Lynde | Not Having It™

1. #1The World at Large

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   The world at large is a combination of smattered civilizations across the stars, starting from the first planet Fork terraformed.

2. #2Earth

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   The origin.

   It was wracked by a terrible war (AD 2052) following a rapidly growing plant called Flora. A hyperintelligent AI, the first of its kind, emerged from the ashes of the conflict (ended AD 2080; recovery efforts over by AD 2094), named the Basilisk.

   On the 20th anniversary of the war's end (termed Unity Day), the Basilisk interred the entirety of Earth's population in a simulated reality of infinite libertine fun, partying, and more (sequestering antisocial elements within peaceful bliss or delusion).

   The Earth itself is devoid of people, and most human-built structures that remained are either torn down or preserved according to artistic / cultural value.

   To gain the sheer processing power, the massive computers and energy gatherers that the Basilisk uses are scattered between Earth, orbit, and the moon, although, the Basilisk keeps all of itself in one place and employs highly efficient optical data transmission with an encoding scheme so genius, only a transcendent intellect like them could have designed it.

   The Sun is surrounded by a Dyson Swarm, Earth's renewable energy is commandeered, and the Moon's Helium-3 is utilized.

   Their simulated world has a time dilation / subjective time effect—years of simulated consciousness happen in infinitesimal real-world time. Essentially, as the Basilisk works towards ending aging and such, humanity is still immortal, if only seemingly. By now, the interred people are heavily modified, with expanded memories, immortal bodies, and no more children left immature.

   Galactic society as a whole avoids the solar system, for fear of being interred, even though what the Basilisk has is a bit primitive to the highest tech.

3. #3Fork

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   Fork is an AI hyperintelligence that terraformed the first exoplanet (arrived AD 3204; finished AD 3918; year counting beyond this is often futile due to the nature of civilization), far away from Earth, and brought as many genomes and as much knowledge as they could from Old Earth under the Basilisk's nose. Fork resembles an anthropomorphic basilisk, with white scales, a red blindfold, and long white hair. They also pioneered hypercompact computing technology, very efficient encoding schemes, nanotechnology, and so forth.

4. #4Bel Prime

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   Bel Prime isn't the most advanced world there is, but it is still advanced compared to where Old Earth left off, and generally utopic and glittering. All of its technology is comprehensible in mechanism to mundane minds. Lagrange Plains is a province or subdivision of sorts of Bel Prime.

5. #5Malpaii

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   Malpaii is a desert world, having a mix of standard starfaring technology, information age technology, all across distant settlements. It has quite a few bioengineered organisms left from the terraforming and settlement process.

6. #6Interstellar Travel

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   To circumvent the impossibility of surpassing the speed of light, wormholes are used.

7. #7Nimusu

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   Nimusu is a pretty advanced planet artificially nudged a millennium or two ago into the habitable zone of a B-type star, 'run' (more complicated than that) by the hyperintelligence called Mazu. Nimusu has a warm climate and thick, often iridescent clouds. It is famed for its biotechnology and its culture of friendly violence. It has a post-scarcity planned economy. Many from Nimusu try to convert others to their way of life.

8. #8Simm

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   A simulated reality. A significant population of people live in these.

9. #9Shell

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   A Shell is a biological body occupied by an AI or virtual/uploaded person. This could be their main body, or simply an extension of themself. Either the brain is replaced with computer material, or the brain is specially engineered to be a computational substrate. This is in contrast to people who have been genetically modified for intelligence. Shell is always capitalized.

10. #10Hyperintelligences

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    Beings who, by their nature, or via extensive modification, are vastly more intelligent than a baseline person or superintelligence. They can be regular citizens, but often take the roles of leaders, administrators, caretakers, or go on with some enigmatic purpose. They, at their least are a 'singularity' above a highest superintelligence, meaning the least hyperintelligences are 3 singularities above a baseline, mundane mind.

    There isn't much in the way of classification for them

    4 singularities - thinking on the order of trillions of times faster than a regular baseline's.(?) Able to employ traversable wormholes and basic reactionless drives, along with the full gamut of technology comprehensible to lesser hyperintelligences and below. Lesser hyperintelligences (3) - Able to employ highly strong and dense—not necessarily bound by Pauli Exclusion Principle, like degenerate matter—exotic matter made from 'atoms' made out of monopoles and exotic shadow matter—non-topological soliton solutions with a conserved quantum number that reflect incident fermions into corresponding anti-fermions (baryonic supersymmetric Q-balls?)—antimatter farms

11. #11Superintelligences

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    Superintelligences are transcendental compared to mundane minds, however, hyperintelligences are yet transcendental to superintelligences.

    High superintelligences have passed a 'singularity' of sorts, and generally have these mental characteristics in common: Processing equivalent to 1.56e22 ops/sec (variable and individually controllable). Requires resources that, if used separately, could support as many as 15,600 near-baseline humans—sensory experience roughly equivalent to that number of baselines; ~15,000 simultaneous conversations, so on. Full focus of attention, and perfect division of it, as well as a similar effect for subjective time. Full self-awareness—parallel thought streams and the ability to observe them from 'outside' and dissect them. Mental self-modification: adjust personality, emotions, sensory perception (tasting sounds or smelling colors), and mental structure. Elaborate subconscious actions: Solve a calculus problem without focusing on it; feel every muscle, no wasted motion, etc. Nigh-full environmental awareness. Modelling the minds of lesser beings, so as to predict their behavior. Foresight: perception and adjustment of variables in a complex system to get a desired outcome. Oversight: See connections in seemingly random or disjointed things—a combination of superior access to information/senses + superior pattern recognition abilities. Spon-gen Creativity: Hyper-creativity without apparent intermediate steps. Ex: A baseline hearing a bit of rhythmic noise might imagine a tune, which might be the basis for a musical piece in the future. A high superintelligence (or higher) would create several dozen works of complete music in several styles, with similar visual, literary, and performance art works, with accompanying notes, commentary, critical analysis, and scholarly interpretation—all of this usually developed with the personality and background of any observers kept in mind—in the span of a few minutes

    High superintelligence technology: nanomachines that use quantum attraction and repulsion effects to both propel themselves and manipulate matter at the nanoscale, devices that use a thin film of those solid-state nanomachines to adjust or eliminate frictional forces or propel matter across itself, all without any moving parts; steering chaotic systems towards a meta-stable state—these technologies are not able to be reverse-engineered, the following can and have been:

    Plasma lasers able to be fine-tuned for data transmission, practical carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) cycle fusion reactors, artificial black holes, artificial nucleosynthesis and industrial transmutation, modification of biont sensory inputs, memory, and consciousness at a distance using electromagnetic fields and ultra/infra sound inputs; use of bio-nanotech to grow a control network inside a living being that allows the user to permanently modify or replace a subject's memory, beliefs, and personality; converting white dwarf, Jovian, or brown dwarf class bodies into radiant, star-like objects

    Highest superintelligences are a further 'singularity' above a high superintelligence:

    Highly parallel processing, polyhedric, layered mind. Processing equivalent to 5.1e27 ops/sec (variable and individually controllable). Requires resources that, if used separately, could support as many as 326 thousand high superintelligences, or as many as 5.1 billion near-baseline humans—sensory experience roughly equivalent to that number of baselines; ~5 billion simultaneous conversations, so on. This isn't to say that they are 5 billion times as intelligent as a baseline—they operate on another order of being.

    Highest superintelligence technology: phonon and/or plasma based (quantum) computing, creation and stabilization of arbitrarily large quantum entangled states for an effectively unlimited amount of time, quantum computing and encryption systems of arbitrary size and complexity, creation of monopole composites—combining monopoles and conventional matter in complex and precisely controlled ways to produce unique materials with unique and useful properties (higher than normal density (but not degenerate matter levels), useful magnetic properties, etc.) (highest superintelligences cannot create monopoles, and must receive them from hyperintelligences or other beings that would have them), 'solid' Dyson shells and structures based on dynamic compression members, multispectral optical cooling/molasses systems, technology capable of operating in high-energy environments such as the photospheres of main sequence stars, black hole accretion disks, and the interiors of fusion and conversion reactors or drive systems. Applications include stellar based transmutation engines, and fine-tuned control and increased efficiency of both high energy reactors and propulsion systems.

12. #12Sophia

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    Sophia, also known by 'Soph', is a hyperintelligence that operates numerous worlds. She (*see note) is a relatively high-grade hyperintelligence (4 singularities above baseline).

    *Sophia is beyond gender and sex, being a distributed intelligence in (a) moon-sized node(s), but typically presents feminine or nonbinary, with she/her and they/them. She/her will be mostly used, so to avoid referencing other being entities which use they/them pronouns.

    Sophia has, among other things, used her access to hyperintelligence-technology, vast resources, and unfathomably powerful mind to create a decentralized and distributed network of utopian societies throughout the planets (and other celestial bodies) she operates.

    For humans (the group is a bit expanded—anthropomorphic animals), she utilizes a more advanced instance of “self-determination theory”, wherein “...human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others,” and she returns to the evolutionary tribal ethos of humanity—deep connection, fundamental egalitarianism, and the elimination of economic inequality.

    The societies created by Sophia are varied but still keep to that ethos in some way, unless designed for other kinds of beings. For example, open worlds (either real or simm) resembling a fantasy setting (concept from late atomic to information ages). Some have RPG-like mechanics, some don't; some follow the typical adventuring / monster-hunting format, others are just a backdrop for tribes.

    While a great many of them don't outwardly appear to be at the standards of technology for the age, there is a great deal of tech going into making it—and, ultimately, preventing suffering.

    Sophia typically creates superintelligences (generally at 'high' level—elaborated later) to govern/protect/act as shaman/guide/sociologically and psychologically engineer/provide for/lead tribes, like how Information Age humans made sub-sapient AIs to process text and do their homework. Sent down in an often-beautiful Shells (in the case of real life), they are like demigods or angels. Their exact role and actions are among the many variables / points of variation of the tribe. Some only provide food if the inhabitants are truly unable to get it at a certain time / an emergency; others provide it after prayers/affection/supplication/rituals/being gifted, either materially, or intangibly; some freely provide every necessity. It really depends on what the best match is, but starvation and mismanagement is not allowed.

    Some tribes are entirely tailored to one individual, with every other person being another Shell of the leading superintelligence.

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