tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post5393409727039249256..comments2024-03-27T10:47:11.279+00:00Comments on Sapiens Anonym: i wrote you a story but i ate itLephthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17957644118179379305noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-41128828071613535312010-12-22T22:22:43.337+00:002010-12-22T22:22:43.337+00:00hm. that's not a bad idea. i've never actu...hm. that's not a bad idea. i've never actually seen anyone in person who has a rational outlook on GM, though; they all take the ridiculous "moderate" approach and say it "needs more testing" and "we don't know what it could <em>do</em>!"<br /><br />one sape. two sapes. a multipack of sapes. i don't think popularity is that easily won, friend; it's not going to be a very big talk.<br /><br />LLephthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17957644118179379305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-77495982725206358762010-11-27T22:52:37.162+00:002010-11-27T22:52:37.162+00:00Gauging it? Well you can't gauge it when first...Gauging it? Well you can't gauge it when first seeing somebody, but if he/she's carrying a bible, chances are that person prefers to talk about the rapture rather than the singularity.<br />Just asking "What's your take on genetically modified foodstuffs?" often lets you know pretty quickly what kind of future shock level you're talking to.<br />(you can also ask about euthanasia, abortion, or something else, but I've found genetically modified food is a pretty safe thing to ask about. It displays the kind of mind you're talking to, yet doesn't carry any of the connotations that talking about the soul/heaven/hell/god/genetic engineering on humans/abortion/etc... has) <br /><br />My name is Sapes, for we are... a handful?<br />Oh well, that's gonna change pretty quickly after your lecture at 27C3 (still trying to work out how to get there) there's gonna be a shitload of people on this blog. We'll all unite as the global transhuman legion.<br /><br />Unfortunately, the yank has somehow vanished from my field of view. I'm too busy with my studies, and he's really not in my time zone, so I don't have many opportunities to talk to him...<br /><br />Funnily enough, religious people actually are the authority when it comes to guilt, seeing as what kind of abominations they've committed in the name of their respective deity...<br />I'm all for ice cream though.Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03426429970161376876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-55538620375213548802010-10-10T21:44:02.749+01:002010-10-10T21:44:02.749+01:00odd. i find "murderer" is the most commo...odd. i find "murderer" is the most common insult for me. <br /><br />i've never heard of future shock or of any metric for it, but your idea seems to make sense as a sort of cultural variable. how do you gauge it, generally?<br /><br />(collective plural for the readers of this here backwater: sapes.)<br /><br />go for it with the Yank. it's amazing how far someone can get mentally, once removed from their home set of beliefs and forced to question their assumptions.<br /><br />we must be guilty. religious people say so. so guilty we might just go out for ice cream every now and again.<br /><br />LLephthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17957644118179379305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-22132805859009049082010-09-22T00:05:40.458+01:002010-09-22T00:05:40.458+01:00Actually I don't get the murderer thing too of...Actually I don't get the murderer thing too often. I fucking love crunching and munching on some of 'em embryos though.<br /><br />On the topic of shocking people: do you have any notion of what's called 'future shock level'? It'll help you predict the severity of people's reactions when talking about transhumanism and other things from 'oh that's kinda cool' all the way to 'burn the witch, burn the witch!'. (All of us are Sapiens-Anonym-readers/writer are either at level 3 or 4, for obvious reasons.)<br /><br />evilness afoot: I've secretly been working away at an american acquaintance of mine who started out deeply religious and on shock level -1 or so ("sometimes I think we went too far with technology". I got him somewhere in between SL2 and 3 now), and am actually gaining ground on deconverting him from religion to common fucking sense. Ah, the wonders of psychology<br />Muar, gyar, gyar, if I may say so.<br /><br />Oh, right. <i>Guilt</i>. That guilt is totally incessantly gnawing away at my nonexistant, but evil and black <i>soul</i>. I'm starting to think I should soon grow horns and get <i>a black aura</i>. Yeah, that most precisely expresses my mind about these matters in words.Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03426429970161376876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-49137593726343410792010-09-21T19:38:07.344+01:002010-09-21T19:38:07.344+01:00i laughed at that; i've been called the exact ...i laughed at that; i've been called the exact same thing, and a murderer more times than i can count.<br /><br />i suppose we'll just have to deal with the awful, awful guilt from being vile murderers of insentient balls of stem cells.<br /><br />LLephthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17957644118179379305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-13416588212537001352010-09-10T21:19:49.825+01:002010-09-10T21:19:49.825+01:00Well you don't need much physical stamina or l...Well you don't need much physical stamina or lung volume to be an assassin. That would be the bounty hunter. An assassin strikes from a hiding spot, and only has to make sure he is not detected before making his approach.<br /><br />Then, I'm obviously not someone who judges people who are in favor of abortion, but I for myself have actually been called a 'baby-eating heathen' during an argument about religion, abortion, consciousness and the like. I'm sad to report that that expression was about the wittiest and most poignant thing said person's mouth has ever been heard giving utterance to.Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03426429970161376876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-86626698851788064602010-09-10T11:55:17.307+01:002010-09-10T11:55:17.307+01:00i'd make a shitty assassin, despite my rather ...i'd make a shitty assassin, despite my rather good homebrew anatomical knowledge; i have all the lung capacity of a two-day-old kitten, and possibly even less physical stamina than Professor Hawking himself.<br /><br />"Get back - *huff* *huuuuff* here so - *huuuuuuff* *wheeeze* I can st -" *cardiac arrest*<br /><br />LLephthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17957644118179379305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-78846746641412249112010-09-08T23:20:29.395+01:002010-09-08T23:20:29.395+01:00Ah, silent and heartless, but no assassin, and tha...Ah, silent and heartless, but no assassin, and that little word, my friend, makes all the difference. Also, heartless is kind of ill-defined. If being heartless means being in favor of abortion, or having no mercy for ignorant, obnoxious idiots who 'have had it coming', as they say, then you can call me heartless too.Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03426429970161376876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-7951310733817018682010-09-08T19:25:55.139+01:002010-09-08T19:25:55.139+01:00Max - i had a dog, a Staffordshire bull terrier, w...Max - i had a dog, a Staffordshire bull terrier, when i lived with my ma. that was a long time ago now. i fucking loved that dog, though.<br /><br />i am sorta heartless and silent.<br /><br />LLephthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17957644118179379305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-70581601523113440892010-09-06T23:32:02.905+01:002010-09-06T23:32:02.905+01:00Ugh, I wish my sentences made more sense. I must a...Ugh, I wish my sentences made more sense. I must adopt a habit of proof-reading anything written after midnight.Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03426429970161376876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667295582801858613.post-53344647795040129122010-09-06T23:30:19.226+01:002010-09-06T23:30:19.226+01:00Nice story. Enjoyed it as I usually do with your s...Nice story. Enjoyed it as I usually do with your stories.<br /><br />Also, you have a dog? Don't ask me why, but I wouldn't have thought of you being the dog type, but then that probably stems from my mental image of you being your avatar, a heartless, silent ninja assassin.Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03426429970161376876noreply@blogger.com