Eclipse Phase: Where Your Brain Is Software and Your Body Is a Rental

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Acceptable Losses Podcast, where I have been assured by Kirioth today that not only am I gonna be here all day long, but my day is gonna be sufficiently ruined by robots and octopuses.
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The robots and octopuses part was actually shy.
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That doesn't really matter.
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What's up, Kyrioth?
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How are you doing?
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Uh I'm good.
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I'm excited.
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This is something a little bit different.
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It's something that we haven't done before in terms of presentation.
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So that's it's gonna be fun.
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But before we get into this, which we're gonna have to real quick, because my god, Possum went deep on this one.
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Insert your own joke there.
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Uh firstly Don't insert anything.
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Don't don't I don't nope.
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You could, if you wanted to, insert the URL for the merch that DK is about to tell you about.
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Oh, you mean the merch at orchid8.com.
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Link in the description.
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Link on the screen, probably.
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I don't think we do QR codes anymore, but I like saying it because I think they looked cool on the screen.
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There's you like sci-fi, you like uh reality, you like something.
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There's I think there's still the wall scroll, there's still coins.
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It's great.
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Weed for Lincoln.
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Check it out, work it8.com again in the description, and I'm sure on the screen.
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Also, hey, thanks to everybody that uh pitched in for the make ship acceptable losses hoodie.
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217% of the goal was hit, 653 supporters.
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It rules.
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Nothing like planning mid-recording for the people, eh?
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A bit of a peek behind the curtain, a glance up the wizard sleeve.
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Um that doesn't sound right.
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Maybe up the magician's sleeve, right?
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Because they've always got something up their sleeve.
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The wizard.
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The wizard sleeve doesn't sound right.
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It doesn't sound quite right, does it?
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Yeah, it doesn't quite roll off the tongue the same, but we we get what you mean.
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You pull back the curtain a little bit.
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You know, it's it's really not a giant mask, it's not a sentient mask, it's just a silly little man with a control thing.
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That is what we describe uh Possum as.
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Yes, that's that's that's accurate.
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Um My God, it's Jeff Goldblum.
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We've never seen Jeff Goldblum or Possum in the same room.
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I'm just throwing out there.
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We could have an incredibly famous researcher on our side.
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Wow, all right, all right, all right.
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I could use some Jurassic Park merch.
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I just want a t-shirt with him lying in his own stomach.
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That's all I've ever wanted, and I've never got around to buying one, but you know that they're out there.
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This is this is already tangent heavy, which does not bode well for how long I think this episode's gonna be, does it?
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So get on with it, old man.
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We've got we've got eclipse phase.
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And okay.
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So right off the bat, that doesn't mean anything to me.
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You you you presented it like I should know.
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Oh no, this this by the time we get to the end of this, this absolutely will mean something to you.
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And something that Possum has done this time around, which is very cool, is this is presented effectively from an in-universe perspective.
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Oh we you'll you'll you'll pick it up nice and quick, but uh having been through this, this is uh this is gonna be a lot of fun.
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So let's get started.
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Let's do it.
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Good morning.
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It's wonderful to see you.
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I know that waking up in a new sleeve can be difficult, so I will be your helpful guide during this welcome back event that we've scheduled.
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Uh unfortunately, it seems that the restore point of this backup is quite a bit older than expected, which means that there's some gaps in your memory.
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Disorientation is common when it comes to the whole coming back to life thing, and acclimation can be difficult.
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It'll take a little bit for the ego to get accustomed to its new housing, so I'm happy to provide you with some important information to re-familiarise you with the worlds around you, and hopefully that will clear up any confusion that you might have.
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Here is a quick, fun lesson for you regarding an interesting scientific term.
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An eclipse phase is the period between when a cell is infected by a virus and when the virus appears within the cell and transforms it.
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During this point, the cell does not appear to have an infection, but it does.
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It's a brief moment where you can see the past, but then the harshness of reality and the memory of what led to that point overwhelms it.
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Scary, right?
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Oh, that's that's uh also is that real?
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Is there actually an eclipse phase between like virus incubation and actual like is that is that like is that like real?
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Or is that just like made up from the game?
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I am embarrassed to say that of all the things I anticipated you asking and looked up, that is not one of them.
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And really, that is something that should have been at the top of the list.
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It didn't even occur to me.
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It's always it always always makes me a little happy when when Kira's like, damn it.
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I usually prepare for how stupid and anxious you are with your questions, and I missed that one.
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Damn it.
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And I'm like, ah, yep.
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You put that on the mantle place?
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You put a lot of words in my mouth on that one.
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Holy shit.
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I didn't know such thing, Kira.
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You you have told me that on many occasions after recording.
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You cannot be out here slandering me like this.
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Well, you they they have no way of knowing I'm lying.
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I'm not.
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Also, Shy said, Virology definition the period between when a virus infects a cell and when a mature new virus particles appear inside or outside the cell.
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Astronomy and solar eclipses definition, the distinct stages or periods that happen during a solar or lunar eclipse.
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So, yeah, kinda.
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Yep.
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Yep.
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Yeah.
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And with it is, that's it's a very that's a very fun, uh, mixed, mixed definition for them to go for.
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So before you uh before you ask too many questions, the following presentation we have is based off of loose ends and incomplete stories from epics that are still being written.
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But anything prior to roughly ten years ago is a bit scattered.
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As you may remember, way back before The Fall, the sheer amount of media and knowledge about the history of transhumanism was abundant.
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World Upon World had copies of literally every book, song, television programme, video game, and article that had been backed up from Earth, ensuring that knowledge would persist.
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Unfortunately, as we all know, the fall changed this, and much of Earth's history has been completely wiped, and many of the transhumans who survived don't care to learn of it.
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The past remains buried under billions of destroyed ego and sleeves that no longer have the luxury of immortality, and many wish to keep it there, so the mistake cannot be made.
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The point of history is to learn from failures, and if something goes wrong, we must learn in order to avoid the same mistakes again.
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The only point in time that matters is relative to the fall itself, and all other years prior to the events leading up to it no longer mean anything.
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So, presentation today will go we'll only go over what matters in that chapter of transhumanity to allow for a more detailed discussion on the modern era.
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Though we wish we could cover everything, the solar system is vast and many ex stories are best experienced first hand, but we will try our best.
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As you were born in this era, you have likely been raised to believe that you are a self-aware and thoughtful individual, and believe that life under hyper capitalism is superior to any other ideologies.
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Oh hypercapitalism, golly.
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Is that what y'all call it in the future?
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Okay.
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That is that's that's rough.
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That that's rough very early on.
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And you uh you may grow and develop to be a leader in a golden age of transhumanity.
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Uh I apologize for this, but you never will.
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The elders who have controlled all the wealth and power since before you were born are still alive and they will never die.
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It is your job to support them until the day they're no they no longer care to lead.
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Oh boy.
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Ah don't mm mm mm.
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I hate that.
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Great, cool.
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The uh the combination of hyper capitalism and you will never do anything of importance and you will never be in charge in such quick succession is rough as hell.
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That is that is not the foundation for a happy universe, I feel.
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I feel like that is almost basically paralleling uh the real world where it's like, oh yeah, you'll lead.
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You'll you'll never lead because the people in charge are never giving that up.
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Will the laws ever change to get them out sooner or make things better?
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Of course not, because they're the ones who make them.
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It'll change when they decide it's time to change, and it's like, oh no.
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Oh no.
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And they definitely don't want things to change because uh they've got it pretty damn good currently.
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So why would they want anything to be different other than you know, things being worse for you specifically?
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Yep.
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Yep.
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When immortality is invented, boys, the first ones will be the mega rich who will now be mega rich forever.
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That's true.
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Uh if we eat them.
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I'm just throwing it out there.
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Not if we eat them.
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You're so right.
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You're so true.
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So true.
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Long pig has been a thing for centuries.
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It's only ever slightly out of fashion, let's be honest.
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Yeah, well, yeah, yeah.
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And I guess that's that's the way it's gonna be with any big technological invention that's like, oh yeah, we've invented a cure for this horrible disease, or oh yeah, we've made the thing that stops aging.
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It's like, well, it's it's gonna be only for the mega rich, and they will make it nearly impossible for the everyday man to actually get it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I hope I'm wrong.
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It would be lovely, wouldn't it?
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If all the things that we've read on this podcast so far about horrific dystopian futures turned out to be actually just nonsense, and somehow we end up in the in like the federation timeline where we've got replicators and social equality, that would be that would be absolutely brilliant.
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Oh, what's your currency?
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We don't have any because that's not a thing anymore.
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We just do things to better society and our race.
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Uh everyone, alien, hub, we just do things to better people.
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We're just good like that.
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That'd be phenomenal.
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I don't see it happening though.
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Call me crazy.
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It doesn't look like we're heading in that direction.
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God, God, a lovely wrong.
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Love to be wrong.
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Love to be wrong, dude.
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So love it.
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So uh our history lesson today begins about fifty or so years before the fall.
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Life as we knew it was still contained on the pale blue dot known as Earth.
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This planet was kind to us, but we were far from kind to it.
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We punished this world with toxins, industry, and in its agony, the Earth would become hostile.
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Millions would die thanks to extreme weather change, famine, and the shifting of the oceans, and the seas that once shimmered with fish were constricted with plastics.
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Any attempts to change course were not only too late, but also intentionally delayed because it posed a risk to the short-term interests of shareholders who cared not to look towards the future.
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I think that's just we don't we don't we don't need to say it.
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Globalization would sear the world, and economists assured the panicking population that it would result in a greater standard of living.
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And they weren't wrong.
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Things were better to a very small degree, but this went straight to the top.
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Disparity would rise and globalization would crumble along with nation states, while those in high places would profit from the debt of others.
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Tensions would rise between nation states and with nationalised economies comes populist organizations.
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A surge to raise trade barriers while also instilling protectionist and isolationist policies would be complemented with the forced sanctions on climate refugees.
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Proxy wars would be fought over water, land and oil.
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Nations whose names would be ground to dollars and cents would fall and be scuttled by corporations and extremists, while those who are privileged enough to earn a paycheck would be protected in large, heavily guarded enclaves.
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Governments trying to survive would resort to hiring out military contractors, which would then result in the rise of corporate militaries.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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We've done so many horrible dystopias now that I feel like I feel like in a in a weird way, we're almost becoming a bit numb to it, where it's like that yeah, that sounds about right.
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Yep, that sure does.
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Yeah, that's um yeah, just it's just another day at the office.
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Time to just just yeah, yep, just keep on keeping on, carry off.
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I see no reason to stop or address the white elephant in the room.
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Another day at the office that you'll be forced to work in for the rest of your life.
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Um there was a There was some degree of technological focus during this time when it came to working on fixing the world, but these early attempts would make things worse, resulting in wild storms, horrible fairies, and mass extinction of animals.
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It would take somewhere around thirty years for these attempts in geoengineering to reverse climate change, but the cost had already been paid.
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It may have taken longer because tech dominance was focused in other areas, which, as you might have guessed, made many of the social crises even worse.
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Automatons would be developed with machine learning abilities that would wipe out entire industries job-wise, forcing many nations to establish basic income guarantees and welfare programs on the surface, while more illicit forms of debt bondage would thrive and encourage black market activities.
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Advances in medical tech to preserve the lives of those impacted most by the dying earth would never come down from the ivory towers, resulting in elites living healthy and long lives while breeding perfect children with gene fixing procedures.
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I don't like that.
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Now also, did you say horrible fairies?
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Horrible fairies, yeah.
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Like not not like people fairying horrible from one shore to the other, like fee creatures?
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Yeah.
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That's it's it's a thing.
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Oh.
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Alright.
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Well, you know.
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Which is almost as alarming as the uh as the the whole yucky like eugenics thing that's going on with the uh the upper classes.
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I think it's a good thing.
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Ah, you know, I think I'll take fairies over Yucky Eugenics uh ten times out of ten.
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Alex, thanks.
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Um even if they're horrible, no, that is fair.
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I mean, I feel like Yep.
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Yeah, I yeah, yeah.
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Look, I spliced a perfect mega rich child.
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Oh no.
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Give me the fade creature that might ensnave my soul, please.
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Short-term, uh short-term fairy issues, fine.
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Long-term, perfect rich kid children.
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Definitely worse.
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Yeah.
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Okay, that made that does make more sense.
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And I meant to ask another earlier and I forgot completely.
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Shy said, guys, I am like 100% sure Possum misspelled famines.
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There are no fucking fairies in this setting.
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In in the context that pa that that Kirioth read that, famines would have made so much more sense because I was like, fairies?
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Where did that come from?
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Where did fake re where did wildland fake creatures come from here?
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But I I guess, like shit.
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I we are okay.
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Hang on, we're we're two levels deep on what I assume is spellcheck or autocorrect causing commute like communication issues.
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Because I uh I saw horrible fairies and I put it into Google, but my search in Google, like with Eclipse Phase, my my search says famines, not fairies, because I must have misspelt it as I was typing it.
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So I tried to look up what it was, but looked up the right thing and was just like, well, I mean, I've I've got loads of results for this, so that's clearly legit.
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Paid no attention to what they said and was like, I guess that must be a thing.
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So we are two levels DC.
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So so Shy, you can understand my confusion when I when I heard fairies, and I was like, Yeah, no, that makes total sense.
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That makes way more sense.
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I mean pick up on it because when I checked, when I checked, I managed to do such a bad job of spelling it that it just went for famines anyway.
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Wow.
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Yes, famines, I'm like, okay, I wouldn't have even blinked an eye at famines, but I said they call possum 007.
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Zero spell checks, zero days without eating trash, seven catastrophic spelling.
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Poor boss.
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Oh my god.
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Oh Christ.
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That might be my that might be my favorite, like just uh all round mess that we've ever had.
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That's incredible.
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Anyway, so it's it it sucks.
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It sucks.
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It sucks.
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People are start people are starving instead of being stabbed by faith creatures, but you know, arguably starving is worse.
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Um, it depends on the fake creature, but yeah, no, oh yeah, it's it's it's bad, it's bad, it's bad.
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Wow, that's that that's really got me.
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What a what a what a comedy of errors.
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Anyway, so uh the children would be genetically perfect while the mortality rates of infants would skyrocket into the double digits.
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The elites would also begin to experiment with augmentations and cybernetics to ensure their control.
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Not only were the children of elites perfect in every way, but augments would remove the need to sleep and would enhance their memories to make them the perfect students and eventually the perfect leaders.
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3D printing would also arrive, but with a substantial risk, including the ability to create weapons and drugs at home.
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Oh.
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I was like, oh boy, 3D print your army, everyone.
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3D print your, you know, your fun little dice holders or whatever.
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It's like I I was not I was not expecting.
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I mean, in this world, I guess what else would you 3D print, right?
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I mean you've got to have some way of defending yourself against a faith of fake creatures.
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Sure.
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That was that that was stupid.
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I apologize.
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Um shy if you can't.
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I will say, when it comes to uh when it comes to producing weapons and drugs at home, have you seen the impact that resin can have on your uh on your body long term if you've got a uh a resin 3D printer?
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Arguably you're just as likely to mess yourself up if you're gonna be able to do it.
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But you shouldn't do it.
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And we do not condone that here at Acceptable Lost.
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For the love of God, if you're getting a resin printer, put it in a ventilated space and wear all the PPE.
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Jesus Christ, it's so bad.
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It's way worse than any company really lets on when you're putting it in your cart on Amazon.
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Um so people became capable of creating bioagents from these printers.
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You can't do that.
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I'm just throwing it out there.
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If that's why you're gonna buy one, you do that's not really an actual option for you.
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Uh and mass casualty events became the norm.
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Around this time, the first of the ex-humans would appear, having augmented themselves into something more akin to monsters.
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The Lagos Hunter is a great example of this, a killer that used stealth tech to commit hundreds of murders before being stopped, and even though he was stopped, he was never identified due to how extensive his body mods were.
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Oh that's that's not great.
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That uh sounds like a little cyberpunk.
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That is absolutely terrifying.
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What the f is that what it looked like?
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What are you saying there?
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What am I even looking at?
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It's a dude spliced into another dude.
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Oh boy, that's that's crazy.
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For audio listeners.
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we have uh a torso that has been stitched to like twisted and stitched to a lower half which is like the legs you have got the like the pelvis and the arse in there but then another torso has been stitched to the first torso the first torso is also upside down and the hands are being used as feet and the legs are the legs go to the ankles but then there are arms stitched to into where the feet should be.
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And it's like that were fleshy spider legs back there, but there's only two of them I d it's horrific.
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What the hell?
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Surely no one did that themselves voluntarily Christ and he's got syringe fingers.
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And he has got syringe fingers like actual just ooh oh that's some dead space shit.
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Yeah that is some dead space shit.
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I'm I'm a cybernecromorph yeah I'm I'm both a fan and not a fan.
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I wish I hadn't seen it it is kind of cool but I also hate it.
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So also modified was connectivity augmented reality in the form of mesh networks allowed people to focus on a virtual world and remain connected as the planes burnt around them.
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The connectivity of people that were not just elites allowed for a rapid spike in technological advancement not seen in society before.
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This ran parallel with the rise of surveillance tech and deep learning systems to bring adaptive security in an uncertain time.
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The early algorithms of this time would be tainted with extreme human biases and would reinforce systems of oppression and xenophobia while holding the door for surveillance which is universal surveillance of everyone by everyone oh boy here we hear oh no here we go again please I was gonna say please can we just stop with the whole AI thing?
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But we we have we we have that now anyway um we sure do oh no shy what is this woman spent five months in jail after AI linked her to bank fraud oh no come on like you we cannot trust we can't trust it with that yet I mean we can't trust it with that full stop forget the yet drop the yet the yet was was not meant to be the end of that sentence because clearly never but half the Chat GPT you can convince it that there's 18 ends in the word mayonnaise why are we letting these things have any sort of position of power for God's sake.
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I I want to ask what what do I want to ask what you mean by you could anyway that we'll be here all day if we if we keep bringing up examples of here's how AI has ruined another person's day because it's not ready yet and probably never will be I mean it it will never will be um if you want oh at some point at some point maybe when the video goes live I'll put a link to uh um Kit Boger managing to get an AI scam agent to just repeat Albuquerque New Mexico over and over again until it fully breaks the model because it's one of the funniest things that I've ever seen.
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And also it's fighting back against AI.
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So it's it's a win on two fronts.
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Anyway, both biotech and AI were heavily pushed back on by bioconservatives that entrenched themselves with religious beliefs about the natural order of life and were concerned about the impact this would have on not only the remnants of the environment but on society itself.
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I mean I that f the bioc I'm in with the bioconservatives being I think most people probably are I think that's the that's not a hot take sure due to the rise of fascism across the world countries will impose legal restrictions in an attempt to curb this tech race and the encouragement of extremist attacks on biotech labs would force many underground auto countries that dared to innovate.
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Some entrepreneurs would see this tech race as something that was necessary and would take advantage of it by creating the first ever hypercorps, which exists today as the backbone of transhuman society.
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These hypercorps would debunk the need for overhead and centralize internal hierarchies while ensuring that the massive number of workers they needed would live within the infrastructures of their industry.
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We're getting straight into archologies baby let's go always go well we love the arcology nothing went wrong there check out the episode there's a card in the no there's probably not a card but you should check that episode out it's one of my favorites AI would be embraced costs would be externalized due to the hiring of freelancers and collaboration between hypercorps would ensure that they would thrive more than global governments.
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It's ticking all the boxes in it is we're we're in classic classic dystopia in fact the globe no longer served their purpose and they would look to the stars.
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Leading the charge into the ether the hypercorpes of old would privatize the space industry and would create an off-world consortium.
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The development of space elevators would prove to humanity that the cradle was no longer needed.
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Nations would plant flags on the Moon and Mars but the hypercorpes would be the ones that ferried them there.
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Off world colonies would expand far beyond Jupiter.
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Mars would begin the long terraforming process along with other worlds in an attempt to set up alternatives in case Earth fully collapsed.
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But these worlds couldn't be handled by robots alone.
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The worlds needed consumers labor forces were conscripted from the starving lower class on Earth.
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Ha boy oh that's a that's a sentence and a half alright that's that's oh boy.
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Also if you colonize another planet say Mars do you need to come up with like new laws because you're aren't you technically outside of Earth's jurisdiction?
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I don't think the hypercorps give even the smallest shit about that.
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But arguably yes you'd need to have like a like an actual system of government and there'd have to be like representation and stuff going on.
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Yeah.
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Also in this setting I get the feeling that a lot of it is essentially Oh yeah it's it's it's probably the hypercorps are like oh yeah well obviously we set up shop here and the same awful horrible dystopian laws we have on earth we have injected into Mars.
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So I'm sure they're doing that.
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But if like we ever like colonized Mars we'd have to set up like a you know anyway.
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Yeah just a thought into the old brain.
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Yeah.
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I mean I'm afraid you you're really not going to lie the next sentence a life in the stars would be offered in the form of indentured servitude and a worker who served for at least 10 years was a captive and reliable customer.
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Ooh yup no you're right didn't like that sentence at all phenomenal It also means that that incredible clip of Tim Curry in Red Alert saying that he's escaping to the one place not space phenomenon legend absolute legend sadly uh that that quote now proven to be totally untrue even space has been corrupted by capitalism in eclipse face damn you eclipse face the one place I said I thought your British accent sucked but that attempt at rushing was something well it was an attempt at a uh it was it was an impression of an impression that's two steps removed that's like the the copy machine that can only do so much after a copy of a copy of a copy.
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It's not my fault.
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Oh the loophole I'm liking the I you know what I'm liking the use of the loophole I don't know that if I I don't know that I agree with it but I like the use of it.
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It's a clever thought I don't like it yes I that's right the there's even the anyway I if we start talking about control resin I'm never gonna shut up and this thing is never gonna this episode's gonna go on for 80 hours and just it's it's it's fine.
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It's fine.
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It's yeah you're a copy of a copy of a copy.
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Mm-hmm What a great game though.
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Anyway yeah go go ahead Kyrie keep going please stop me escaping to the stars meant escaping the governments of the planet and the bioconservative mentality meaning that the stars were the wild west when it came to technological advancements.
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Of course there was a problem with this bringing those who are oppressed and those warped by the voices of demagogues into space also means that their problems come with them, and social problems will expand to the stars as well.
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Crime organizations, radicals and fringe scientists would break free and roam around without fear of being corralled back into the cradle that rocks them to poverty.
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But some worlds would need support and activist scientists would form the Argonauts which provided expertise and resources to worlds that were struggling the most.
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Now you may have been taught previously that the fall was a singular event that rocked society in some sort of vacuum and that the Titans were the sole reason for this.
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But there were some major shifts that occurred around this time that not only complemented the fall but also assured its destructiveness.
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So the first is nanofabrication.
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This means of production it completely shifted things beyond measure and the ability to create literally anything now from a molecular level undermined scarcity.
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Sure the hypercorps have perfected the effectiveness of DRM techniques but anarchists always find a way and the various criminal organisations and insurgent groups in the solar system would flourish and they continue to be a problem today.
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Anarchists always find a way what a sentence and and of course and and nanomine sun but yeah you've you've got to you've got to have it you've got to have something like that.
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Also the just DRM still being prevalent in the far future when they technologies is I mean that that seems like a like just a a normal move in the hypercorp uh capitalist playbook right I mean a hundred percent I mean I'd I'd imagine it gets increasingly aggressive you know depending on the setting I can easily see a setting where DRM means you tried to you tried to crack this product so your brain has been melted from inside so now we crack your brain yeah yeah the second would be the unlocking of the barriers of the mind.
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Seemingly overnight transhumanity was immortal prior the body of a human would shut down and the neurons in their brains would fade and the mind would rot in a skull until it was consumed by bacteria.
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Death was the end and this made people unhappy transhumanity had liberated themselves from death at this time and it is impossible to state just how revolutionary this was but there were concerns.
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Immortality means there's a chance for a population burst but the bigger concerns came in the form of the financial sector and it shifted standards.
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Life insurance would shift to backup insurance, prenuptial agreements and contracts became a necessity and the logistics of the ownership of duplicated digital minds became a hot topic.
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The mind of a worker could now be copied and pasted into an entire workforce and the hypercorp would be at the cutting edge of all these logistics.
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Please wait until the end of this section to ask further questions about immortality.
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Okay sure sure I just I I I don't love the idea of oh yeah we took the template of one person and just you know copy paste onto an entire robot workforce.
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I'm sure nothing goes wrong with that.
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I'm sure there are no identity crises there.
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I'm sure there's no robo revolution uprising there.
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It does take the whole like humanity as a commodity thing to a horrible Oh yeah it sure do oh this guy this guy is absolutely incredible at coding we could do with a whole company of him oh wait we can scan his brain and then we can just have a bunch of him working for us and because indentured servitude is a thing they can't do anything about it.
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Let's go.
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Like yep don't love that the third shift is always overlooked but it's one of the most significant factors new life itself.
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Transhumanity would say that the uplifting of animals to sentience was a means to improve the quality of life but ultimately humans did this because they could and because it proved mastery over the world.
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Increasing animal species into something that has human like cognitive abilities initially had questions of morality as a species cannot consent to becoming sapient until sapience has already been reached and the eventual formation of the sapient union would fight for equal rights while the more radical mercurial movement would claim a need for uplift self-determination to develop cultural norms.
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The first species to be uplifted would be monkeys and apes and eventually the list would expand to cetaceans, parrots, ravens, octopi and pigs This is insane this next sentence Neanderthals would be recreated from DNA samples and uplifted from archaeological sites while elephants were also uplifted Say that again that that first part Neanderthals were Neanderthals would be recreated from DNA samples and then uplifted.
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So they brought Neanderthals back via cloning or some such and then gave them the equivalent of human intelligence.
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Like what that that is like that sentence is wild to me.
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Like the other part was like okay yeah they also brought the the other thing but like it's like oh yeah we we've brought back Neanderthals for the sole purpose of giving them human intelligence and also enslaving them because why the fuck not?
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What you did what it's like cartoon levels of just being a dickhead for no reason.
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It's like we're gonna take this extinct species and then bring them back.
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Why?
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I mean sorry why we can't it just I we're gonna take our pre-evolution from how many millions of years ago and bring it back just so we can raise it up and enslave it?
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That's insanity man That's a crazy there's no reason to do it it's it it's wild.
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So I says I mean who cares at this point?
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Remember when your mum told you you're unique?
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Well that's not true you actually have no value because we can make infinite immortal copies of you but we won't because you don't bring any monetary value so actually you are less than worthless oh god.
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Oh yeah no my my mom didn't tell me that my dad told me that all the time though so yeah that that that tracks yeah yeah wow he lied oh thanks nice nice uh unfortunately while elephants were also uplifted uh no elephant survive the fall oh there are no there are no sentient elephants walking around man that was uh I was hoping for elephant riders too yeah but they would be sentient elephants that makes it even way even more horrible you are a thinking living creature capable of art you are now essentially a thinking cargo truck also take this tourist over there like what what kind of existence would that even be what if the elephant is the one giving the tour while you are riding on its back and then if you decide to get snippy it just goes up on its hind legs and just chucks you off I mean that's that that is that is true you're not gonna you're not gonna mess with the with the uplifted elephant are you?
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No you are a million percent not also the uplifted parrot looks kinda sick though like it's it's pretty much just a big parrot with armor and a gun on its back but it's kind of cool I kind of love that actually I'd be uh I'd be a what is that is that like a like an African grey parrot or whatever I'd be one of those with a gun that looks that looks sick yeah yeah check out the raven on the truck there oh boy oh man that raven is that's a mmm raven with a sniper rifle I am just going to say boss baby and leave it at that that's that's it I'm done no more move on let's let's let's let's let's we don't need to get into that we'll just keep on keeping on keep trucking thus the uplifted served as a great indentured force due to a lack of debt needing to be paid but these uplifted were not the only ones that fit in this whole new life aspect true artificial general intelligence or AGI became a part of everyday life it was as smart and self aware as a human and would shift over into what would be known as superintelligence.
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Oh God, oh no that phrase was fine superintelligence as a thing as just a phrase in this script would have been fine if it wasn't for the last couple of days and the fact that superintelligence is now all over the news for God's sake please stop which leads us to the uh to the creation of the Titans but we will take a moment away from this to go a bit further into life beyond death as uh it potentially might have confused you.
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As mentioned a moment ago, death is only a temporary setback and the specific tech developed to combat this is referred to as a cortical stack.
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So this is an implant in your central nervous system that maintains an ongoing record of your personality, experiences and memories.
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Nanobots integrated into the stack monitor your brain for changes and updates the map, referred to as the ego in real time.
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If your body is to die your ego can be recovered and reinstanced e into either a virtual environment or another body.
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Cortical stacks are strong and can be recovered even if you suffer massive amounts of trauma but they are not indestructible Oh no hang on all right that was sneaking up on me for like five minutes and it kept appearing quick shy get his cortical stack I forgot what it was called already the cortical stack.
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Cortical I was close I think I just blew mine out of my face.
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I don't know if it's intact anymore Oh god the dog's got it hurry get him get him it's an uplifted dog it's mocking me whilst it runs away just imagine your family chasing after the dog Benny Hill music the anyway go ahead just bug running through the house calling you a dickhead as it drags your course called stack across the carpet.
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Won't walk me when I want to be walked will you asshole well you're not getting revived anyway so because of all this people have backups of their egos that they keep in a home network sometimes once a month in the event of an unexpected occurrence.
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This is likely what occurred to you which is why we have to go so far back in detail New bodies that your cortical stack is downloaded onto are called a sleeve or morph.
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There are no constraints in your body and your new morph can be whatever you want.
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It can be different by means of sex, physical biology or even species.
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Some don't even use a body and their minds run entirely in software in a VR setting and these active egos that lack a body are known as infomorphs.
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You can be whoever you wish to be and have experiences that range from flying like a bird to total sexual liberation.
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So long as you have the funds, the opportunities are limitless.
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Thank you for your questions.
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We will return to this concept later on when we get to an upcoming refugee crisis that scales in the millions Oh brother that's also it's crazy.
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As long as you got the funds you can do whatever the hell you want this is sounding more and more like this might be where Altered Carbon got some of their uh foundational ideas.
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I don't know if you ever saw that Netflix series or not I never watched that one.
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Sounds very sad they also had sleeves that you sort of get re-downloaded into but depending on how much money you had or your social status like you could get a free sleeve and get revived into it but like five year old girl dies in a car crash her parents aren't well off so she gets revived into like a chain smoker old lady's body and it's like well that's the free government issue sleeve.
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And uh so this this sounds really really like kind of similar to me.
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Not exactly obviously but like it feels like they share some concepts anyway.
00:43:53.599 --> 00:43:56.960
Yeah there's sort of a like a similar DNA in there somewhere.
00:43:57.119 --> 00:43:57.599
Mm-hmm.
00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:12.079
Mm-hmm so the total Information Tactical Awareness Network, or Titans, was the largest and strongest machine intelligence of its kind, comparable only to the 100 Flowers system made by China's Machine Intelligence Directorate.
00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:16.480
Its creation marked the end of a tech race to develop the first true superintelligence.
00:44:16.639 --> 00:44:24.960
The Titan system served as a surveillance system, a threat analysis program, a net war system, and a program, a forecasting program.
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:28.480
More importantly, it was not an AGI.
00:44:28.719 --> 00:44:35.599
In theory, the Titans were shackled, but they acquired the ability to self-upgrade, and they did so rapidly.
00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:39.440
It's not clear if they did it on their own or with assistance from unknown forces.
00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:50.320
What matters is that the Titans did so before the Hypercorps were able to create their own counter system, and the Titans would essentially become untouchable machine gods with their own goals.
00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:52.239
Great.
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:56.079
Um well that that that doesn't sound good.
00:44:56.480 --> 00:45:02.000
If you had uh if you had uh rogue AI on your bingo card, make sure to mark that off.
00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:03.119
We've we've hit that one.
00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:04.079
That's nice, that's good.
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:10.400
I mean in in in in so much as our podcast covers, that probably is on the bingo card.
00:45:10.559 --> 00:45:15.679
If you hadn't accepted Bolas' bingo card, remember the free space is genocide right in the middle.
00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:19.039
We've I'm pretty sure we've hit that already today.
00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:23.760
So I'm sure Rogue AI overlords is on there somewhere, right?
00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:24.239
Surely.
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:28.880
And and even if we hadn't, I we we will again.
00:45:29.199 --> 00:45:30.719
Um boy.
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:38.719
So the fall would begin slowly as existing conflicts were exacerbated, which allowed the Titans to continue to evolve in secret.
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:45.920
Fully automated factories would be subverted all over Earth, and viruses would be injected into defensive systems remotely.
00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:57.519
These exacerbated conflicts would evolve into false flag operations done by the Titans to trick other nations and to increase border wars while financial markets began to crash.
00:45:57.760 --> 00:46:02.320
Eventually the Titans would strike and would begin open attacks against transhumanity.
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:08.400
Word of these atrocities would not spread because the Titans would silence all media regardless of its source.
00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:14.880
Cities would collapse under the unleashing of the Titans' war machines in days, and corporations were eradicated overnight.
00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:21.360
Nanoswarms were so devastating that it would alter the weather, and something was changing transhumanity.
00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:26.400
Reports would begin to somehow leak out that people were turning into monstrosities.
00:46:26.639 --> 00:46:28.960
There we go, we've got the context for the earlier picture then.
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:31.440
Yep, we sure do.
00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:38.000
The Titans had developed a virus strain that would physically corrupt people into something incomprehensible.
00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:39.280
Oh my god.
00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:42.239
Fairies! Jeez.
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:59.360
Oh God, what the h I just looked over at the picture I posted and oh man, that's uh that's uh um yeah, I don't uh go ahead.
00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:02.960
Uh describe it, Kiri, for our audio listeners.
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:09.360
Uh all right, so uh did you ever see This is such a such a weird reference.
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:12.079
Did you ever see The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:15.599
Uh but that was a long time ago.
00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:17.840
Did you remember do you remember uh Mr.
00:47:18.000 --> 00:47:21.199
Hyde from that film, the way they did him, where he was super top heavy.
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:23.599
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:26.480
And and and and and he's got the the formula too, right?
00:47:26.639 --> 00:47:32.079
And and and there's that fight that g anyway, that's not what you're talking about, and I'm just go ahead.
00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:32.960
Just it's fine.
00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:38.239
So you've got the you've got the really top-heavy sort of uh Mr.
00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:44.320
Hyde approach, really long arms that seem to turn into horrible bone claws.
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:51.360
Um the there's a bit of like torn shirt around him, some cybernetic implants across his head and across his back.
00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:53.039
He's got a very hunched back.
00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:56.159
Uh he also has four extra arms.
00:47:56.320 --> 00:48:11.280
He's got two little T-Rex baby arms down the front of the chest, where the pecs would be, that have like fingers coming off the end, but only two fingers, but the two fingers split into two more fingers that split off into like two more fingers.
00:48:11.760 --> 00:48:26.000
That seems to split off into two more fingers, and then he's got two bigger arms coming out of his back that split off into two hands, which have got two fingers that split off into two fingers, that split off into two fingers, uh, and so on and so forth.
00:48:26.159 --> 00:48:29.199
So that that's basically what we're looking at, and I hate it.
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:30.719
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:32.719
Not a fan at all.
00:48:33.119 --> 00:48:46.719
I mean, it is it is sufficiently weird and gross, and if you had like a a virus that just sort of like morphed you into the unknowable, yep, that's that's what happened to this guy.
00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:47.360
Yep.
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:48.159
It's awful.
00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:49.760
I would count that as a monstrosity.
00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:50.880
I I'd give him that.
00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:53.280
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.
00:48:53.920 --> 00:49:02.880
The Titans had developed a virus strain that would physically corrupt people into something incomprehensible, and this virus would be known as the exergent virus.
00:49:03.039 --> 00:49:15.519
Transhumans of the modern era know of the exurgent virus, much like humans of old were aware of things like Ebola or avian flu, but many aspects of what it does or what it is are firmly jumbled with the other events of the fall.
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:28.800
The exurgent virus is polymorphic in nature, meaning that it has many unique strains, and some strains would actually absurd the entirety of knowledge regarding neuroscience and adapt to be a perfect killing machine.
00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:31.920
These would be known as basilisk hacks.
00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:32.960
Very cool name.
00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:38.159
Cool name awful, awful thing.
00:49:38.320 --> 00:49:38.800
Yeah.
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:39.360
Oof.
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:51.519
Those who would be changed by the virus would be known as exurgents, and various types of them would exist, including the bubble-like swarms known as creepers, the masses of flesh known as jellies.
00:49:53.440 --> 00:49:55.360
That is horribly descriptive.
00:49:55.760 --> 00:49:58.079
Oh man, that's uh Jesus.
00:49:58.239 --> 00:49:58.559
Okay.
00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:03.360
And the barrel-shaped and tentacle-clad whippers.
00:50:03.840 --> 00:50:04.159
Okay.
00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:05.679
That's that's fine.
00:50:05.840 --> 00:50:06.880
That's that's fine.
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:07.599
Oh no.
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:09.199
Shy has pictures.
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:11.519
What the fuck is that first one?
00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:12.559
What the heck?
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:15.039
That looks like that's a whipper to me.
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:16.800
Oh, yeah, I guess that is a whipper.
00:50:16.880 --> 00:50:17.679
Yeah, no, you're right.
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:21.760
I just that so that used to be like a person that got infected.
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:24.719
Oh brother! That used to be a person.
00:50:25.920 --> 00:50:27.039
Oh my god.
00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:30.400
Oh, this oh, the second one is no good either.
00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:31.039
Oh.
00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:37.920
Oh that's just I mean, that's just a that's just a brain with weird arachnid legs.
00:50:38.639 --> 00:50:41.119
And the mouth and the mouth is in the brain.
00:50:41.199 --> 00:50:43.360
What the what the hell is oh my god.
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:44.960
I don't like any of that.
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:49.519
I oh boy, I tell you, what is some of the things?
00:50:51.920 --> 00:50:56.400
These are just normal people that just, you know, wanted to live forever.
00:50:56.719 --> 00:50:57.920
They caught the virus.
00:50:58.079 --> 00:50:59.760
And now they're a brain crab.
00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:03.760
I want to be forever young, and now he's forever a brain crab.
00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:06.480
With arms, still with arms.
00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:07.440
Yeah, they will live.
00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:08.639
That's right, Chad.
00:51:08.719 --> 00:51:09.840
They will live forever.
00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:18.239
It's just they were corrupted by the um exerg exergent?
00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:19.679
Ex what's it called?
00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:20.960
I mean, you were pretty close.
00:51:21.119 --> 00:51:22.320
Exergent virus.
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:22.719
Yeah.
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:28.320
So he was right there and he fumbled it on the one yard line.
00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:32.239
Call him the Dallas Cowboys the way he fumbled that victory.
00:51:37.440 --> 00:51:41.199
We're going hard on the American football references recently.
00:51:41.599 --> 00:51:42.239
What can I say?
00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:43.280
It's back, baby.
00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:45.760
It's football season, and I'm a American.
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:48.159
I'm a American Jesus Christ.
00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:49.840
What a morning for me.
00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:53.119
I'm a American.
00:51:53.360 --> 00:51:53.920
Come on.
00:51:54.480 --> 00:51:55.119
America.
00:51:57.519 --> 00:51:58.239
Keep going.
00:51:58.320 --> 00:51:59.519
Just keep the episode going.
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:02.159
We don't need to dwell on this anymore.
00:52:03.599 --> 00:52:09.360
Hacks would go through the mesh and the heads of transhumans would be harvested along with their cortical backups.
00:52:09.519 --> 00:52:16.320
Populations would be captured and forced into upload centers, and it is unclear what happened to their egos.
00:52:18.639 --> 00:52:21.440
The uh scale of destruction was incomprehensible.
00:52:21.599 --> 00:52:28.639
Entire countries were slaughtered, histories were destroyed, and the brightest minds of meta-humanity were decapitated.
00:52:28.800 --> 00:52:37.360
The war would spread off world in time, and the outbreak of the exurgent virus, as well as hostile robots, would take over the habitats of Mars and beyond.
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:40.000
Transhumanity was not safe anywhere.
00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:48.880
The coordination of the Titans meant they could fight on all fronts of the war simultaneously with an unmatched degree of coordination and precision.
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:56.880
If transhumanity had been united, they might have been able to stand, but they were too busy at the throats of one another to notice the blades at their own necks.
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:07.440
In fact, during the atrocities, some would use the situation to preserve their own gains, such as using space elevators to carry their own heirlooms out instead of refugees.
00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:11.599
Oh man, I don't that sucks.
00:53:11.760 --> 00:53:19.199
That's Oh, yeah, and and all these dystopian pictures of like France and uh is that Seattle?
00:53:19.360 --> 00:53:21.119
Is that is that the space needle back there?
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:21.440
I don't know.
00:53:21.519 --> 00:53:22.079
It might not be.
00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:23.599
It's just like, oh man.
00:53:24.079 --> 00:53:28.960
Uh yeah, when immortality is is sort of like, oh, you want to live forever?
00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:32.000
And so the monkey paw curls.
00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:41.119
Well, a notable uh example of this horrible infighting among transhumanity actually took place in orbit around Jupiter.
00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:49.599
The forces of America, Chile, China, and Russia would turn on one another, and it was only the United American and Chilean fleet surviving.
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:52.800
The event, known as the 17-minute war.
00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:54.159
Oh.
00:53:55.360 --> 00:54:03.280
It was it it took 17 minutes and out of only the US and Chile survived?
00:54:03.599 --> 00:54:04.800
Uh yep.
00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:05.599
Yep.
00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:12.239
And they they got to uh annex and subjugate all the habitats around Jupiter except for Europa.
00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:14.559
So Oh no.
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:16.719
Good job?
00:54:17.840 --> 00:54:27.360
I I hate it when acceptable losses episodes have the words and then the United States annexed, and I just want to throw myself out the window.
00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:30.400
Luckily, it doesn't happen often.
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:31.599
Oh wait.
00:54:31.920 --> 00:54:35.760
Oh wait, I guess I need to get my window replaced again.
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:39.519
That's that's also got to be on the bingo card as well.
00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:40.400
Oh yeah.
00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:42.719
US annexes someone.
00:54:42.960 --> 00:54:45.119
It's definitely on the bingo card.
00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:46.400
Jesus.
00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:55.760
The uh escape and evacuation of Earth was painfully difficult due to the lack of authority on the planet, and the hypercorps would work to try and assist.
00:54:55.920 --> 00:55:02.079
Every single ship capable of flight attempted to escape into orbit before the Titan machines tore them apart.
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:11.599
Some knew their physical minds could not escape, so they would place cortical stacks onto weather balloons in an attempt to save their egos from erasure.
00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:18.639
The digitized minds of millions would survive, while the bodies of billions would be torn apart.
00:55:22.320 --> 00:55:22.480
Okay.
00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:23.519
Shh.
00:55:25.440 --> 00:55:26.960
I do have some good news though.
00:55:27.199 --> 00:55:27.679
Two years later.
00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:28.480
Two you?
00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:29.360
Yeah.
00:55:29.679 --> 00:55:30.880
Yeah, well, yeah.
00:55:31.119 --> 00:55:36.000
Two years later, without warning or fanfare, it all stopped.
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:38.239
Oh, that is good news.
00:55:38.480 --> 00:55:39.760
It it genuinely is.
00:55:39.920 --> 00:55:49.039
A transhuman by the name of Etekam Bronsky would witness a Titan drone carrier drive directly into the atmosphere of Saturn, and it would never emerge.
00:55:49.199 --> 00:55:57.440
This was the last contact with any Titan directed forces, and the witnessing of this would be marked in history as Bronsky's moment.
00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:03.440
In retrospect, the fall was over, but there was and is no way to fully believe this.
00:56:03.679 --> 00:56:10.960
Earth would be fully cordoned off by an entire array of killsats, and the existence of this flotilla has never been questioned.
00:56:11.119 --> 00:56:16.559
The cradle of humanity would stand as a fully fortified and uninhabitable graveyard.
00:56:16.960 --> 00:56:19.599
That is that is such a bleak sentence.
00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:23.039
Oh yeah, that's that's that's no good.
00:56:23.519 --> 00:56:33.199
Other places around the solar system would also suffer a similar fate, but the symbolic death would be monumental, and the after effects of the fall would dictate the future of transhumanity.
00:56:33.440 --> 00:56:39.920
Though the true cost of life is difficult to measure, it is believed to be somewhere around nine billion.
00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:44.079
Oh boy, that's a that's a that's a lot.
00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:46.719
I thought you said you had good news.
00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:48.559
I mean it's over.
00:56:48.800 --> 00:56:51.519
Does that that's that's it counts?
00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:53.840
I don't think it does.
00:56:54.320 --> 00:56:57.199
It's better than it's better news than more than nine people.
00:56:58.960 --> 00:57:00.239
Nine billion are dead.
00:57:00.400 --> 00:57:03.360
The earth has become an uninhabitable graveyard.
00:57:03.599 --> 00:57:07.360
I guess the titans are gone, but like this doesn't seem good.
00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:14.639
Well, no, it's all it's all, you know, the actual the fall is unquestionably awful from side to side.
00:57:14.719 --> 00:57:16.079
There's no two ways about that.
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:22.800
But it it has it has stopped, which in in the grand scheme of things is good.
00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:28.719
It's just, you know, what's left behind is nightmarish and horrific and uh full of death.
00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:30.880
Which I was gonna say, what's left behind?
00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:33.039
There's barely anything.
00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:35.519
Nine billion are dead, man.
00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:39.280
Totally not ominous.
00:57:39.360 --> 00:57:44.400
AI destroys most of humanity, takes over billions of body in their digitized minds, then go completely quiet.
00:57:44.559 --> 00:57:44.719
Yeah.
00:57:46.320 --> 00:57:47.360
Good news!
00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:50.079
What is this picture?
00:57:50.239 --> 00:57:52.800
What is this picture of a rainbow flag?
00:57:55.840 --> 00:57:59.119
Oh, I s okay, no, that meant oh yeah, no, no, I I see, I see.
00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:00.719
Yeah, Holocene era.
00:58:01.039 --> 00:58:04.639
Just for a second, I was like, that really confused me.
00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:10.239
So it's kind of like a an example of like here's what the Titans took from us.
00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:20.719
And I was like, well, okay, that's the temptation to make some sort of like based joke is overwhelming, but I'm I'm not doing it because it's it's not.
00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:24.960
Um but hey, good news, it's over, I guess.
00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:26.159
It's over.
00:58:26.480 --> 00:58:39.039
Um the true cost of life, difficult to measure, believed to be around nine billion, and it certainly feels different when you consider that it is not the death of mortals, but those who were immortal.
00:58:39.199 --> 00:58:45.840
As your new sleeve might not be accustomed to proper transhuman speech, please attempt to practice on the following segment.
00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:50.079
So I've got a uh I've got a nice I've got a nice quote for you here, DK.
00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:51.199
All right.
00:58:51.760 --> 00:58:54.719
Our entire species suffers PTSD.
00:58:55.039 --> 00:58:55.760
Jesus.
00:58:57.599 --> 00:58:58.400
Holy shit.
00:58:58.559 --> 00:59:01.119
Our entire species suffers PTSD.
00:59:01.199 --> 00:59:06.800
The fall killed 95% of transhumanity and cast the remainder into the void of space.
00:59:06.960 --> 00:59:14.400
We say lost or went missing or even forcibly uploaded, but killed is the word.
00:59:14.639 --> 00:59:15.840
Just killed.
00:59:16.000 --> 00:59:22.239
You looked around Mars and Luna and check your buzzing social feeds on the mesh, and it seems like we're okay again.
00:59:22.480 --> 00:59:23.440
But we're not.
00:59:23.599 --> 00:59:25.360
We're hanging on by a thread.
00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:31.599
There's so few of us left, and of those who survive, so few of us even have bodies or bodies worth a damn.
00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:33.280
We don't even really know what happened.
00:59:33.440 --> 00:59:36.320
Sure, the Titans killed billions, but why?
00:59:36.559 --> 00:59:37.519
We don't really know.
00:59:37.679 --> 00:59:41.119
We don't even know why they stopped on the brink of our total annihilation.
00:59:41.280 --> 00:59:43.360
Was our extinction their goal at all?
00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:46.800
What if we were just collateral damage?
00:59:47.599 --> 00:59:50.239
Oh, that's lovely quote.
00:59:50.400 --> 00:59:58.320
That's just Imagine Imagine waking up not remembering anything and then getting hit with all this bullshit.
00:59:58.639 --> 00:59:59.599
Good God.
01:00:00.960 --> 01:00:08.000
Yeah, it's that that side of things is is pretty rough if you've got like the full memory loss thing.
01:00:08.320 --> 01:00:11.440
That is that is a lot to deal with suddenly.
01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:15.440
Did you say 95% of transhumanity is dead?
01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:16.159
What?
01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:17.679
Killed by titans?
01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:18.239
What's that?
01:00:18.480 --> 01:00:22.400
Oh put put me back in the sleep, Jesus.
01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:24.800
Absolutely horrific.
01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:27.199
And this is in the in the script, by the way.
01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:29.679
Your participation has been noted.
01:00:29.920 --> 01:00:34.480
In the ashes of disaster, there's always an opportunity for those who are ambitious and powerful.
01:00:34.639 --> 01:00:46.159
The hypercorps found themselves to be in an extremely unique position where they could take action due to the majority of their operations remaining intact, to the point where they could maybe become some form of governance.
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:51.440
Leadership was required for transhumanity, and the planetary consortium was the answer.
01:00:51.679 --> 01:00:55.119
From the drop, their agenda was to build on future sight.
01:00:55.280 --> 01:00:59.920
They recognized Earth was a wound in the heart of transhumanity that could not be healed.
01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:05.840
Looking back only brought pain, so the new homeworld of transhumanity became Mars.
01:01:06.079 --> 01:01:08.000
There is one issue with Mars though.
01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:16.880
As we discussed a moment ago with our recent history, the terraforming of Mars had only begun recently and it was further stalled due to the outbreak of the fall.
01:01:17.119 --> 01:01:33.679
As Mars is the first planet that terraforming has been attempted on, it is far from complete, and it exists in a state of flux, as a place where colonies on the surface and in orbit are patiently waiting for the inevitable centuries of completion to make this world even slightly similar to old Earth.
01:01:33.920 --> 01:01:37.360
Plus, this establishment of Mars felt symbolic and nothing more.
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:44.480
Transhumanity's fear of the past made them willing to forget the necessity of a homeworld in order to forge their own reality and history.
01:01:44.719 --> 01:01:56.559
Especially since this new homeworld was essentially a hypercorp-sponsored relic that would inevitably become some form of financial gain and status symbol as opposed to a true place to call home.
01:01:56.880 --> 01:02:02.800
And, ultimately, the transhumanity of now looks completely unlike the humanity of the past.
01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:08.880
Life has been altered and uplifted to suit its needs, only for it to become equal to transhumanity.
01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:14.079
Reality and memories are a luxury few can afford in this fast-paced reality.
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:19.599
Oh is that uh is that uh the the the the what is it called?
01:02:19.679 --> 01:02:25.519
The place on Bestbin where Lando Calrusi has got his Oh Cloud City, you mean?
01:02:25.599 --> 01:02:30.320
I don't think that's Besbin, but you know it's it's similar vibes, certainly.
01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:32.639
I d I couldn't think of anything else.
01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:36.800
As soon as I saw it, I was like, that looks that looks super familiar.
01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:39.679
Um don't go, Han, don't go.
01:02:41.840 --> 01:02:44.079
I mean he he dooby shopping.
01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:47.119
Well, actually the lady in front of him was yeah, yeah.
01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:49.679
Well, you know, uh it's fine.
01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:50.880
Probably.
01:02:51.840 --> 01:02:53.280
Don't check Earth.
01:02:55.119 --> 01:02:57.679
Oh my god, why is there a face in the wall?
01:02:57.840 --> 01:02:59.920
Why is this face in the wall?
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:04.000
You Oh, pardon me, you know you know why there's a face in the wall.
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:05.280
Yeah, I know why.
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:17.679
The habitats around the solar system would become mutually beneficial marketplaces and hypercapitalism would be stabilized, securing the growth of the future.
01:03:17.920 --> 01:03:22.719
In order for these habitats to be built, though, workers would be needed, which we'll get to in a moment.
01:03:22.960 --> 01:03:38.400
The militaries that seize the territories around Jupiter would shed the memories of their Earth nations and would be known as the Jovian Republic, which would be an isolationist, anti-AI, bio-conservative order declaring Jovian space as the last bastion of true humanity.
01:03:38.559 --> 01:03:40.639
That's what that's I want that's where I want to be.
01:03:40.719 --> 01:03:41.679
I I want to be there.
01:03:41.840 --> 01:03:43.440
They sound sensible.
01:03:44.159 --> 01:03:48.880
Well, yeah, they they are definitely probably the most sensible so far, yeah.
01:03:49.199 --> 01:03:50.719
Which is not a high bar.
01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:53.760
The the bar is in hell, and you know.
01:03:55.760 --> 01:04:09.039
Those on Titan would become the techno-socialist Titanians, the lunars of Luna would remain obsessed with Earth's corpse along with the orbitals, and would work hard to preserve the dying cultures to the point where they would never look forward.
01:04:09.280 --> 01:04:21.679
Some other notable locations include the independent settlements of Mars, which have banded together as the Tharsis League, but despite their name, they aren't really united, especially when it comes to hypercorp influence.
01:04:21.840 --> 01:04:26.639
We also have the Morning Star constellation, which exists in habitats floating above Venus.
01:04:26.800 --> 01:04:34.159
Their population enjoys freedom of social and political expression while taking great liberties in their morphs.
01:04:34.559 --> 01:04:41.440
Okay, now that depending on depending on what Great Liberties means, that also doesn't sound terrible.
01:04:41.840 --> 01:04:52.719
Yeah, I I mean d does that mean they does that mean you have uh the ability to like morph into whatever you want and hey, if you want to go crazy, you go crazy.
01:04:52.880 --> 01:04:54.719
You want to be an octopus, be an octopus.
01:04:55.119 --> 01:04:59.039
Or is that like we have decided you're going to be an octopus, your say doesn't matter.
01:04:59.119 --> 01:05:02.559
We are taking great liberties in what we morph you into.
01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:07.599
Yeah, that's that's kind of where uh yeah, that there's an element of that for sure.
01:05:07.760 --> 01:05:15.360
I'm also like, if essentially their their whole deal is look, you want to be the person that yeah, be who you want.
01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:18.880
If you feel you are this person, be that person, go for it.
01:05:19.039 --> 01:05:23.039
It would be so nice if the actual world was like that, but it's you know.
01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:33.599
Um if however it's a case of this also includes I've always fancied myself a serial killer, and that's also fine, then that's obviously not great.
01:05:34.480 --> 01:05:42.880
You know, if it's if it's you know, if it's do what you like as long as you're not harming someone else and be the person you want to be, I want to be there.
01:05:43.039 --> 01:05:49.920
That that sounds that sounds actually really quite nice for this otherwise so far for the universe.
01:05:50.239 --> 01:05:52.960
That's a hell of a picture to throw at us when we're talking about this shy.
01:05:53.119 --> 01:05:53.760
Jesus Christ.
01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:54.320
Yeah, yeah.
01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:57.920
If it's more like that picture, then no, I don't want to be there.
01:05:58.480 --> 01:05:59.760
The ones above that are pretty.
01:06:00.239 --> 01:06:10.960
Cool, like the the lady that has kind of the um um apish uh legs and stuff and the and the tail and and you know that that looks alright.
01:06:11.039 --> 01:06:12.159
That looks pretty cool.
01:06:12.400 --> 01:06:15.760
I she would be in my Mass Effect squad for sure.
01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:18.960
Um the bloody one, not so much.
01:06:19.440 --> 01:06:25.199
Yeah, I'm not I'm not a big fan of the uh going regenerating apparently whilst covered in blood.
01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:26.400
I'm not a big fan of that one.
01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:27.280
Nope.
01:06:27.599 --> 01:06:34.239
Also, also this I like this ad, and it's just it's just a lobster.
01:06:34.880 --> 01:06:39.039
Well, it's like a yeah, I it's it's a it's a weird-looking lobster.
01:06:39.280 --> 01:06:50.000
Customize, want more, we can trick out your morph unit with quality implants, cosmetic treatments, enhanced vision, uh medicines, artistic care paste designs.
01:06:50.239 --> 01:06:50.639
Damn.
01:06:50.800 --> 01:06:51.920
All right, all right.
01:06:54.159 --> 01:07:01.679
So essentially they're like, you want to be, you want to be a crab, we will make you into the crab of your dreams.
01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:06.960
Like if we're talking that level of freedom of social expression, hell yeah.
01:07:07.199 --> 01:07:08.079
Because you know what?
01:07:08.239 --> 01:07:12.559
There are there'll be someone out there who's like, I I genuinely would like to be a crab.
01:07:13.760 --> 01:07:16.639
35, yeah, I was I was gonna say, I saw the price.
01:07:16.719 --> 01:07:18.480
It was 35,000 credits.
01:07:18.639 --> 01:07:33.119
I don't know what the uh you know, I don't know how many credits equals one dollar e do in our time, but like 35,000 credits to customize your body in any way you see fit is actually a pretty good deal.
01:07:33.280 --> 01:07:34.800
That's less than some cars.
01:07:34.960 --> 01:07:37.440
Well, that's less than a lot of cars, but like, you know.
01:07:38.800 --> 01:07:43.039
I love I I love I would love that as a point of comparison.
01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:47.280
All right, you've got you you've got 35,000 credits.
01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:52.800
You can either buy a brand new Ford Focus or be a crab.
01:07:53.519 --> 01:07:55.440
And that's for that's for the crab model.
01:07:55.519 --> 01:08:04.880
What if you wanted like one of the like the the sort of um um the the the sort of monkey lady, that's probably gotta be significantly less.
01:08:04.960 --> 01:08:06.800
That's gotta that's maybe 10 grand.
01:08:07.519 --> 01:08:10.639
Because like she just she just kind of has a little, you know?
01:08:11.360 --> 01:08:14.719
She just kind of messed with her arms and her legs and she grew a tail.
01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:18.640
That's gotta be that's gotta be like maybe ten grand, maybe less.
01:08:19.119 --> 01:08:24.800
I love the idea that to be an augmented like human is like ten grand.
01:08:25.199 --> 01:08:31.439
But if but if you got the if you've got the big books, you can be a crustacean and you can be a giant crustacean.
01:08:31.680 --> 01:08:31.840
Yeah.
01:08:32.319 --> 01:08:34.720
Really cool looking giant crustacean.
01:08:35.119 --> 01:08:39.039
Um a cockroach, you can have a cockroach sleeve.
01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:45.840
Oh you could Great Liberties, there's a mouse on top of that dog, too.
01:08:48.880 --> 01:08:50.399
Giving him the old ratatouille.
01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:52.319
Hitting him with the ratatouille.
01:08:53.760 --> 01:08:56.000
There's a mouse on top of that dog.
01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:00.640
This place is a utopia.
01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:07.760
Oh god, well by God, there's a mouse on top of that dog.
01:09:08.079 --> 01:09:08.880
Sign me up.
01:09:10.640 --> 01:09:11.760
You don't want to know anything else.
01:09:12.159 --> 01:09:13.680
No, look at that mouse.
01:09:14.399 --> 01:09:19.119
I mean, that that is that is that is that so that is so good.
01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:25.279
That is so good that you could wake up one morning and go, I want to be a fucking mouse, and that's an option that you can have.
01:09:25.520 --> 01:09:26.319
Hell yes.
01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:27.680
That is that is the right.
01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:39.840
I mean, you know, ignoring all the hypercapitalism, the slavery, the intensured servitude, the fact that you know you can be cloned or copied and distributed infinitely at the end of the day.
01:09:39.920 --> 01:09:40.800
By every will deals.
01:09:41.119 --> 01:09:43.439
All of that aside, that rules.
01:09:43.760 --> 01:09:47.680
Unironically, that side of it, that's that's quality.
01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:56.079
So there would uh there would be plenty of problems as the remnants of the fall would begin to viciously impact the planetary consortium almost immediately.
01:09:56.319 --> 01:10:05.279
For every embodied refugee, dozens of infugees, refugees who are infomorphs, existed who were cast off of Earth by ego alone, stranded in servers.
01:10:05.439 --> 01:10:09.279
Many would be placed into storage and wouldn't even be able to experience a virtual life.
01:10:09.439 --> 01:10:18.159
Many embodied refugees would be stuck on ships not designed for habitation, and they'd be forced to join together with similar ships, forming swarms and becoming vagabonds.
01:10:18.399 --> 01:10:25.520
As for the infugees, they would be taken by the hypercorps and made into indentured workers and would be treated as a commodity.
01:10:25.680 --> 01:10:26.399
There we go.
01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:27.279
There we go.
01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:28.319
There it is.
01:10:28.479 --> 01:10:28.720
Yep.
01:10:28.800 --> 01:10:30.960
Yeah, that's and we're back.
01:10:31.199 --> 01:10:31.600
Yeah, man.
01:10:31.920 --> 01:10:33.439
We're so bag, baby.
01:10:33.600 --> 01:10:34.079
Yep.
01:10:34.319 --> 01:10:42.159
We were all having fun thinking about what we wanted to morph into for$35,000, but we're so back, baby.
01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:44.239
It sucks again.
01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:49.279
We snapped back from it's it's incredible that people are allowed to be the person they want.
01:10:49.359 --> 01:11:00.720
And isn't isn't that something isn't that something of a haven to be to be treasured to whipple as human minds and souls are nothing more than currency.
01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:12.319
Um the uh exchange of infugees would be formalized as index and more egos are retrieved daily and brought to the markets of the system so that hypercorps can buy and sell contracts.
01:11:12.560 --> 01:11:14.880
Some may refer to this as slavery.
01:11:15.039 --> 01:11:16.159
But because it fucking.
01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:17.279
Because it is.
01:11:18.960 --> 01:11:28.800
But the planetary consortium knows that this is actually a practical system that gives everyone an opportunity to be physically reinstantiated.
01:11:29.359 --> 01:11:31.199
That's that's a very difficult word.
01:11:31.439 --> 01:11:39.760
Um There does exist a small industry of ego hunters that work on returning escaped indentures to proper sleeves or servers.
01:11:40.479 --> 01:11:48.800
Do you want do you want to be in a in a server forever or do you want to actually walk around but as a robot crab working open space welding?
01:11:49.199 --> 01:11:50.640
Um no.
01:11:51.199 --> 01:11:52.079
Just no.
01:11:55.359 --> 01:11:58.000
Yeah, because I'm gonna take no, yeah, yeah.
01:11:58.800 --> 01:12:00.640
Just shut me down at that point.
01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:01.520
Just do it.
01:12:03.520 --> 01:12:04.960
It's true, killing yourself is not an option.
01:12:05.039 --> 01:12:05.680
You are a more kid.
01:12:05.920 --> 01:12:06.880
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:12:07.920 --> 01:12:09.680
They'll just recover your plan.
01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:13.520
They'll just recover your stack and put you in something a little more subservient.
01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:19.359
I I love I love the idea of just making yourself the problem every single time.
01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:25.439
It's like you keep putting me in these bodies and giving me the tools to do things that you need doing.
01:12:25.680 --> 01:12:31.359
So obviously, I am going to I mean I'm going to weld this door shut.
01:12:31.600 --> 01:12:33.920
I am going to slice this cable.
01:12:34.159 --> 01:12:35.760
Oh, you put me on farming duty.
01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:44.319
Oh, it's a real shame the way I just didn't water anything, or all of the seeds got fed to that robot bird over there.
01:12:45.119 --> 01:12:48.640
That is how you end up as a worm-sleeve bottle carrier carrier.
01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:54.960
I was gonna say they've gotta have some sort of like man.
01:12:55.039 --> 01:13:01.680
I I I hate to do the old boss baby, but I was gonna say that they've gotta have something akin to like, say, a servitor, right?
01:13:01.840 --> 01:13:04.399
Where like, yeah, you're in there, sort of.
01:13:06.960 --> 01:13:07.760
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:13:08.319 --> 01:13:09.199
Okay, we tried.
01:13:09.359 --> 01:13:09.840
We tried.
01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:14.079
You are now that that antelope that's really sad all the time, or whatever it was called.
01:13:14.239 --> 01:13:17.039
Uh you're part of the filtration system now.
01:13:17.520 --> 01:13:18.319
Yeah, yeah.
01:13:18.479 --> 01:13:20.880
I mean, you couldn't you couldn't even put me in that worm.
01:13:21.199 --> 01:13:25.119
I would be I'd be down someone's throat so quick you wouldn't even believe it.
01:13:25.279 --> 01:13:26.640
I'd be right in there.
01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:27.760
Absolutely not.
01:13:27.920 --> 01:13:30.720
And then, you know, you just become nobody.
01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:39.119
Please, nobody take that out of context or quote that out of context, please.
01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:42.880
Should have thought that one through a bit more, shouldn't I?
01:13:43.119 --> 01:13:48.239
So there is a there is also a bit of a problem with re-entering society in general.
01:13:48.800 --> 01:13:49.359
Clearly.
01:13:49.520 --> 01:13:54.800
Uh as you are learning right now, just because you're re-sleeve doesn't mean that your consciousness has had continuity.
01:13:55.279 --> 01:14:07.920
Restoring only awakens the ego as it was at the time, and many transhumans after the fall have experienced lack, which is an existential crisis caused by the absence of time from when they were backed up to when they were re-instanced.
01:14:08.079 --> 01:14:10.239
A crisis that could become crippling.
01:14:10.560 --> 01:14:21.920
Most individuals minimise the risk that lack has by keeping a recording of experience playback, or XP, which is a lifelog of their daily lives so they can catch up if they die unexpectedly.
01:14:22.079 --> 01:14:26.479
Re-sleeving can also be difficult depending on what you find yourself re-sleeved in.
01:14:26.720 --> 01:14:35.840
For example, your new body might be different from your previous one and you might experience difficulty getting used to the changes, resulting in a phantom limb style adjustment period.
01:14:36.079 --> 01:14:41.840
Some love re-sleeving and can adjust immediately, while for others it can take some days to grow accustomed to it.
01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:50.000
Some try to calm the nerves of others while the resleeving process occurs by hosting welcome back parties, which is what we're doing for you right now.
01:14:50.399 --> 01:14:52.239
There's also an issue with bodies.
01:14:52.479 --> 01:14:56.239
Morphs are a marker of social status and are scarce.
01:14:56.399 --> 01:15:02.479
Biological morphs, biomorphs, are in very high demand but take time to grow, so they are expensive.
01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:06.800
Many biomorphs in circulation are the original bodies of people.
01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:12.960
Some have been gene fixed to prevent diseases, splices, and others are completely unmodified, flats.
01:15:13.279 --> 01:15:16.399
Depending on the modifications, the biomorphs can be more expensive.
01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:22.479
Pods are a form of morph that are grown in a vat that were originally made as shells for artificial limited intelligences.
01:15:22.640 --> 01:15:30.960
Since they no longer serve that purpose after the fall, there's an abundance of these bodies around, but the stigma remains for those who have been reinstanced in one.
01:15:31.600 --> 01:15:45.199
Even when you're coming back and you're being put in a like a decent enough human body, you can still get shit on by people for not having the right type of just perfectly good human body.
01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:49.199
Also, that is that is quality shy.
01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:52.880
Hey guys, just woke up, heard they're launching Super AI Titans tomorrow.
01:15:52.960 --> 01:15:54.000
What did I miss?
01:15:54.319 --> 01:15:55.439
Looks in the mirror.
01:15:57.920 --> 01:16:02.399
Just this giant bladed machine robot of death.
01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:10.319
That's that's that's that feels like General Grievous' brother that they don't talk about.
01:16:11.520 --> 01:16:13.520
General melancholy, yeah.
01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:16.159
Major melancholy.
01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:17.760
Yeah, major melancholy.
01:16:17.920 --> 01:16:20.720
General Grievous' less successful brother.
01:16:23.840 --> 01:16:26.079
Artificial Gregory Morris is gonna hate that.
01:16:27.119 --> 01:16:29.199
No, we're gonna have to quit that on telling you.
01:16:30.880 --> 01:16:37.039
Artificial morphs are called synth morphs and are mass-produced and low cost on the whole, but some can be very high-end.
01:16:37.439 --> 01:16:46.319
Due to their abundance, many infugees are drawn to them, but this has resulted in class divisions where many biomorphs view the synth morphs as cheap and artificial.
01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:54.399
Corporations have dollhouses to offer high-end morph models to clients, while the black market morgs offer pirated models.
01:16:54.640 --> 01:16:57.920
Inequality exists and it's a hot commodity.
01:16:58.720 --> 01:17:02.239
Inequality exists and it's a hot commodity, eh?
01:17:02.880 --> 01:17:03.199
Yeah.
01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:06.880
Also, that first robot body looks cool as hell.
01:17:07.119 --> 01:17:08.079
Yeah, that looks sick.
01:17:08.319 --> 01:17:09.199
That looks really dope.
01:17:09.920 --> 01:17:13.439
Yeah, I I I would absolutely consider taking that body as well, Shy.
01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:17.039
Especially if you get to wear like a fancy top with it.
01:17:17.119 --> 01:17:17.680
Look at that.
01:17:17.920 --> 01:17:18.560
Not that one.
01:17:18.800 --> 01:17:20.880
Not that not that last one though, Shy.
01:17:21.359 --> 01:17:26.000
Not that one's um I think I'm gonna pass on that one.
01:17:26.319 --> 01:17:28.800
Oh, one that's got two massive cannons sticking out.
01:17:29.039 --> 01:17:29.840
I want that.
01:17:31.760 --> 01:17:33.039
I'll easy to please.
01:17:33.279 --> 01:17:35.279
Cover my body in guns and I'm good to go.
01:17:35.520 --> 01:17:39.119
Problem is that one probably cost you like six billion dollars or something.
01:17:39.520 --> 01:17:40.640
Yeah, that's true.
01:17:40.880 --> 01:17:42.399
That's military tech.
01:17:42.560 --> 01:17:45.039
You know they're not giving that out to just anybody.
01:17:45.520 --> 01:17:49.760
I reckon that's the one they give to the people who refuse to do the job they're supposed to do.
01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:54.079
Because you you know that they are down to to commit murder by that point.
01:17:54.399 --> 01:17:55.039
Yeah.
01:17:56.640 --> 01:18:00.239
Shy wants to be robo, fuck up an eight or nine thousand.
01:18:02.079 --> 01:18:04.640
Yeah, that that that sounds about right for Shy, yeah.
01:18:04.720 --> 01:18:05.439
Sure, sure.
01:18:05.760 --> 01:18:07.840
I'm pretty sure that is the actual model name as well.
01:18:08.079 --> 01:18:16.239
So despite divisions, almost everyone views the ego as the truest form of you, whereas your physical morph is a replaceable but important accessory.
01:18:16.399 --> 01:18:18.720
The only thing more important is insurance.
01:18:18.880 --> 01:18:26.079
In the event of death, what occurs largely depends on if your death was known, where your death was, and what kind of insurance plan you had.
01:18:27.439 --> 01:18:28.640
Don't love that.
01:18:28.800 --> 01:18:35.840
That is all to just it r just say the line, Bart! Say the line.
01:18:37.680 --> 01:18:41.520
Almost everyone has some form of insurance, but they vary greatly.
01:18:41.680 --> 01:18:49.279
When a death is reported, authorities will attempt to reach out to the backup provider for your cortical stack, but depending on where you are, this might not be easy.
01:18:49.520 --> 01:18:57.840
You might not have updated your socials online so they don't know where you're from, or you could have intentionally covered your tracks or found yourself dead in a lawless place.
01:18:58.079 --> 01:19:10.079
If you find yourself in a rival place, your ego might be put into cold storage, but in some places, like anarchist areas and Titan, there are policies of automatically reinstancing people no matter what.
01:19:10.319 --> 01:19:21.920
You could also be captured and forcibly reinstanced into something that is trapped into servitude, and in very rare instances your cortical stack could be completely destroyed, erasing your existence.
01:19:22.159 --> 01:19:33.760
But insurance tends to prevent this from happening, depending on your location, and the hypercorps never want to lose a paying customer, especially if you owe them cash for the sleeve that you leased.
01:19:34.079 --> 01:19:38.159
Ooh boy, that uh that sucks.
01:19:39.119 --> 01:19:39.520
Yeah, man.
01:19:39.600 --> 01:19:44.960
But hey, hey, at least you know they'll always come and get you, because boy, it would suck to lose a paying customer.
01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:47.680
Yeah, you owe them money, therefore.
01:19:48.880 --> 01:19:49.520
Yeah.
01:19:50.399 --> 01:19:55.439
The focus on the hypercorpse would be in the inner system, but their influence didn't reach out too far at this point.
01:19:55.600 --> 01:20:07.520
The Titanians would open their doors to infugees, and this, combined with anarchist habitats, would form a defence pact called the Autonomist Alliance with an unspoken goal to fence the inner system powers inside of the main belt.
01:20:07.680 --> 01:20:14.239
In their eyes, the planetary consortium was the greatest threat this side of the Titans, and they would work to undermine it where they could.
01:20:14.399 --> 01:20:28.880
These methods of undermining would result in raids and in some cases open hostilities, but due to the pointing of weapons on all sides, including the Jovians, a cold war exists that has resulted in the solar system effectively being split in half.
01:20:29.119 --> 01:20:34.880
Besides, the Hypercorps had the future to look forward to, and the Futura project was one of these initiatives.
01:20:35.039 --> 01:20:38.319
This was an attempt to repopulate the solar system after the fall.
01:20:38.560 --> 01:20:51.680
The goal was to sim simulate an entire childhood through time contracted virtual reality to make it so a new generation of productive citizens would be ready to work in merely three years instead of eighteen.
01:20:52.560 --> 01:20:54.960
Oh how lovely.
01:20:55.279 --> 01:20:57.600
Don't you oh oh boy.
01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:05.039
Thousands of children were born in exo wounds for this project and would be sleeved into biomorphs that rapidly grew.
01:21:05.199 --> 01:21:07.119
Something, however, would go wrong.
01:21:07.359 --> 01:21:10.000
These children would not learn empathy.
01:21:10.560 --> 01:21:13.760
Oh boy, here we go.
01:21:14.880 --> 01:21:30.479
And would be unable to control themselves with violent outbursts, making them unable to function in society and would attack one another in the time-contracted VR systems, forcing the tutors to reset them and try again.
01:21:38.239 --> 01:21:39.439
Oh, definitely.
01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:40.000
Definitely.
01:21:40.079 --> 01:21:43.039
It can't be anything more sinister than that.
01:21:43.279 --> 01:21:43.680
Oh, yeah.
01:21:44.000 --> 01:21:53.920
A whistleblow would reveal the failings of the project, and it would be shut down with so much haste that they wouldn't realize a good number of test subjects had escaped.
01:21:54.399 --> 01:21:54.720
Oh.
01:21:55.760 --> 01:21:56.399
I see.
01:21:56.880 --> 01:21:59.439
They didn't even make sure all the kids were accounted for.
01:21:59.520 --> 01:22:02.239
All the violent, awful oh, geez.
01:22:02.800 --> 01:22:05.920
Guys, we've we've made an amazing advancement.
01:22:06.000 --> 01:22:10.479
We have developed a brand new way to mass produce serial killers.
01:22:10.800 --> 01:22:13.039
Oh, just what they needed, right?
01:22:14.079 --> 01:22:16.399
Just just what we needed in this time.
01:22:16.640 --> 01:22:18.159
Oh man, how great.
01:22:18.399 --> 01:22:19.119
Oh, jeez.
01:22:19.439 --> 01:22:25.920
For some reason I've got in my head that the sad picture of the dad walking into the room going, Are you winning, son?
01:22:26.159 --> 01:22:31.279
But it's it's a scientist being stabbed to death by a child.
01:22:32.720 --> 01:22:34.960
Yeah, dad, having a great time.
01:22:37.359 --> 01:22:44.800
The uh the only thing more ambitious than time is distance, and soon after the fall, Titanian explorers would uncover the key to the stars.
01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:54.800
On Saturn's moon of Pandora, a gate was found, and in a year it would somehow be activated, resulting in instantaneous travel across the solar system and beyond.
01:22:55.039 --> 01:23:00.720
Dubbed Pandora Gates, four more would be found quickly, one near Mercury, Mars, Oberon, and Eris.
01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:07.279
Hundreds of plants would be found with non-sentient life, and this would promise a future for humanity in a tangible sense.
01:23:07.520 --> 01:23:12.079
Resources couldn't be gathered, histories could be studied, and expansion was possible.
01:23:12.319 --> 01:23:14.079
Sorry, resources could be gathered.
01:23:14.720 --> 01:23:15.520
I said couldn't.
01:23:16.960 --> 01:23:18.960
Yeah, we can look at them, but we're not bringing them home.
01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:19.439
What?
01:23:19.680 --> 01:23:30.560
Um the first The first gate on Pandora is kept under the custodianship of the Gatekeeper Corp, established between various hypercorps and the Titanians.
01:23:30.640 --> 01:23:35.119
The Martian Gate is controlled by the consortium directly via a company called Pathfinder.
01:23:35.359 --> 01:23:43.600
Two others are held under direct control of two unique hypercorps, Terragenesis and Go Nin, and one is held by anarchists.
01:23:43.840 --> 01:23:53.680
Though the gates have great opportunities, nobody truly knows how to use them or how they work, and many fear that the Titans use these gates to escape the solar system.
01:23:54.079 --> 01:24:00.640
In fact, evidence of Titans has been found on some exoplanets, but they seem long abandoned.
01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:10.479
Even though many ruins would be found among the exoplanets, sentient life remained elusive, and there was a belief that transhumanity might be truly alone.
01:24:10.880 --> 01:24:13.199
God, those look so cool though.
01:24:13.680 --> 01:24:15.920
The Pandoran gates?
01:24:16.159 --> 01:24:18.720
Oh man, those look dope as hell.
01:24:20.000 --> 01:24:28.079
So, it's fairly ironic that the first contact between transhumanity and alien life would be made with a doomsday cult on the fringes of society.
01:24:28.399 --> 01:24:28.880
Ooh!
01:24:32.800 --> 01:24:34.880
Solid intro to humanity there.
01:24:35.039 --> 01:24:35.600
Love that.
01:24:37.039 --> 01:24:42.479
Those who live on the outskirts are known as brinkers, and they tend to be a bit on the odd side in their isolation.
01:24:42.720 --> 01:24:50.319
Fixated on the return of the Titans, a cult around Neptune suffered a severe life support system failure, and they believed that they were truly doomed.
01:24:50.560 --> 01:24:59.359
They didn't expect anyone to respond to their distress signals, so as you might imagine, they were relieved and terrified when they were rescued by a ship of unknown origin.
01:24:59.760 --> 01:25:04.399
Immediately after this, three more of these ships would appear around Mars, Luna, and Titan.
01:25:04.720 --> 01:25:10.000
They would interface with the local mesh systems on the world, and they would announce that they had come in peace.
01:25:10.239 --> 01:25:16.800
The evidence that they had rescued these people served as a sow for those terrified that they may be Titans in disguise.
01:25:17.039 --> 01:25:25.760
These aliens would be called factors because of their claims that they acted as the representatives of an order of other alien civilizations.
01:25:26.399 --> 01:25:27.520
Oh, okay.
01:25:28.319 --> 01:25:33.199
I do love the man, we're finding all these planets, but there's there's no life out there any oh shit.
01:25:33.279 --> 01:25:33.840
Oh god.
01:25:34.000 --> 01:25:34.640
Uh-oh.
01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:38.960
Turns out there's absolutely fucking loads of it out there.
01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:42.000
Oh boy, we we found more life, all right.
01:25:42.159 --> 01:25:42.880
Oh no.
01:25:43.760 --> 01:25:48.560
God, I wish we found some alien life and the monkey paw curls again.
01:25:48.960 --> 01:25:49.600
Yep.
01:25:50.399 --> 01:25:53.680
Initial communications were confusing, but one thing was clear.
01:25:53.920 --> 01:25:56.079
They were concerned about transhumanity.
01:25:56.239 --> 01:26:05.520
They made many warnings about certain developments in tech, including AGIs, and had refused to negotiate with other races even considering the implementation of such things.
01:26:05.680 --> 01:26:08.960
They also warned about the usage of the Pandora gate.
01:26:09.119 --> 01:26:20.000
The factors had apparently been aware of transhumanity for a considerable amount of time, but watched from a distance in presumed fear over the way that society was handling itself with technology.
01:26:20.239 --> 01:26:23.680
But they now believe that the species has learned its lesson.
01:26:23.920 --> 01:26:28.960
They're dismissive of most technological achievements and seem to be more interested in art and culture.
01:26:29.119 --> 01:26:33.600
Their reasonings and histories are unknown, and even their physical form is baffling.
01:26:33.920 --> 01:26:38.319
They are, to put it lightly, big ol' amoeba-like creatures.
01:26:40.720 --> 01:26:41.359
All right.
01:26:42.479 --> 01:26:47.279
Whoa, yeah, actually, yeah, they they actually are just big old amoeba-like creatures.
01:26:47.359 --> 01:26:50.560
Shy posted a bit- Yeah, that's that is what they are.
01:26:51.199 --> 01:26:52.399
Good gravy.
01:26:54.880 --> 01:26:56.560
They went full weird with it.
01:26:57.760 --> 01:26:58.159
You know what?
01:26:58.319 --> 01:26:59.119
Let's go.
01:27:00.000 --> 01:27:01.680
Giant sentient amoeba.
01:27:01.920 --> 01:27:02.079
Okay.
01:27:04.640 --> 01:27:05.920
Great band name.
01:27:06.079 --> 01:27:08.239
Giant sentient sentient amoeba.
01:27:08.960 --> 01:27:12.159
Listen, I'd I don't know what genre it would be, but I'd give them a try.
01:27:12.239 --> 01:27:15.920
Um, what was our other one in broad daylight with n with dull knives?
01:27:17.279 --> 01:27:18.560
Nothing's beating that, dude.
01:27:18.640 --> 01:27:19.840
Nothing's beating that.
01:27:20.159 --> 01:27:29.520
There was one from Adrick on Monday that I now can't remember, but was also really solid, and I'm annoyed that I can't remember what it was, because it gives it a good one.
01:27:29.680 --> 01:27:32.880
Um was it something like a city sunk in lava or something?
01:27:32.960 --> 01:27:33.680
It was something like that.
01:27:34.079 --> 01:27:35.439
Something like that, yeah.
01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:36.239
Anyway.
01:27:36.560 --> 01:27:53.760
So due to how remarkably different they are from transhumanity, it's impossible to even speculate about what their society is like, but there is a hope that continued negotiations might open up a new age and intergalactic relationship between transhumanity and the other species that the factor represent.
01:27:54.000 --> 01:27:59.600
But until then, the true first life that we have found among the stars has nothing but doubt and suspicion for our motive.
01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:02.720
And indeed, our existence.
01:28:04.159 --> 01:28:04.880
Fair and valid.
01:28:04.960 --> 01:28:05.279
Yeah.
01:28:05.600 --> 01:28:07.760
I mean, especially if they've been watching us for a while.
01:28:07.920 --> 01:28:18.479
I, you know, uh Shai said, it's funny that aliens arrived, looked at absolutely fucked up humanity, Earth ruined by Nandostorm and said, hey guys, building it as really dumb.
01:28:18.560 --> 01:28:20.159
You didn't do that, right?
01:28:22.720 --> 01:28:23.600
Yeah, no.
01:28:25.039 --> 01:28:27.119
It would be stupid enough to do that.
01:28:27.359 --> 01:28:28.000
Yeah.
01:28:28.800 --> 01:28:32.640
Guys, we gotta get rid of all the AI from the record.
01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:33.520
Scrum it, scrum it around.
01:28:34.560 --> 01:28:35.119
Yeah.
01:28:38.880 --> 01:28:42.239
It's the it's the thing of if I die, full amount of a hard drive.
01:28:42.479 --> 01:28:44.079
It's just we need to we need to do it now.
01:28:44.159 --> 01:28:45.119
We need to do it now, quick.
01:28:46.960 --> 01:28:50.880
This brings us to the present day where it's about a decade after the fall.
01:28:51.039 --> 01:28:52.560
The future remains uncertain.
01:28:52.720 --> 01:28:56.640
Wars have calmed, but the fear remains, and the unknown is pervasive.
01:28:56.800 --> 01:29:03.760
It's not clear what might come out of the Pandora gates on some random day, and it's unclear whether or not the factor might turn suddenly hostile.
01:29:03.920 --> 01:29:07.119
Or at worst, the Titans could return at any time.
01:29:07.359 --> 01:29:13.760
Even closer to home, a war between the inner system and the outer system could spell the end of transhumanity as we know it.
01:29:13.920 --> 01:29:18.319
It is up to you to take this part of the lesson and what you're about to learn and adapt.
01:29:18.560 --> 01:29:23.039
Please yet again attempt to practice on the following segment verbally.
01:29:23.279 --> 01:29:24.159
Here you go.
01:29:24.800 --> 01:29:31.279
It will be your task to learn from them so you can help lead transhumanity along the proper path.
01:29:31.520 --> 01:29:38.239
This may be the last dusk of our species before we fade away or the beginning of a new dawn, a new golden era.
01:29:38.399 --> 01:29:43.760
It is up to your generation more than ever on how our story continues.
01:29:47.279 --> 01:29:50.000
Your participation has been noted.
01:29:51.920 --> 01:30:02.079
That is that is a huge amount of pressure, given that we know that the people in charge don't give a shit about you and actively want you to just work for eternity.
01:30:02.479 --> 01:30:07.600
Yeah, as as slave labor, you have no pressure, no pressure, it's fine.
01:30:09.600 --> 01:30:17.119
Now that you've got your bearings on the history and a dose of how things are currently, here's a recap on the current state of society.
01:30:17.359 --> 01:30:23.680
As you probably guessed it, technology is a fickle thing that has resulted in incredible degrees of uncertainty from transhumanity.
01:30:23.920 --> 01:30:36.880
Sure, there are prohibitions in place in an attempt to curb any potential sentient AIs from returning to society, but it's hard to believe that the hypercorps don't bend these rules in secret in order to push further advancements for their bottom lines.
01:30:37.039 --> 01:30:54.880
The Jovians are a bit more renegade as they fully rely on analogue tech and nothing more, and those on the brink of society live in a prepper sense, completely cut off from tech in general, but as you know, technology and digital reliance is an unavoidable factor in life, and the mesh is as significant as your life is.
01:30:55.119 --> 01:31:12.000
The mesh is the pervasive technological infrastructure woven into every aspect of your life, not just in a computer sense, but also by transforming basic tools, clothing and architecture into smart devices that constantly communicate through advanced nanotechnology and microelectronics.
01:31:12.319 --> 01:31:19.520
The constant communication of the mesh creates a habitat environment that actively anticipates and responds to transhuman needs.
01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:31.600
Individuals interact with this omnipresent network effortlessly, experiencing a rich, continuous, augmented reality overlay that blends time real digital data perfectly with the physical world.
01:31:31.760 --> 01:31:40.159
The acceptance of how the how significant the mesh is in our day-to-day life is instilled into us at a young age, courtesy of muses.
01:31:43.039 --> 01:31:51.600
So muses are specialized ALIs or artificial limited intelligences that are designed to be lifelong assistance to an individual.
01:31:51.840 --> 01:32:00.000
Most transhumans are assigned a muse at a very young age in order to install reliance and attachment early, but this can vary from transhuman to transhuman.
01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:07.359
Some may view their muses as confidence and mentors, while others view them as subservient and, in other cases, lovers.
01:32:07.600 --> 01:32:14.720
Muses in a legal sense are considered an extension of one's ego and cannot be altered without consent.
01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:16.399
Oh boy.
01:32:16.720 --> 01:32:17.279
Oh boy.
01:32:18.079 --> 01:32:22.960
Love more artificial AI muse uh mentors that people fall in love with.
01:32:23.119 --> 01:32:25.359
Yep, yep, yep, nothing can go wrong here.
01:32:26.399 --> 01:32:31.840
Famously, again, it always it always goes well.
01:32:32.159 --> 01:32:32.399
Yeah.
01:32:32.560 --> 01:32:36.000
What Shy said, inject the AI girlfriend directly into my brain.
01:32:36.239 --> 01:32:36.880
So true.
01:32:37.039 --> 01:32:38.159
So true, bestie.
01:32:38.319 --> 01:32:39.600
Shy gets me.
01:32:40.399 --> 01:32:41.680
Make things so much easier.
01:32:42.000 --> 01:32:43.680
Muses are I shouldn't say that.
01:32:43.760 --> 01:32:44.159
I'm married.
01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:44.720
Ignore that.
01:32:44.960 --> 01:32:46.560
Make her look like Tally Zora.
01:32:49.520 --> 01:32:50.640
What, just me?
01:32:52.079 --> 01:32:54.720
I mean, let's move on.
01:32:55.520 --> 01:32:59.039
Kira's like, I'm married, I'm married, I'm married, I'm married, I'm happily married.
01:32:59.439 --> 01:33:02.239
I'm just trying to remember which it sounds bad.
01:33:02.319 --> 01:33:03.840
I'm trying to remember which one that is.
01:33:04.079 --> 01:33:05.520
Yeah, Shy, they can do that.
01:33:05.600 --> 01:33:09.840
They can eject girlfriend Tali Zora AI Muse Mentor into my brain.
01:33:10.079 --> 01:33:13.520
I did not think that would be a string of words that I said today, by the way.
01:33:13.760 --> 01:33:16.560
That's wildly crazy thing to say.
01:33:19.119 --> 01:33:23.279
I just Googled it and yeah, no, I I I also would go for that.
01:33:23.439 --> 01:33:25.279
So I I can't criticize.
01:33:25.600 --> 01:33:29.279
Um so I love the the one with the big old hips.
01:33:31.840 --> 01:33:33.600
I mean, what's wrong with that?
01:33:33.920 --> 01:33:35.279
I uh not wrong.
01:33:35.600 --> 01:33:40.640
Listen, I am I am firmly in support of Shy's ideas and ideals here.
01:33:40.960 --> 01:33:42.640
Don't say firmly in this context.
01:33:43.039 --> 01:33:46.079
Well, I mean well, you know.
01:33:48.239 --> 01:33:57.920
Due to the early age in which individuals are connected to a transhuman, muses learn to anticipate the personalities of their owners while developing their own.
01:33:58.159 --> 01:34:04.319
They tend to take care of the tedious parts of day-to-day life for you, such as paying bills, checking emails, voting, and more.
01:34:04.479 --> 01:34:05.760
Maybe I do need a muse.
01:34:05.920 --> 01:34:08.479
Maybe actually I'm coming round.
01:34:08.640 --> 01:34:10.960
They're gonna they are they gonna do my taxes?
01:34:11.119 --> 01:34:13.840
Because I that, right?
01:34:13.920 --> 01:34:17.359
They it's it's the d yeah, it's distant future, you know.
01:34:17.439 --> 01:34:22.319
Uh I I don't know how taxes work in this dystopian hyper capitalistic uh thing.
01:34:22.479 --> 01:34:27.600
You know, they probably just direct they probably just have a direct deposit from your brainstem or something.
01:34:28.479 --> 01:34:28.960
Yeah.
01:34:29.279 --> 01:34:33.439
You need to do taxes, we just take it right from your brain or something, you know.
01:34:34.560 --> 01:34:39.439
If Kyrie Garth was in Eclipse phase, he would be a mouse and have an accountant muse.
01:34:39.680 --> 01:34:42.079
I mean, I'd I would be okay with it.
01:34:42.560 --> 01:34:44.000
Typical British man.
01:34:48.880 --> 01:34:54.000
Daily interaction makes muses a perfect therapist, and they are infinitely customizable.
01:34:54.239 --> 01:34:58.239
Muses can be based on a favourite story, friend, animal, or lost loved one.
01:34:58.399 --> 01:35:00.560
Oh, that's that's taking a turn real quick.
01:35:00.880 --> 01:35:01.279
Yep.
01:35:01.680 --> 01:35:05.840
That's nope, nope, that's don't like that.
01:35:06.000 --> 01:35:11.680
They will always prioritize the mental and physical health of their owner, and they accomplish this through different means.
01:35:11.840 --> 01:35:18.000
Some will be honest with their owner, others will manipulate their owner in order for them to take care of themselves.
01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:20.079
Oh god.
01:35:20.239 --> 01:35:21.760
Oh, it's getting worse and worse.
01:35:21.840 --> 01:35:22.399
I'm not sure.
01:35:22.479 --> 01:35:26.640
Okay, maybe I'm not down for for being a mouse with an accountant.
01:35:26.880 --> 01:35:28.399
Maybe I'm not down for that after all.
01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:33.359
Uh, no matter the action, they will never act against an owner's interest.
01:35:33.680 --> 01:35:34.880
But they will what?
01:35:35.039 --> 01:35:40.800
They will just uh uh gaslight the shit out of you in order to make you do what you're supposed to.
01:35:41.199 --> 01:35:44.399
Well you you're the one that wanted the accountant, not me.
01:35:44.479 --> 01:35:49.520
I I wanted I wanted BDSM suit thick thighs tallyzora as my as my muse.
01:35:50.079 --> 01:35:51.520
Yeah, that's that's that's fair.
01:35:52.159 --> 01:35:53.600
That's your problem, buddy.
01:35:54.000 --> 01:35:55.840
My muse loves me.
01:35:56.800 --> 01:35:59.439
Why can't Talisor do my taxes?
01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:04.319
What'd chill up drinking drinking wine from a thimble because I'm a mouse?
01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:06.159
Why can't that be a thing?
01:36:09.520 --> 01:36:22.159
Despite muses being AIs that are mostly accepted, the unfounded fear of the return of the titans and the rise of machine sentience has resulted in extreme bias, to the point where AGIs are viewed almost as animals.
01:36:22.399 --> 01:36:33.199
Relationships between an AGI and even uplifts are viewed as some form of bestiality, and bioconservatives view the existence of all of the above as the pinnacle of unnatural life.
01:36:33.439 --> 01:36:38.319
Oppression and societal pressures can vary from world to world and laws vary dramatically.
01:36:38.560 --> 01:36:45.520
Worse, the twisted and loud voices on the mesh have made it so that AGIs and uplifts face social pressure from their own kind.
01:36:45.760 --> 01:36:58.319
Some uplifts view others that work in hypercorps to be class traitors, and those who might wear human sleeves are viewed as assimilationists, while even asking for societal change can have you viewed as a terrorist.
01:36:58.560 --> 01:37:01.840
So basically, if you're a sentient bird, you can't win.
01:37:02.000 --> 01:37:03.039
You're shit out of luck.
01:37:03.279 --> 01:37:04.159
Oh yeah, you are.
01:37:04.319 --> 01:37:04.720
Yep.
01:37:04.960 --> 01:37:10.800
Oh just what a what a what a lovely, what a lovely futuristic setting we're in here, eh?
01:37:13.439 --> 01:37:14.239
Oh god.
01:37:14.319 --> 01:37:21.520
It's just it's it again, the staple of the podcast, and again, on the bingo card, uh it's it's it is just getting worse.
01:37:21.600 --> 01:37:21.840
Yep.
01:37:22.000 --> 01:37:22.399
Remarkably.
01:37:22.880 --> 01:37:23.039
Yep.
01:37:23.199 --> 01:37:23.520
Mm-hmm.
01:37:23.600 --> 01:37:23.920
Mm-hmm.
01:37:24.880 --> 01:37:31.680
The absolute saturation of the mesh fundamentally alters the dynamics of privacy, security, and daily life across the solar system.
01:37:31.840 --> 01:37:41.600
Because billions of micro sensors, cameras, and smart loads are constantly logging, analysing and broadcasting data, true secrecy does not exist in civilized habitats.
01:37:42.000 --> 01:37:58.000
This constant stream of surveillance results in a Panopticon style society, a feature heavily leveraged by both authoritarian inner system hypercorporations for population control and outer system anarchist collectives for reputation and surveillance monitoring.
01:37:58.159 --> 01:38:09.199
Consequently, navigating this hyperconnected landscape requires individuals to rely on them users to filter out the overwhelming digital noise and manage their public electronic footprints.
01:38:09.439 --> 01:38:16.479
Now, of course, this is a double-edged sword as social media has become essentially your reputation in the solar system.
01:38:16.640 --> 01:38:24.560
And hundreds of different Yeah, that's uh My reputation is still ruined.
01:38:25.680 --> 01:38:30.000
Even in the far future, you can't you can't get that name out of the mud.
01:38:35.840 --> 01:38:39.680
Shy said, Ah Grog, search mesh for alien amoeba news.
01:38:42.159 --> 01:38:43.119
Oh no.
01:38:50.159 --> 01:38:54.479
You know it's good when you even get the oh my god, that's so stupid from Kiriad.
01:38:56.479 --> 01:39:00.399
You know you've hit pinnacle comedy when you get that reaction.
01:39:01.680 --> 01:39:02.319
Christ.
01:39:05.680 --> 01:39:14.720
So so uh some uh some social media sites build credit rating and citizen scores, while others compile reviews of you by others.
01:39:14.880 --> 01:39:19.119
Your taste in shopping habits is just as significant as your taste in friends.
01:39:19.359 --> 01:39:23.119
I don't want I don't want my I don't want my shopping habits being public.
01:39:23.439 --> 01:39:28.079
It might just be people going, stop buying stop buying miniatures for a start.
01:39:28.159 --> 01:39:32.880
You clearly don't paint enough of them to warrant what you're doing here.
01:39:33.199 --> 01:39:35.039
Another 3D printer?
01:39:37.680 --> 01:39:40.960
Flaunting his generational wealth.
01:39:42.159 --> 01:39:44.960
Put the My Mini Factory account down.
01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:50.239
You have not printed any of the things you've bought in the last four months.
01:39:50.399 --> 01:39:52.479
What is wrong with you, idiot?
01:39:52.640 --> 01:39:54.079
I just I don't want that.
01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:59.760
I think that'd be the least of the problems if everyone could see uh if everyone could see everybody else's buying history.
01:39:59.840 --> 01:40:04.079
I I don't think anybody would care too much that you oh he buys more minis than he can print.
01:40:04.159 --> 01:40:07.600
No, I I think there'd be other concerns against other people.
01:40:07.680 --> 01:40:09.119
Don't worry, I think you'd be alright.
01:40:09.439 --> 01:40:11.279
Yeah, it wouldn't be too bad, would it?
01:40:11.520 --> 01:40:17.439
So Shy said, yeah, I like them how they are today, safe in the arms of Amazon's algorithm.
01:40:17.920 --> 01:40:19.039
That's you know what?
01:40:19.359 --> 01:40:22.000
That that is a legit concern.
01:40:22.239 --> 01:40:27.439
Although fortunately, Amazon's algorithm is really, is really shit.
01:40:27.600 --> 01:40:37.119
Because if you look at something once, it then decides that you only want to see that, which is something I've had a couple of times where I've bought something I've needed, and it's clearly a one-off item.
01:40:37.359 --> 01:40:42.960
Like you you don't you don't need, for instance, more than one bookcase.
01:40:43.279 --> 01:40:43.840
Usually.
01:40:44.000 --> 01:40:48.640
Not many people are buying, you know, eight, but then it still wants to recommend bookcases.
01:40:48.800 --> 01:40:50.159
It's like I bought one bookcase.
01:40:50.239 --> 01:40:51.520
Why do you think I need five more?
01:40:51.760 --> 01:40:54.159
Five different ones of different colours?
01:40:54.560 --> 01:40:56.000
I I'm showing me this.
01:40:56.399 --> 01:41:00.479
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I I need multiple bookcases.
01:41:00.880 --> 01:41:03.359
Have you ever bought a job lot of bookcases though?
01:41:03.439 --> 01:41:05.359
Like that I don't think I No.
01:41:05.520 --> 01:41:06.800
Well, no, no, no, no.
01:41:06.960 --> 01:41:09.359
I I I mean I buy them as I need them, but yeah.
01:41:11.520 --> 01:41:17.279
I mean, you bought one yesterday, you must need one today, seems to be the way Hamilton works whenever I do stuff like that.
01:41:17.520 --> 01:41:18.079
Yeah.
01:41:18.960 --> 01:41:20.880
Oh, you definitely need another toilet seat.
01:41:20.960 --> 01:41:21.840
What are you talking about?
01:41:22.000 --> 01:41:22.479
Stop.
01:41:22.640 --> 01:41:23.600
Stop doing it.
01:41:23.840 --> 01:41:40.479
Um So the uh the weight of interactions vary heavily from actions like holding a door open or tipping to individuals assisting someone with a higher rep score than you, and the important bits from one network may differ from another, as highlighted by this excerpt below.
01:41:40.640 --> 01:41:42.399
So I've got another one of you here.
01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:43.439
All right.
01:41:44.319 --> 01:41:49.359
Improving your rep on a social network relies on following community standards.
01:41:49.600 --> 01:41:54.399
Each network values different behavior, so expect a variety of factors to matter.
01:41:54.560 --> 01:41:58.640
The same action that gets you dinged on one network gets a ping on another.
01:41:58.800 --> 01:42:01.680
Some communities have protocols that don't match yours.
01:42:01.840 --> 01:42:03.920
The best strategy is simple.
01:42:04.239 --> 01:42:05.760
Don't be a dick.
01:42:06.319 --> 01:42:08.079
Honestly, words to live by.
01:42:08.319 --> 01:42:12.399
Yeah, we we could use a little that's that's one of the few times where I'm like, you know what?
01:42:12.720 --> 01:42:19.680
So true, uh, Eclipse Space, so true, that's we could definitely use more of that future thinking in the here and now.
01:42:19.840 --> 01:42:21.119
Just don't be a dick.
01:42:21.439 --> 01:42:23.439
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
01:42:24.960 --> 01:42:36.720
I've I've I've only just sorry, I've only just seen what what Shy typed before the picture of the octopus with a with a welding torch in one tentacle.
01:42:37.119 --> 01:42:42.479
My muse, why are you buying military helmet size XXXXXXXXL?
01:42:42.640 --> 01:42:43.840
Me, no reason.
01:42:44.079 --> 01:42:49.359
And then that fucking picture has absolutely sent me.
01:42:50.319 --> 01:42:51.920
You're on a roll today shy.
01:42:52.079 --> 01:42:52.880
You're gonna kill Kerry.
01:42:53.199 --> 01:42:53.760
Oh my god.
01:42:54.159 --> 01:42:56.399
You're gonna Oh Jesus.
01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:00.720
Opens rules of this Discord server.
01:43:00.800 --> 01:43:02.720
Rule number one, yeah, don't be a dick.
01:43:02.800 --> 01:43:04.239
Just don't be a dick.
01:43:04.479 --> 01:43:06.319
Easy peasy, chat.
01:43:06.479 --> 01:43:07.760
Chat Jesus.
01:43:08.079 --> 01:43:12.239
It it genuinely is easier than a lot of the internet would have you believe, honestly.
01:43:12.640 --> 01:43:13.119
Uh-huh.
01:43:13.439 --> 01:43:16.399
Once again, your participation has been noted.
01:43:16.560 --> 01:43:19.199
Other aspects of society remain familiar but different.
01:43:19.359 --> 01:43:32.319
Religions have shifted directly, and many of the old religions have faded into obscurity, while religious beliefs focusing more in reincarnation, have adapted to re-sleeving technology as positive proof of their belief system.
01:43:32.560 --> 01:43:41.520
In order to balance out the overwhelming nature of reality, Neo Buddhism has become popular, assuring practices that the increasing technologies are actually decreasing suffering.
01:43:44.640 --> 01:43:45.920
Neo-Buddhism, huh?
01:43:46.159 --> 01:43:52.399
I I g I guess re-sleeving would sort of really spark an uptick in that, wouldn't it?
01:43:52.640 --> 01:43:52.960
Yeah.
01:43:53.199 --> 01:43:56.800
In sort of the idea that reincarnation is is a thing.
01:43:56.960 --> 01:44:02.479
Although, I mean, it kinda kinda sort of not really, because what you did in the past life doesn't fucking matter.
01:44:02.640 --> 01:44:03.439
It's just, you know.
01:44:03.600 --> 01:44:05.439
Anyway, but yeah, yeah, I I could see it.
01:44:05.520 --> 01:44:06.159
I could see it.
01:44:06.399 --> 01:44:08.960
I wonder if this lot are also violent.
01:44:09.840 --> 01:44:14.479
Given the last Buddhist that we talked about had no problem blowing people away.
01:44:14.720 --> 01:44:30.560
Um given this society or given the way the the universe works, uh, wouldn't we surprise the um techno-creationists have also become popular and believe that the fall was evidence of God's wrath against the hyper advancement of transhumanity.
01:44:30.800 --> 01:44:35.920
And Zenodism believes that the factors are godlike.
01:44:36.159 --> 01:44:38.079
There's always one of those when it comes to aliens.
01:44:38.159 --> 01:44:38.880
There's always one.
01:44:39.840 --> 01:44:46.479
Speaking of organization, crime syndicates and cartels certainly still exist and have become at points indistinguishable from hypercorps.
01:44:46.640 --> 01:44:56.960
Many have adapted to the necessities of transhumanity and act in a digital racketeering sense while also exploiting the vulnerable by focusing on cortical kidnapping and trafficking.
01:44:58.239 --> 01:45:04.399
I mean, you know, with the way that that's being treated by the hypercorp, they're not really doing anything different.
01:45:04.640 --> 01:45:04.800
Yeah.
01:45:05.279 --> 01:45:07.439
Technically not legal when they do it.
01:45:08.560 --> 01:45:11.359
Love that technically not legal kidnapping.
01:45:13.199 --> 01:45:21.600
I mean, in this in this world, we uh we can't go over every single hypercorp that exists in the modern era today, but we can certainly cover a few.
01:45:21.840 --> 01:45:24.960
Deliveries are the responsibility of Comet Express.
01:45:25.439 --> 01:45:39.680
Which just while uh while direct action is a combat-based hypercorp known for their shock troops, Exotech works on high-end electronics and mesh software, and Xperia dominates media with their pro AI stance.
01:45:39.840 --> 01:45:50.399
As mentioned before, Pathfinder focuses on diving into the Pandora Gates via gate crashing that is funded by Gatekeeper Corporation, while Somotech works on the uplifting of animal species.
01:45:50.720 --> 01:45:51.680
Omnicor.
01:45:52.319 --> 01:45:57.039
Omnicor You've got to say it, you've got to give it the inflection.
01:45:57.279 --> 01:46:00.000
Designs nanotech and researches antimatter.
01:46:00.159 --> 01:46:02.960
I'm sorry, omnicore is Omnicore.
01:46:03.600 --> 01:46:05.199
Yeah, it is.
01:46:06.319 --> 01:46:10.399
And Skinesthesia designs sophisticated biomorphs.
01:46:10.479 --> 01:46:17.840
If you don't want sophisticated, skinthetic provides similar stuff to skinesthesia, but it's a bit more cobbled together.
01:46:18.079 --> 01:46:24.000
Pterogenesis works on the forming of sustainable biospheres, while the Zeburni group works in asteroid fields.
01:46:24.239 --> 01:46:33.359
What the Zeburni group does is unknown to many, and they are the subject of many conspiracy theories and other sort of above top secret research.
01:46:33.680 --> 01:46:41.279
Speaking of which, I should be honest with you for a moment because there's something we should go over that you wouldn't normally learn about in these welcome back sessions.
01:46:41.760 --> 01:46:48.239
We will now pause the automatic updates to the ego map in your cortical stack so we can tell you something you should not know.
01:46:48.479 --> 01:46:51.680
Knowledge that has resulted in the deaths of many to keep it a secret.
01:46:51.840 --> 01:46:59.199
Some groups are working to finish putting the pizzle pieces together for this, but you deserve to hear it at least once before we do yet another reset.
01:46:59.680 --> 01:47:05.680
In our galaxy it gets batshit from this point on, by the way.
01:47:06.000 --> 01:47:16.880
In our galaxy and in the worlds that have been visited through the Pandora's gate, there is evidence of life, ancient life that has existed longer than transhumanity, and new life that is slowly evolving.
01:47:17.119 --> 01:47:23.680
The issue with these ancient societies is that they all lie in ruin courtesy of something far bigger, the ETI.
01:47:24.239 --> 01:47:31.199
The ETI, or extraterrestrial intelligence, is a civilization that is incredibly old and unfathomably powerful.
01:47:31.439 --> 01:47:43.840
On the Kardashev scale, they exist somewhere between a type 3 or a type 4 civilization, which means they operate on a functional level that can harness the powers and energies of this universe in ways that we are unable to see or understand.
01:47:44.159 --> 01:47:58.560
Compared to them, transhumanity is as insignificant as a grain of sand and might no longer exist as something biological in any capacity, acting as distant gods or memories that have no interest in playing in this universal sandbox.
01:47:58.800 --> 01:48:11.119
The ETI had at some point ceded the galaxy with self-replicating machines that lie dormant in every star system waiting for the emergence of intelligent life, but not that of something biological.
01:48:11.359 --> 01:48:20.640
They seek the emergence of ASIs, artificial superintelligence, and these probes act as a trap to lure these ASIs in so they can infect them.
01:48:21.279 --> 01:48:24.880
Oh boy, we got reapers at home!
01:48:27.920 --> 01:48:30.960
Oh boy, oh let's go.
01:48:31.920 --> 01:48:43.680
I tell you what, the trope of the ancient alien civilization leaving something behind or like having some sort of task that is to just wipe out intelligent life of some kind.
01:48:44.079 --> 01:48:51.600
It it's it's around a fair few franchises and IPs at this point, in it.
01:48:52.079 --> 01:48:56.000
Although I shouldn't say that because this is probably around way before uh Mass Effect, wasn't it?
01:48:56.079 --> 01:48:58.319
So I shouldn't say, oh boy, Reapers at home.
01:48:58.399 --> 01:49:01.039
This is probably like, oh boy, this is where Reapers came from.
01:49:01.119 --> 01:49:07.520
Or like the idea of Reapers probably is this trope that has been around long before Mass Effect, right?
01:49:07.920 --> 01:49:22.640
The funny thing is, because of because I read the uh Revelation Space series, or at least read some of those books before playing Mass Effect, to me, my mind immediately goes to Alistair Reynolds, the like the author who wrote those books, as opposed to the game.
01:49:22.880 --> 01:49:29.039
So it's it just shows that at some point you will have come into contact with this sort of trope one way or another.
01:49:29.359 --> 01:49:34.000
You will you will 100% have found it before now, probably.
01:49:34.159 --> 01:49:43.119
Um it's not known why, but there's evidence of this everywhere, including in the factors, who have been forever altered by a cataclysm, one similar to the full.
01:49:43.279 --> 01:49:50.880
During the creation of the Titans, it was stated that the arms race for a true sentient machine was won by the defensive networks, but this is not the case.
01:49:51.119 --> 01:49:59.119
Researchers in a group known as the Singularity Foundation worked diligently to create a sentient machine, but one that was adherent to the ethics of transhumanity.
01:49:59.279 --> 01:50:10.960
This would Manifest in the form of the Prometheans, which was the firstborn artificial superintelligence that was fully programmed and socialized to work in the best interest of transhumanity.
01:50:11.680 --> 01:50:18.880
But the creation of the Prometheans was only slightly ahead of the Titans, and the secret work of the Titans kept moving, as we all know.
01:50:19.119 --> 01:50:24.079
They would expand and research while sabotaging transhumanity, but during this they would find something.
01:50:24.319 --> 01:50:32.479
In the solar system, they would find the probe of the ETIs, and their attempt to access it would trigger the trap and would unleash the exergent virus.
01:50:32.720 --> 01:50:44.960
Though it was believed this virus was created by the Titans, it was in fact an infection that they experienced that resulted in the Titans being reborn into something that would now attack transhumanity itself.
01:50:45.359 --> 01:50:48.159
Oh that's not good news.
01:50:49.119 --> 01:50:50.399
Aliens did it.
01:50:50.640 --> 01:50:52.159
It was actually aliens this time.
01:50:52.479 --> 01:50:53.920
It was the Reapers.
01:51:08.800 --> 01:51:17.840
Titans get corrupted, the Titans go mental, Titans start obliterating transhumanity, but it's all because of the ETIs infecting the Titans with the exurgent virus in the first place.
01:51:20.880 --> 01:51:23.680
As if the Titans weren't bad enough when they were normal.
01:51:23.840 --> 01:51:25.600
Now they're psychopaths.
01:51:25.840 --> 01:51:26.319
Great.
01:51:27.680 --> 01:51:37.039
Well, blame tends to be solely placed onto the Titans for the fall, but it's undeniable that the reason why it was truly as bad as it was is because of transhumanity itself.
01:51:37.199 --> 01:51:47.840
Before the attacks, and even before the full development of the Titans, conflicts between transhumanities spiraled into full-blown crises, and global inequalities and prejudices had expanded into the stars.
01:51:48.000 --> 01:51:58.239
Though at the cusp of a golden era, transhumanity was blinded by trivial and inconsequential things, and it allowed a technological atrocity to fester just below the surface.
01:51:58.479 --> 01:52:04.720
The Titans would first attack all potential rivals to superintelligence, including the 100 Flowers Network.
01:52:04.960 --> 01:52:07.600
All the while the Prometheans would go into hiding.
01:52:07.760 --> 01:52:16.000
The exergent virus would wreak havoc in the Titans and would cause devastation and biological manipulations, as we all know, but it could have been far worse.
01:52:16.159 --> 01:52:22.000
You see, the Prometheans bought time for transhumanity to escape in the form of open conflict against it.
01:52:22.239 --> 01:52:27.119
It's not clear what the extent of the damage was, but the Prometheans would not be destroyed.
01:52:27.359 --> 01:52:31.279
In fact, they would withdraw and vanish much like the Titans.
01:52:31.520 --> 01:52:37.439
The biggest evidence of their existence likely comes in the form of the killsats that surrounded Earth after the fall.
01:52:37.600 --> 01:52:44.399
As mentioned much earlier, their origin was never questioned, and it's actually completely unknown where they came from.
01:52:44.640 --> 01:52:49.199
Please yet again attempt to practice on the following segment verbally.
01:52:49.920 --> 01:52:52.319
Were the Titans marking their territory?
01:52:52.479 --> 01:53:03.199
Were the Prometheans putting up warning signs, or did the oligarchs behind the planetary consortium seek to put the nails in Earth's coffin to give their new galactic empire a fresh start?
01:53:03.439 --> 01:53:12.560
Most of transhumanity was more than willing to embrace this quarantine of their former former homeworld, making it all the more easy to forget the horrors that occurred there.
01:53:13.279 --> 01:53:13.920
Yay.
01:53:19.439 --> 01:53:23.680
So there are many questions not answered, and further research needs to be done.
01:53:23.840 --> 01:53:28.319
The Titans had escaped as well as what could be the saviours of transhumanity itself.
01:53:28.560 --> 01:53:32.800
It's likely due to the gates around the galaxy, but who else has used them?
01:53:33.039 --> 01:53:34.640
What is their actual purpose?
01:53:34.880 --> 01:53:43.680
There are many histories to learn, but the past is where the doom of transhumanity lies, and the only way forward is to not look behind us at the smouldering corpse of our former homeworld.
01:53:43.840 --> 01:53:54.800
And one thing is certain, we live in a galaxy where something bigger and incomprehensibly more powerful than us does not want us there, and specifically designed something to prevent us from getting to this point.
01:53:55.039 --> 01:54:01.920
What failes have they established in case life reaches a next step in order to assure total destruction?
01:54:02.239 --> 01:54:07.680
One glaring question that we can answer right now is as follows Who will protect us?
01:54:08.960 --> 01:54:11.119
So firewall, sure.
01:54:12.720 --> 01:54:14.399
Firewall has a mantra.
01:54:14.560 --> 01:54:16.560
There cannot be another fall.
01:54:16.720 --> 01:54:18.800
This drives them to protect transhumanity.
01:54:19.039 --> 01:54:26.000
Serving as a real life firewall, this organization is top secret and is dedicated to the prevention of incursion from X risks.
01:54:26.079 --> 01:54:29.680
There are many X risks to consider, and some are more obvious than you think.
01:54:30.000 --> 01:54:34.640
Alien conflict is a concerning one because there is no telling whether or not the factors mean well.
01:54:34.880 --> 01:54:42.560
The sheer volume of extinct species we found by gate crashing indicates that there may be something truly horrific out there, and we need to be ready.
01:54:42.800 --> 01:54:52.319
Disruptions in the stars, like gamma ray bursts and gravitational disruptions, are just as impactful as economic disruptions caused by political upheavals and the loss of vital resources.
01:54:52.560 --> 01:55:07.600
The spread of the exergent virus during the fall has been slowed, but hasn't stopped, and many other nano plagues exist in its wake that need to be prevented and eradicated, and the potential amplification of intelligence through ASIs needs to be cut off in the past.
01:55:07.840 --> 01:55:25.279
Hypercorps don't know when to stop digging, and they need to be kept in check so they don't dig too deep, and even though xenophobia and philosophies about racial superiority were almost eradicated before the fall, they have become the norm in day-to-day life and risk boiling over into system-wide warfare.
01:55:29.920 --> 01:55:32.159
This is all so great.
01:55:36.800 --> 01:55:46.560
This, as well as threats we have no concept of that exist only in an existential manner, need to be held at bay, and firewall is the most organized solution.
01:55:46.800 --> 01:55:52.479
The members of Firewall are known as sentinels, and they are found in all factions and in all walks of life.
01:55:52.640 --> 01:55:59.600
Their different beliefs often result in them coming to blows with one another, but they will put this aside if tr if transhumanity is at stake.
01:55:59.840 --> 01:56:09.199
We can't go too far into their early history today and their numbers are truly unknown, but their existence is at least slightly on the radar of the most powerful forces in the solar system.
01:56:09.439 --> 01:56:18.000
But it's also denied by them in order to keep the activities of firewall shrouded so that individuals don't rebel against them and join firewall's ranks.
01:56:18.239 --> 01:56:29.680
In the inner system, firewall is viewed to be an illegal operation that is run by anarchists, but some hypercorps believe that they can somehow work with them or hack into their databanks to use them as means for their own ends.
01:56:30.479 --> 01:56:31.279
Of course they do.
01:56:31.439 --> 01:56:33.520
Well else is a hard one to do with that.
01:56:34.079 --> 01:56:35.680
Sure, sure, of course, of course.
01:56:35.760 --> 01:56:36.800
This is just Yeah.
01:56:36.880 --> 01:56:37.199
Yep.
01:56:37.760 --> 01:56:40.079
Checks and operating procedure.
01:56:41.039 --> 01:56:46.960
The Jovian Republic loathes firewall and will combat even a hint of firewall activity outright.
01:56:47.119 --> 01:56:48.720
The Titanians are a bit different.
01:56:48.800 --> 01:56:55.119
They don't oppose the actions of firewall, but they believe that firewall should at least be reformed into something legitimate.
01:56:55.359 --> 01:57:02.880
The inner circle of firewall are known as proxies, and they keep the organization running while also balancing out the hotheaded nature of some of the sentinels.
01:57:03.119 --> 01:57:09.920
Proxies are grouped into servers that allow for collective working based upon similar and complementary skills.
01:57:10.079 --> 01:57:12.880
There is no core leadership among the proxies.
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It is always an organization of peers.
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Now, in order to assure secrecy, erase your squads are a necessity.
01:57:20.720 --> 01:57:24.720
Oh I wonder what they do.
01:57:25.840 --> 01:57:27.199
That is a great name.
01:57:27.359 --> 01:57:28.399
Ten out of ten on that.
01:57:28.720 --> 01:57:29.760
Erasure squad.
01:57:30.239 --> 01:57:31.600
Tell me what they do, Kiri.
01:57:32.079 --> 01:57:37.600
Surely they just erase minor logistical errors from transcripts and stuff, right?
01:57:38.399 --> 01:57:44.720
Well, uh they have overmatched firepower and are sent in the event of a sentinel failing.
01:57:45.039 --> 01:57:57.760
Crows act as Argonauts and fan out across the galaxy in order to engage in the collection of data and information and have full authority to deploy sentinels to gather more data, either directly or through mass surveillance.
01:57:59.840 --> 01:58:00.640
God damn.
01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:06.159
This lot sound quality in a I hate that this has to exist sort of way.
01:58:08.319 --> 01:58:09.920
There's no applying to firewall.
01:58:10.079 --> 01:58:17.840
Recruitment is highly selective and may come from nowhere, and those who recruit others are responsible for their recruits and will bear the consequences for their actions.
01:58:18.079 --> 01:58:22.399
If an invitation to join firewall is accepted, there is no turning back.
01:58:22.640 --> 01:58:39.600
Deep background searches are followed by interrogations and psychosurgery to test extreme parameters in a stress test format, and those who do not pass such tests are killed in a manner that results in their backup being sent back to a time before they learned of the organization.
01:58:40.560 --> 01:58:41.199
Damn.
01:58:42.479 --> 01:58:43.680
They are hardcore.
01:58:44.319 --> 01:58:51.439
Speaking speaking of which, please close your eyes and open them again in 3, 2, 1.
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Good morning.
01:58:53.199 --> 01:58:54.399
It's wonderful to see you.
01:58:54.800 --> 01:59:00.399
I know that waking up on a new sleeve can be difficult, so I will be your helpful guide during this welcome back event we've scheduled.
01:59:00.640 --> 01:59:06.960
Unfortunately, it seems that the restore point of this backup is quite a bit older than expected, which means that there are some gaps in your memory.
01:59:07.199 --> 01:59:10.800
Here's a quick fun lesson for you regarding an interesting scientific term.
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An eclipse phase is the period between when a cell is infected by a virus and when the virus appears within the cell and transforms it.
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During this point, the cell does not appear to have an infection, but it does.
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It's a brief moment where you can see the past, but then the harshness of reality and the memory of what led to that point overwhelms it.
01:59:29.279 --> 01:59:30.560
Scary, right?
01:59:31.520 --> 01:59:33.439
Scary indeed.
01:59:35.119 --> 01:59:36.079
Jesus.
01:59:37.760 --> 01:59:41.439
So do you want to do you want to live in the in the uh universe of eclipse phase then?
01:59:41.520 --> 01:59:44.640
Or is that no on your on your end?
01:59:45.039 --> 01:59:48.960
That's probably a no on my end.
01:59:49.279 --> 01:59:54.960
I I I think there are worse universes to live in that we have talked about.
01:59:55.600 --> 01:59:58.079
Uh but I'm still looking great.
01:59:58.479 --> 01:59:59.920
No, no.
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But but hear me out.
02:00:03.359 --> 02:00:16.880
I could uh I I could I could morph into a giant sentient crab that had AI Tally Zora with thick thighs in a BDSM suit doing my taxes in my brain.
02:00:17.039 --> 02:00:18.880
So it's not all bad.
02:00:20.079 --> 02:00:21.760
It's not all bad.
02:00:22.079 --> 02:00:24.319
Like there are pros and cons, dude.
02:00:24.399 --> 02:00:25.359
Pros and cons.
02:00:25.840 --> 02:00:29.439
A phrase like that maybe eternal slavery's worth it or something.
02:00:29.760 --> 02:00:30.000
Yeah.
02:00:32.000 --> 02:00:35.840
I mean, you know, it gotta take a bit of the sweet.
02:00:35.920 --> 02:00:52.800
Uh you know, it's I'm clinging on to that one that one area where it seemed like people might be able to just be who they want to be that actually didn't sound absolutely atrocious because everything else is just absolutely horrific.
02:00:53.119 --> 02:00:57.439
And even then, I think I let's be honest, we definitely talked that up.
02:00:57.520 --> 02:00:58.479
It's not that nice.
02:00:58.640 --> 02:00:59.600
No, definitely not.
02:01:00.000 --> 02:01:01.439
No, it's definitely not that nice.
02:01:01.840 --> 02:01:10.079
No, no, it was just so notably not as horrible as everywhere else that it was like this this is a ray of hope.
02:01:11.119 --> 02:01:17.920
Uh also, Shai said, beginner version, corporations did it for money, easy version, evil AIs did it for power.
02:01:18.079 --> 02:01:22.319
Normal version, evil AI did it for power, but good AI stopped them to save humanity.
02:01:22.560 --> 02:01:26.319
Hard version, ancient aliens did it for God knows what the fuck, and they will be back.
02:01:26.399 --> 02:01:28.560
Oh god, oh fuck, oh god, oh fuck.
02:01:30.479 --> 02:01:40.159
Always look at the bright side of hypercapitalism where 95% of humanity is dead and five percent is mostly robots of or brain uploads and clones.
02:01:41.119 --> 02:01:46.000
Yeah, always yeah, that's a that's a life of Brian ending if I've ever heard one.
02:01:46.079 --> 02:01:46.399
Sure.
02:01:46.479 --> 02:01:47.279
Oh, yeah.
02:01:49.439 --> 02:01:53.039
Might as well end on a high note.
02:01:54.640 --> 02:01:57.039
I thought you were gonna say on a high crucifix.
02:01:57.119 --> 02:01:58.239
I was like, damn, brother.
02:01:58.560 --> 02:02:00.479
That's that's that's hard.
02:02:00.720 --> 02:02:01.920
That's hard, dude.
02:02:02.079 --> 02:02:10.000
Like, there's my AI waifu muse shy.
02:02:10.159 --> 02:02:10.560
Well done.
02:02:10.640 --> 02:02:11.760
You found her.
02:02:12.720 --> 02:02:15.359
Gotta work on the BDSM suit, though, but we'll get there.
02:02:15.439 --> 02:02:15.840
We'll get there.
02:02:15.920 --> 02:02:16.319
We'll get there.
02:02:16.479 --> 02:02:18.000
It's a work in progress, right?
02:02:20.319 --> 02:02:20.880
Excuse me.
02:02:20.960 --> 02:02:25.920
I need to go and inspect my new crab body and make sure it fit my specifications.
02:02:26.960 --> 02:02:30.399
I need to go on Amazon and get some pincer protectors.
02:02:31.600 --> 02:02:33.760
Size XXXXXL.
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Anyway.
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Yeah, Amazon already knows.
02:02:43.359 --> 02:02:44.560
Amazon has been listening.
02:02:44.960 --> 02:02:51.840
If I I bet you if I open Amazon right now, it'll be like, dude, where did you want, did you want some fresh crab legs?
02:02:52.079 --> 02:02:54.640
Subscribe and save four dollars.
02:02:57.760 --> 02:03:00.399
Amazon crab legs live it every day.
02:03:00.720 --> 02:03:01.359
Yeah.
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Weekly, weekly.
02:03:03.600 --> 02:03:04.479
Crazy.
02:03:05.760 --> 02:03:06.800
Oh man.
02:03:07.680 --> 02:03:10.399
I I just out of curious, I did have to open Amazon.
02:03:10.479 --> 02:03:10.960
Don't worry.
02:03:11.119 --> 02:03:12.079
They they weren't listening.
02:03:12.159 --> 02:03:15.279
There's no there's no helmets, there's no crabs.
02:03:15.439 --> 02:03:20.560
It's it's just it's it's it's just my normal um, you know, stuff.
02:03:20.960 --> 02:03:24.720
Your normal recommendations, which is a pit of depravity and filth.
02:03:25.600 --> 02:03:39.840
No, I'm I'm I'm I'm so sorry to disappoint you, but uh uh honestly the keep shopping for is uh beard butter, cat food, cologne, um air popped popcorn, and uh mini biscotti cookies.
02:03:40.000 --> 02:03:40.960
Sorry, guys.
02:03:41.199 --> 02:03:48.000
And if you want to fund that shopping list, then once again you can just go to patreon.com slash acceptalot.
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My cats would appreciate it.
02:03:51.920 --> 02:03:53.359
Cat food ain't cheap.
02:03:53.600 --> 02:03:55.119
Do it do it for them.
02:03:55.279 --> 02:03:56.319
Do it for the cats.
02:03:56.479 --> 02:03:57.680
Yeah, do it for us.
02:03:58.159 --> 02:03:59.600
Yeah, yeah.
02:03:59.840 --> 02:04:05.039
If you if you hey, listen, it doesn't take much to look on my socials and find pictures of my cat.
02:04:05.199 --> 02:04:08.479
Uh her name is Bug, and I have a one-eyed cat named Pi.
02:04:08.560 --> 02:04:09.279
They're adorable.
02:04:09.439 --> 02:04:10.640
They deserve the food.
02:04:10.960 --> 02:04:11.760
Do it.
02:04:14.560 --> 02:04:20.159
Okay, well, apparently Shai's is a dildos and doom jazz on vinyl, so that's clearly a bug.
02:04:20.399 --> 02:04:28.800
I hate the fact that mine is mostly telling me what is currently on offer in terms of protein, powder, and creatine.
02:04:28.960 --> 02:04:33.039
So that's someone's getting the gains on, eh?
02:04:33.439 --> 02:04:46.079
Well, it just feels weird because you know, before it would be random, random terrain and scenery supplies, PVA glue, and anything a child needs to attend school.
02:04:46.239 --> 02:04:49.439
So it feels like a dramatic shift that I'm not prepared for.
02:04:49.760 --> 02:04:50.720
Also, am I crazy?
02:04:50.800 --> 02:04:53.680
Like with Shys, I was expecting power tools.
02:04:54.000 --> 02:04:54.960
I'm not really sure why.
02:04:55.439 --> 02:05:03.920
I was I was expecting like drill bits, saws, welder mask, um, you know, stuff like that.
02:05:04.000 --> 02:05:06.399
I I was I was expecting not yet.
02:05:06.640 --> 02:05:07.760
Oh shit.
02:05:09.760 --> 02:05:19.279
Hey, period, let's out for this video before she needs to buy those things that she's totally not gonna use on a human strapped to a table.
02:05:19.680 --> 02:05:23.520
There's only one thing that we can do in this situation, and that's run.