[Organisation][RFC] Singularity Club

[Ace Dreamer]

Singularity
is capitalised. You might know, on a meta level, that the writings on
Fenspace have a techno-utopian bias. The characters in the Fenspace
stories don't. The "Fenspace Infinities" story Archimedes Lever, about a
Nanoclasm, that's a 'Singularity'.

I know what "Singularity" means... and just between you and me, I think
Dee had multiple of them. Go off through the roof with the tech
development, then hit a new slow-development area... until you get to
the next accelerator.

"Archimedes Lever" is one of the "funny but not cannon" Fenspace-Infinity stories...

You can have as many private 'singularities' as you like, it's having a 'Singularity' that wrecks the playground for everyone else that I think causes concern.  Yes, I was pretty sure you knew what a Singularity was.  I was just making sure there was a clear distinction for anyone reading this. [grin]
I'd realised the non-canonicity, but I thought the story relevant.

It's been made clear, in a number of cases, that AIs have
plenty of time to think. If you know that talking about something is
very likely to help end the fun that is Fenspace, you are likely to be
cautious. Singularity Club might be a bit short on any plans, except
"try and make the Singularity later, not sooner", and similar for other
extinction level possibilities. Of course there will be stuff posted,
but, is it anything but conspiracy theory?

Most AIs in Fenspace are just like digital people...

But think a lot faster...
If you're communicating with non-AIs that almost certainly gives you a chance to think about what you are saying before it comes out your communicator.  If you're smart and don't want to freak the humans, it's likely you'll make a lot of what you say sound spontaneous, though.
Of course, some AIs on low-grade hardware (waved old smartphones?) might not be actually capable of thinking any faster than humans...

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the AIs have had to swat a
rogue AI or two, trying to hack the interweave, or going for a
Singularity take-off. But, this sort of story likely wouldn't have much
human involvement, and, Fenspace is (mostly) about stories about
humans.

I think Fenspace had more trouble with human(oid) Mads than with AIs... seems AIs are the more sane people in Fenspace.

Maybe faster thinking keeps you saner?  Or, if you're unsane, means you go totally off the rails really quick?
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind