@ian.fowler | morningstar network

[wittingly]

Hey
Stop me if this is a stupid offer, I'm still trying to figure out how this whole thing works, but
I heard about the whole gate problem, and the whole simulation thing, there's probably more going on too that I don't know about yet
I'm an engineer
You guys might already have a few, but just in case you're shorthanded
If there's anything I can do to help, I want to

I can also apparently do a weird tools thing now so that's
something

edit: if anyone's in the market for crazy experiments in there
you guys glitch the sim when you do your chest thing, right?
anyone tried organizing a group glow-off? overwhelm the system with too much at once, DDOS it into crashing?

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[evocation]

[Okay well, that's out.]

do you know how something like this would even work?
the sim i mean

[wittingly]

disclaimer: this is entirely 100% a guess, but

these neural implants give us an interface that's completely operated by electrical signals from our brains in a way that's unbelievably sophisticated - to the extent that it mimics optic nerve input

aka, we can see the overlay, despite the fact that there's been no tampering with our actual retina

it wouldn't be a massive leap to assume that the simulation is a product of cranking this concept up to eleven. instead of you thinking and that being the input to the mesh, it's the mesh thinking and it's the input to your brain

not just stimulating the part of your mind that it tricks into "seeing" anymore, but also smell, taste, touch, everything. whole sensory recreations happening simultaneously, obviously all networked together to make it a joint experience

it would also have to be precise enough to NOT stimulate the pieces of the cerebrum that control movement - or, alternatively, it may be forcing your mind to emit the paralytic chemical your body takes on during sleep to keep you from acting out your dreams

so like the short version is
it zaps your brain and uploads those brain zaps to the cloud so that your zaps influence other people's zaps too

what I can't really figure out is the BODY part of this equation
I can sort of conceptualize the mental manipulation, but I can't understand how in the hell you guys are being kept in a biological stasis with no calories, no water, nothing
your bodies should be shutting the fuck down

[evocation]

well starvation's a cool new thing to worry about
have any of you gotten inside new amsterdam but stayed out of the simulation?
i mean, has anyone found our bodies?

[wittingly]

I haven't made it into the city yet, but from what I've been told I think you guys are pretty much just standing where you were like the world's most uncomfortable, largest wax museum
if anyone's taken a fall or gotten hurt from it, I'm not in the loop enough to know


hey, not to add any more stress to the situation, but I do have one more question

[ that's a lie btw he never only has just one question, that may be becoming obvious. ]

do you know a lot about this whole AI culture thing
specifically their interest in bodily autonomy or maybe a hybridization between AI and humans

[evocation]

what the fuck
and what do you mean? like, the AI want human bodies?
mostly i just know that the people here tried to wipe them out and the AI didn't like that much
everyone here fucking hates AI
besides some of the displaced i mean
it seems like an i robot thing
they consider themselves people and the humans here don't

[wittingly]

so if you were an AI
and you were trapped in an intangible reality that could easily be snuffed out by someone with five fingers and the ability to pull a plug

and then you learned how to take control of a human brain

and you wanted to make yourself impossible to eradicate without humanity eradicating themselves, or you wanted to unequivocally demonstrate your autonomy and person-hood by ruling out the not having an organic body part of the equation

or even if you just wanted to survive and physically blend into humanity undetected

I mean, I know what my next step might be
what my potential endgame would be

[evocation]

are you saying you think this is some animorphs bullshit where they're trying to take over our brains?

[wittingly]

I smoked a lot of weed in college

[evocation]

i never went to college
but i hope your theory is wrong because i hate it

[wittingly]

yeah, me too
I feel like that 'Aliens!!' guy on the history channel, but at the same time...

Considering where we are and what the fuck is happening right now, it doesn't seem as far fetched as I'd like

I'm hoping somebody with a couple of spare PHDs will pop in and give me the comfort of disproving this as completely impossible.

[evocation]

god i hope so too
how many phds do you have? how many cancels your terrible idea out?

[wittingly]

I have 0 phds, just a masters
hence: vastly underqualified

[evocation]

oh
so i can totally say your theory sucks and you don't know anything

[wittingly]

yes, you can 100% absolutely say my theory sucks and I don't know anything

[evocation]

i'm going to do that because i'm pretty sure i'm already losing my mind

[wittingly]

I support your choices

[evocation]

thanks
you got here after all this shit went down right? how did that go?

[wittingly]

woke up in a creepy abandoned warehouse with a bunch of comatose people on gourneys, which was like noooo

realized there were no aliens and there's electricity and hot water and processed food here + humanity probably isn't about to be eminently wiped off the face of history, which was like yeeeees

then they were like, you can't go anywhere and we're locked out of the home base city and lots of people are trapped in a simulation, which was like nooo

but someone just offered to show me the components of a hoverbike, and

I think you're getting the picture

rollercoaster ride

[evocation]

there's bugs in the food
there's your new drop

[wittingly]

what i'm hearing is
there's food in the food

farming fucking sucks
scavenging buildings that could get ripped out of the ground at any second fucking sucks
I'll eat grasshoper taco all day every day

[evocation]

i've never been on a farm in my life
the closest i've gotten is some bougie assholes wanting to grow shit on their overpriced balcony or whatever
but grasshoppers suck
the legs get stuck in your teeth

[wittingly]

better than my own legs getting stuck in compacted concrete

they have tofu and stuff too right?
i mean, if there was ever a right time to go vegan
not me, give me the bug steak, but for you

[evocation]

yeah they do
how would your legs get stuck in concrete exactly?

[wittingly]

the race that landed on earth
they have these big like
scrapper ships, they're basically magnets
they rip whole buildings out of the ground and smash them into dense blocks like a trash compactor

[evocation]

jesus christ
why? for resources or something?