been replaced by Trollak. Try asking him.