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Alice Grove MCDLT - THE END...?
brasca:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 13 Jul 2017, 10:26 ---For example, I wouldn't be surprised if Ardent's powers don't work on weapons.
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It worked on the Valkerie - whether weapon systems remained intact (or were improved) never got a chance for exposition, though.
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We don't know what happened to the weapons, but it didn't seem to have any so maybe Ardent can upgrade and repurpose it for peaceful uses.
dexeron:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 13 Jul 2017, 10:29 ---Technology and knowledge that is given before it is earned is always dangerous. Always.
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As a wise man once said: "He learned almost too late that man is a feeling creature... and because of it, the greatest in the universe. He learned too late for himself that men have to find their own way, to make their own mistakes. There can't be any gift of perfection from outside ourselves. And when men seek such perfection... they find only death... fire... loss... disillusionment... the end of everything that's gone forward. Men have always sought an end to the toil and misery, but it can't be given, it has to be achieved. There is hope, but it has to come from inside, from Man himself."
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=npFcKXfcx2o
Is it cold in here?:
Childhood's End, or The City and the Stars. Diaspar was set to equilibrium, not stasis, and was post-scarcity (Krell-level technology). A very clever, deeply hidden hack was installed to open it up to the universe later.
If there's someone out there who cares about humanity, will they arrange a war crimes trial for Alice?
TheEvilDog:
Although how can an outside influence deem itself right to judge Alice for war crimes?
We've spent the last century debating what classes as a war crime and that was just among ourselves. How many thousands of years ahead of us can the world of Alice Grove be? A world where advanced AI and transhumanism were part and parcel of the norm, I might add. How far had weapons gone and how primitive must our technology be in comparison? We fear the spread of anthrax and botulism and the deployment of nuclear weapons, but can that can compared to nanoclouds which generate lasers to blast at the moon? Or the demonic super soldiers themselves?
We judge each other for the weapons that were created to maim and destroy in blood wars based on old grudges, but can that compare to the cold pragmatism that comes in the face of near extinction? We can say war crimes from the safety of our homes, but what about the ones on the line, where every decision no doubt meant life and death? Should we judge them for doing what we made them do?
Alice and the others are merely weapons. The ones we should be judging have been dead for millennia.
Case:
Deus Ex Ardent?
Deus Ex, Ardent?
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