If you were living in space, would you prefer being in orbit around a larger body, in a stable transit orbit between two locations, or in a long-term self-directing transitory vessel?
I was thinking about different 'places' in space, and it seems like there's only so many ways you could be out there.
You could be in orbit around something, like how the space station orbits the Earth.
You could be in a stable transitory orbit, like moving around the Sun in an orbit that takes you between Earth and Mars on a repeating circuit, or...
you could be in a long-term self-directing transitor vessel, like a spaceship moving from one planet to another, only to move on again, not intending to just be in orbit, but to go somewhere different all the time.
This'd be mostly just your 'home' tho, you don't have to stay there. ^.^
@relee if i can't just *be* a ship, i'd prefer to live in a deep-space vessel, dropping into hypersleep for decades at a time, emerging for a few months to make course corrections, sift through data and record scientific findings, go back into hypersleep, rinse, repeat. proooobably slipping in and out of Space Madness at various points.
so, y'know, going. Boldly.
@zx3 @001zlnv Oh cool, so you would want to go multiplicity! Do you have any thoughts on the style and form of that?
There's a lot of options. Some folks want multiple independnt instances of themself, others want more than one body as part of their 'self' and you could probably have other people in your mind who are also you and part of you. Plural folks are all over now, but if you're making it happen intentionally with tech, they wouldn't have to be different to start with.
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@relee "multiple instances of myself" sounds like a nightmare when you figure in the doubt and self-loathing in my root code. that would end in ugliness.
i want one mind, many bodies, working in tandem; though naturally these bodies would develop different personalities and voices that would all be part of me. i would be the same person speaking out of my space-traveling frame as i would my shiny chrome socialite, but these would represent different parts of my personality and expression. i can imagine a situation where i could recognize that one of those "voices" has grown so distinct on their own that it might be better to grant them independent consciousness and agency so that part of me can grow separately from the groupmind and go experience the universe.
hey, maybe that's the way i finally get around to having kids.
@zx3 Oh, do you have interest in hacking your own mind? Some folks figure if you edit your mind, you've killed yourself and made a new person, and others see it differently, so I'm curious about you. Would you change anything?
@zx3 I have no interest in having human kids of my own, though I do daydream about raising and teaching kids now and then? I'm scared of kids, tho.
I want to contribute to the creation of independant non-human artificial inteligence. Artificial people, basically. I don't know why. It seems very cruel of me. ^.^;;
I keep thinking, if I knew what life was, I wouldn't have chosen to be born, but things don't work that way. But, why would anyone want to inflict life on someone?
Still...