In a message dated 11/14/2004 11:25:49 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Agh! SHades of Dr. Pak's Preschool.
On another track, What about DitZilla?
Kiln technology would be a LARPer's
paradise.
-- Matt
A ditto King Kong, who is a very peaceable fellow, and hands
David Brin wrote:
> Now you guys are creeping me out.
> The ditto tits = Tittos wasn't
> too bad. But fetuses imprinting
> "fettos" to walk around and experience
> the outer world before birth??
> Agh! SHades of Dr. Pak's Preschool.
On another track, What about DitZilla?
Kiln technology w
In a message dated 11/11/2004 5:10:16 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for trying to cheer me up, guys.
Well, I'd like to say that I'm doing the Alfred Bester I can do.
No, wait a m i n u t e,
this
wold be Bester
--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now let's crossover Uplift with KP: imprint _chimps_
> into> ebody golems, so that they will have a taste
of
> intelligence> and can chose how to self-uplift.
like the monkey with the IQ hat in Futurama...
Thanks for trying to cheer me up, guys
David Brin wrote:
>
> Now you guys are creeping me out.
>
Is this a challenge?
> The ditto tits =
> Tittos wasn't too bad. But fetuses imprinting
> "fettos" to walk around and experience the outer world
> before birth??
>
It could be worse: imprint dittoes _from_ a flesh fetus,
and then in
In a message dated 11/11/2004 2:41:13 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
. But fetuses imprinting
"fettos" to walk around and experience the outer world
before birth??
Agh! SHades of Dr. Pak's Preschool.
And people to steal the fetuses to sell on the black market.
Now you guys are creeping me out. The ditto tits =
Tittos wasn't too bad. But fetuses imprinting
"fettos" to walk around and experience the outer world
before birth??
Agh! SHades of Dr. Pak's Preschool.
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> From: David Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Brin: Kiln people aside
Dang it's a good thing I like snippy-bright people.
> Most would have flushed your note, ignoring the
> underlying friendliness.
>
> In fact, KP kind of mocks "transcendance", as you
In the discussion of pregnant women
making dittoes, what would happen
at the end of the day when they
download the ditto's memories? Would
the child (assuming it has enough of
a brain at the time) get any of mom's
memories? We already know that trying
to download one complete imprint onto
anothe
On Nov 10, 2004, at 7:22 PM, David Brin wrote:
--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote some
cool kiln speculations.
Thanks.
I already did deal with
religious conservative opposition to kilning and with
sexual variations.
Yeah, I noticed that in KP; I think that's another difference in
approa
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Robert Seeberger wrote:
> Julia Thompson wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, David Brin wrote:
> >
> > lactation from a ditto you probably *don't* need, either, but having
> > one around to help burp the baby afterwards would be very nice,
> > especially if you're lactating for
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:43:05 -0600, Robert Seeberger
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bryon Daly wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:22:11 -0800 (PST), David Brin
> > experiences a la Arnold's promised Mars adventure in The Running
> Man.
> >
> Total Recall
Doh! What he said!
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Julia Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, David Brin wrote:
>
> lactation from a ditto you probably *don't* need, either, but having
> one around to help burp the baby afterwards would be very nice,
> especially if you're lactating for 2 babies
I predict a line:
"It's kinda nice not having real
Bryon Daly wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:22:11 -0800 (PST), David Brin
> experiences a la Arnold's promised Mars adventure in The Running
Man.
>
Total Recall
xponent
Governator Quibbles Maru
rob
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David Brin wrote:
> --- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote some
> cool kiln speculations. I already did deal with
> religious conservative opposition to kilning and with
> sexual variations.
>
> The alien idea though is one that I was intending to
> deal With. I mean, how could you tell?
At 11:20 AM 11/10/2004 -0800 David Brin wrote:
>Unfortunately, I seem chastened in my faith in my
>fellow citizens by recent events. NOT the overall
>election trends. After all, urban-educated America
>did vote as I perceived.
I'd ask why the vote of urban-educated America is better representa
--- Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Likely no sport or activity would be too
> extreme... "0.5% chance of
> survival down that slope?
KP shows this.
> - It could be much more easy for humans to survive
> and exploit
> resources in places that they could not easily do so
> now, by crea
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, David Brin wrote:
>
> --- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote some
> cool kiln speculations. I already did deal with
> religious conservative opposition to kilning and with
> sexual variations.
>
> The alien idea though is one that I was intending to
> deal With. I
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:22:11 -0800 (PST), David Brin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote some
> cool kiln speculations. I already did deal with
> religious conservative opposition to kilning and with
> sexual variations.
>
> The alien idea though is one t
--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote some
cool kiln speculations. I already did deal with
religious conservative opposition to kilning and with
sexual variations.
The alien idea though is one that I was intending to
deal With. I mean, how could you tell?
Pregnancy. Interesting.
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On Nov 10, 2004, at 12:20 PM, David Brin wrote:
--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To me what was probably most interesting about KP is
the story you told
with the scenario you conceived. (I mean the
contrast of what you
explored versus what I would have done given the
same starting poi
--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To me what was probably most interesting about KP is
> the story you told
> with the scenario you conceived. (I mean the
> contrast of what you
> explored versus what I would have done given the
> same starting point.)
> I would have gone down a
On Nov 9, 2004, at 3:12 PM, David Brin wrote:
Funny you ignore the singularity aspect of KP. SERIAL
immortality is really rather churlish, stealing from
our descendants. What busy people REALLY want and
need is PARALLEL immortality. The power to get more
done now.
Looking at transcendence in you
In a message dated 11/9/2004 10:44:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has everyone forgotten Earth?
I would think that one the most obvious.
xponent
Tranny Maru
rob
Transcendence Spotting?
Time to count the infantiles on the ceiling.
Vilyehm
John D. Giorgis wrote:
> At 05:07 PM 11/9/2004 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> In a message dated 11/9/2004 2:51:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>> And what is it with you and endings
>> involving some sort of Transcendance? That makes ~three now (not
>> that I'm co
In a message dated 11/9/2004 10:17:56 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Heaven's Reach and Creideiki. I know that's one of them.
You could easily argue that Heart of the Comet would make two.
JDG
I feel a need to insert an Orson Scott Cardiovascular joke here--but
c
At 05:07 PM 11/9/2004 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In a message dated 11/9/2004 2:51:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
>And what is it with you and endings
>involving some sort of Transcendance? That makes ~three now (not
>that I'm counting).
>
>Oh please. Count them.
Dang it's a good thing I like snippy-bright people.
Most would have flushed your note, ignoring the
underlying friendliness.
In fact, KP kind of mocks "transcendance", as you well
note. It acknowledges that it may happen, but (as in
my other books) I also say the "life will go on".
I just retur
In a message dated 11/9/2004 2:51:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And what is it with you and endings
involving some sort of Transcendance? That makes ~three now (not
that I'm counting).
Oh please. Count them.
Heaven's Reach and Creideiki. I know that's one of them.
So Dr. Brin, I was reading Kiln People your new novel.
Rather good, although towards the end seemed you'd tossed too
many balls in the air. And what is it with you and endings
involving some sort of Transcendance? That makes ~three now (not
that I'm counting).
But my question really is that early
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