mithriltabby: Detail from Dali’s “Persistence of Memory” (Time)
Aaron Diaz, of the webcomic Dresden Codak, has translated a 300,000-year-old cave painting into Enough is Enough: A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism. (Scroll below the comic to read.) Anders Sandberg replies with transrodentism.
mithriltabby: Ancient Roman icosahedral die (Game)
In doing the research for Rise of the Jedi, I’ve been contemplating how an interstellar culture can hover around an equilibrium point of technology for 25,000 years. (The Star Wars universe isn’t the only one with long-term stable galactic culture; Asimov’s Foundation books are another galactic empire.) Living as we do in a time of technological acceleration, that kind of stability is a contrast to our daily lives. I have some plans for looking at mechanisms behind equilibrium technology levels, but first I’d like to deal with what Charlie Stross called the “turd that Vernor Vinge crapped into the punchbowl of SF writing, and now nobody wanting to take a drink can ignore it”: the Singularity.

Post-Singularity Encounters )

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