Picard Season 1: mortality, great filters, and synthetic life w/ Jolene Creighton

Published: May 12, 2020, 4:44 a.m.

Nostalgia \n\n

Like all the things with Star Trek in them - feeling nostalgia for good Trek.

\n\n Prophecy/Not Prophecy \n\n

Conquering the Three Body Problem and moving on to the\u2026 eight body problem? Breaking your brain. Tidal forces and planetary ejection. Game theory: secret society, or open discussion?

\n\n Great filters \n\n

The great synthetic filter from beyond space and time.

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If that\u2019s the words, then that\u2019s the words

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Christopher Peterson

\n\n Synthetic life \n\n

Classifying the artificial intelligence of Trek\u2019s synthetic life. Issues with anthropocentric terminology. Backing up synthetic \u201cminds.\u201d Finding out you\u2019re a robot and also, somehow, simulation hypothesis.

\n\n Mortality \n\n

\u201cTo die is to be human\u201d and other stupid nonsense. YOLO. \u201cI\u2019m gonna live forever ha-haaa. Wasting deaths in Star Trek.

\n\n Borg \n\n

Small-scale good-guy Borg. Dunbar limits and smaller collectives.

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