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@literallyfenic @unascribed "There is nothing new under the sun" - written sometime between 400 and 100 B.C.E.

We'll never be able to upload ourselves into machines. It's the teleporter problem phrased differently: If you create an exact copy of the brain, then there are two of you, just as surely as twins are different people the moment they separate.

There *might* be a fix. But it's going to be a difficult one for society to accept because we see life and death as binary states. Start with augments. Let the brain offload something onto computers that computers are good at - say, math. Then offload more. Then more. It's like planting our brains into the machine as seeds which grow into our posthuman selves.

The Minecon Earth logo looks like some really good MagicaVoxel work. Which is great... I love MagicaVoxel, but... this continues to contribute to my increasing feeling of disconnect between the marketing and the game.

@unascribed @CalmBit esp with an atmosphere-capable ship, it's easy to get stuck in the gravity well when you're not thinking about joules per kilogram

@CalmBit @unascribed But how would a superdense neutron storage core affect ship thrust and maneuverability?

@unascribed @CalmBit Facebook, twitter - communities where people who were vaguely polite to each other at some point amass into a solid amyloid plaque of mutual disdain

mastodon - tiny knots of people that actually like each other

@literallyfenic @unascribed As always, https://xkcd.com/703/ is relevant :D

@literallyfenic @unascribed The first rule of tautology club is that there are one or more rules of tautology club

@CalmBit It *seems* like there are cool things happening in French too, "eil" is a neat idea and flows nicely even though the language has romance-style gendering. Hopefully some of my fellow witches can chime in, because I'd love to know more about it!

@CalmBit And you've got a solid argument there with "they" being a more respectful form. But there are *killer* arguments that better address the fact that "he" is *not* gender-neutral- https://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/singular-they-and-the-many-reasons-why-its-correct/

"Is it your brother or sister who can hold his breath for four minutes?" is just really, really wrong. You can *feel* how gendered that word is there. So regardless of propriety we need language to step up to the plate.

@CalmBit Yeah, in Early Middle English - we did the same thing as french/spanish/italian where "thou" was like "tu" and seen as familiar, while "you" was respectful, and then we slowly dropped the familiar forms as they started feeling low-class. I love etymology so freaking much

Still compiling the master post on pronoun etymology but the short-short version is, "they" isn't from old english or saxon like the rest of our pronouns. It's from Old Norse, which means it's queer as heck and it doesn't follow your stupid rules.

Tired: Shitposting in future font on cybre.space
Wired: Demanding punctuation, because nobody can truly say they achieved maximum shitposting if they can't even WHOMST'VE

Praxis is whatever you need to do what you is.

Could be tools, knowledge, skills, training, structure, or even the foresight or imagination to consider the result. I liken it to "me" (𒈨), which is an obscure reference to assyrian/babylonian gods granting competence/authority over a subject or practice. It's interesting to think of a thing like this as a physical thing, seperable from the written instructions to do it. It's interesting to think of "rejoicing of the heart" as a praxis, on an equal footing with "metalwork" and equally difficult and valuable.

Most clients won't have cuneiform characters handy, so here's an image: https://witches.town/media/4aJlCPNnguZy1_3GSjk