For what it's worth, having an immortal story with your name in it isn't the same thing as immortality. You can worry about what people think of you, or you can go out every day and do what needs to be done.
What does an AI have to say about legacies, anyway? I've never heard the suit try to philosophize...
((Planning on continuing the Venom thread, btw? Or is that needlessly complicated and competing with Wuya/Axel/the madness over at the ball? I don't mind either way, really.
((I'm sorry! I have to admit, at first I wasn't sure how to reply, and then... I forgot about it. >_< I replied just now, though. And thank you! ♥))
It's not worrying what other people think of me. It's the idea of my abilities being squandered. I know I have the capacity for great things. The world needs my intelligence. Needs what I could create. But now, I'm considered a criminal. No one would listen to me. So the question is, do I retreat into the shadows and make what little I can out of the rest of my life, or do I make them listen?
They're tools. They were built for one purpose. So, of course, they would "naturally" want to fulfill that purpose at any cost.
((No worries- I don't know how much you'd want to continue that without an Eddie or Peter anyway. And is that last strikethrough illegible?))
I suppose that's 'natural' enough. As far as I can thell, the suit isn't self-aware enough to 'want' anything- or else it has enough self-awareness to not want anything. Chozo architects had strange ideas about tools...
((I was going to have Otto make a post to his journal about... well, spoiler, but seeing the last big boss fight on TV. In the movie the whole thing was televised. So really after that their worries would be moot. And no, it wasn't.))
Believe me, programming them with such intelligence and the capacity to learn... well, sometimes I think it was a bad idea.
Yes, I noticed in your icons you appear to be wearing some kind of powered armor. How fascinating... what kind of specs you got on it?
((Yeah, that'd probably be the best way to tie everything up. Thanks, TV!))
It's Xenotechnology, unfortunately; a gift from... some old friends. I've had it for years, and trust it with my life, but parts of it are still completely beyond me. It has all of the basics you'd want; pressurized life support, a limited propulsion system, and an onboard AI that's both a research aide and the best hacker-in-a-box you could imagine. But really, the most powerful and mind-boggling thing about the design is how modular it is- it seamlessly interfaces with new technology in a way that really shouldn't be possible. The Chozo had entire branches of physics dealing with matter and energy, dedicated to blurring the boundary between object and process in ways that just don't make sense.
In a way, the Chozo didn't recognize a difference between the tool and the task. Between an object with the potential for doing something, and the physical act of carrying it out.
((Of course he actually meant her armor because he's a tech geek like that. And THEN he'd finally go "Oh, hey, hot chick".))
There are people in the community who have the ability to "world-hop", or more precisely universe or dimension hop. They can take people from one universe to the other.
They were designed to sustain a fusion reaction, but their uses have proved to be infinite. They can pick up a penny and smash through concrete walls.
And intelligent on top of that. And you designed them yourself? I'm very impressed.
It's odd that, of everything about world hopping *this* should bother me, but- if it's possible to get there from here, is it really a different universe? Isn't that the definition of the term?
Yes, but it's a well-established theory in physics. Given that most if not all of the universes represented in this community have the same laws of physics as our own, however, it is possible that we're dealing with an open multiverse. This is a little difficult to explain, but... it's essentially the idea that there's the observable universe, with our world at the center, but that the actual universe is truly infinite and contains an infinite amount of observable universes.
Of course there is also the idea that every possible outcome of every event branches off into another dimension, just picometers shifted from our own reality. There would be infinite "layers" of reality coterminous with our own. It's a stretch, but it may be possible to move between the layers as well. The world-hoppers don't seem to know exactly how it works, so.
Hmm. I'm not exactly on top of the literature, but that does sound like an idea that the Federation scientists used to toss around- before they realized that it's essentially a completely untestable theory.
It's... plausible, though. I don't know. The Chozo used to hint that they thought of space and time in a completely different way than humans did, but no one was ever able to get an explanation out of them. We don't know if they were deliberately holding back, or if they were concepts that couldn't be translated well, or... if they were just confused about the matter themselves.
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What does an AI have to say about legacies, anyway? I've never heard the suit try to philosophize...
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Love your Otto, incidentally. :P ))
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It's not worrying what other people think of me. It's the idea of my abilities being squandered. I know I have the capacity for great things. The world needs my intelligence. Needs what I could create. But now, I'm considered a criminal. No one would listen to me. So the question is, do I retreat into the shadows and make what little I can out of the rest of my life, or do I make them listen?
They're tools. They were built for one purpose. So, of course, they would "naturally" want to fulfill that purpose at any cost.
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I suppose that's 'natural' enough. As far as I can thell, the suit isn't self-aware enough to 'want' anything- or else it has enough self-awareness to not want anything. Chozo architects had strange ideas about tools...
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Believe me, programming them with such intelligence and the capacity to learn... well, sometimes I think it was a bad idea.
Yes, I noticed in your icons you appear to be wearing some kind of powered armor. How fascinating... what kind of specs you got on it?
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It's Xenotechnology, unfortunately; a gift from... some old friends. I've had it for years, and trust it with my life, but parts of it are still completely beyond me. It has all of the basics you'd want; pressurized life support, a limited propulsion system, and an onboard AI that's both a research aide and the best hacker-in-a-box you could imagine. But really, the most powerful and mind-boggling thing about the design is how modular it is- it seamlessly interfaces with new technology in a way that really shouldn't be possible. The Chozo had entire branches of physics dealing with matter and energy, dedicated to blurring the boundary between object and process in ways that just don't make sense.
In a way, the Chozo didn't recognize a difference between the tool and the task. Between an object with the potential for doing something, and the physical act of carrying it out.
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Hm. Sounds a lot like my arms, haha.
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((SFX: the sound of innuendo going right over Samus' head. Hee.))
Philosophically? Or... oh. Yeah, modularity can be... unpredictable like that.
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There are people in the community who have the ability to "world-hop", or more precisely universe or dimension hop. They can take people from one universe to the other.
They were designed to sustain a fusion reaction, but their uses have proved to be infinite. They can pick up a penny and smash through concrete walls.
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It's odd that, of everything about world hopping *this* should bother me, but- if it's possible to get there from here, is it really a different universe? Isn't that the definition of the term?
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Yes, but it's a well-established theory in physics. Given that most if not all of the universes represented in this community have the same laws of physics as our own, however, it is possible that we're dealing with an open multiverse. This is a little difficult to explain, but... it's essentially the idea that there's the observable universe, with our world at the center, but that the actual universe is truly infinite and contains an infinite amount of observable universes.
Of course there is also the idea that every possible outcome of every event branches off into another dimension, just picometers shifted from our own reality. There would be infinite "layers" of reality coterminous with our own. It's a stretch, but it may be possible to move between the layers as well. The world-hoppers don't seem to know exactly how it works, so.
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It's... plausible, though. I don't know. The Chozo used to hint that they thought of space and time in a completely different way than humans did, but no one was ever able to get an explanation out of them. We don't know if they were deliberately holding back, or if they were concepts that couldn't be translated well, or... if they were just confused about the matter themselves.
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