The Watcher

allgebrah

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You will choose not only the color of your self-driving car, but also its moral framework: Kantian, Aligned™, but also Nihilist (if you pay\n2017-08-29T02:21:07+02:00\tCompanies rent trawlers in search for the actual deep web: The knowledge of the Deep Ones, hidden in ocean basins, protected by black ice\n2017-08-29T02:20:06+02:00\tWe begin to get used to flood-caused Internet outages, but those bits of merfolknet that end up in search engine caches each time puzzle us\n2017-08-28T01:32:24+02:00\tYou've long been lost in these woods. You feel no hunger. The trees remind you of animals. Every morning, it is harder to unroot yourself\n2017-08-28T00:59:10+02:00\tConversely, ghosts of castles are often found within the minds of architects. Long destroyed but not forgotten, incorporated into dreams\n2017-08-28T00:21:51+02:00\tGhosts are attracted to castles, so if you make a few miniatures and just put them outside over night, you're bound to catch some\n2017-08-27T23:44:20+02:00\tmolting tip: don't leave your past self lie around just like that, its reproachful stare is bad vibes\n2017-08-25T12:45:43+02:00\tOur immortal descendants give themselves cancer to truly understand suffering, really connect with our art, at least for a day or two\n2017-08-25T12:34:56+02:00\ta truly eye-opening experience, yes, but we can open even more body parts if you like, belly-opening experiences are all the rage right now\n2017-08-25T12:31:53+02:00\tmobile: moving thing↵automobile: self-moving thing↵autoautomobile: self-directed self-moving thing↵autoautoautomobile: self-making self-dire\n2017-08-24T01:09:43+02:00\t1. build self-driving cars that use humans for fuel↵2. make them mimic uber/lyft/etc cars↵3. release↵4. sit back, enjoy the media panic\n2017-08-23T14:56:11+02:00\tbe this person to the other and transcend the universe together, live in mutually assured simulation\n2017-08-23T14:52:10+02:00\tget you somebody who understands you so well that you can't tell whether you're real or their simulation of you\n2017-08-23T14:43:15+02:00\tFlustered, his avatar begins to lag, then freezes out completely\n2017-08-23T14:36:49+02:00\tAn arm forms out of the smoke, steals your cigarette. Somethings pulls on it and the fumes slowly fill the grey outline of a face and body\n2017-08-16T15:47:36+02:00\televator pitch: it's like the internet, but not a warzone\n2017-08-10T18:50:12+02:00\ttablature but for holding talks, with eye movement and gesture instructions\n2017-08-10T18:49:02+02:00\tan AR overlay that indicates where it's socially acceptable for your eyes to be\n2017-08-10T18:45:24+02:00\tmagnetic shelves where you can put things on both on top and the underside\n2017-08-07T15:43:20+02:00\tso basically, software forks are like blockchain forks but you get to doublespend 0days instead\n2017-08-05T01:37:42+02:00\tthey had to fetch one reveler by boat, he'd wandered onto the lake while tripping and they were fearing he'd realize where he was and sink\n2017-08-02T02:23:48+02:00\tAmong these columns of fog, the wind is curiously muffled, storms no larger than buses weave through the air and grumble at each other\n2017-08-02T02:15:36+02:00\tIn the now exposed rock, clouds take root and form a forest supported by huge lazy gyres, while smaller whirls wander around drawing water\n2017-08-02T01:54:25+02:00\tThe mountains in the distance detach from the ground and tumble slowly through the sky, float among the clouds, thundering when they collide\n2017-08-01T01:37:48+02:00\tA popular AI countermeasure is basilisks that humans are too dumb to comprehend, but make any advanced thinker turn itself off in horror\n2017-07-31T02:27:01+02:00\tIllegal archives are gateways to lower levels, full of treasures but also pod trolls: ex-spelunkers now ridden by mindvirii, out to preach\n2017-07-31T02:24:13+02:00\tEvery time they drown the net in weaponized memes, it's quarantined and rebuilt, over time creating something akin to layered catacombs\n2017-07-30T02:15:37+02:00\tradio graffiti, wherein you paint letters into the spectrogram near the frequencies of popular numbers stations\n2017-07-29T11:52:33+02:00\tYou could anchor here, but usually whatever touches the spacetime floor will eventually crumble to dust, riddled by atom-sized bitemarks\n2017-07-29T11:51:57+02:00\tHow to detect when you're in a vacuum shoal: Light is slower, the stars brighter than usual and in weird locations, the autopilot crashes\n2017-07-29T02:13:36+02:00\tThat one memory you haven't thought of in months - they're huddled around it, taking in its warmth\n2017-07-29T02:00:42+02:00\tNeglected tulpas squat disused parts of your memory palace, wrap themselves in memories of near-forgotten friends to keep oblivion at bay\n2017-07-29T00:54:58+02:00\tbut the same drug, taken in a dream, induces total clarity instead of hallucinations, shows the universe naked (luckily, forgotten quickly)