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@Specialist290 <carpentereli@outlook.com> on 2017-05-14 08:22:23 wrote

Yet another policy I could get behind.

Really, despite a few disagreements with their methods and the logic behind them, overall I probably wouldn’t mind living in the Empire, assuming I could get past the whole “curled up in a corner afraid to do absolutely anything for fear of being killed for accidentally trespassing / killed for being accidentally impolite / rendered brain-dead by my own hands for forgetting a step in the manual” stage.

@Mark Atwood <me@mark.atwood.name> on 2017-05-14 14:22:11 wrote

You can hire an AI slapdrone nanny and give it power of attorney and oversight and override control of your network connections, exoself, and body, exactly for the purpose of avoiding such problems.

@Alistair Young <athanasius.skytower@arkane-systems.net> on 2017-05-15 00:20:38 wrote

For those who are really worried about such things (mostly unnecessary, in my opinion, for those who put forth even modest effort to learn the local customs), well… what Mark Atwood said.

(The local term is “Declaration of Situational Mental Incompetence and Appointment of Guardian-Overseer”. Not the most tactful term ever, but then, that’s not exactly the point.)

@nweismuller <nweismuller@hotmail.com> on 2017-06-02 15:02:03 wrote

This particular phrasing is the strongest evidence I’ve yet seen of the influence of John C, Wright, but the Golden Age series is excellent inspiration.

@Alistair Young <athanasius.skytower@arkane-systems.net> on 2017-06-02 17:31:45 wrote

That they are, and it can indeed by numbered among my inspirations.

(Shame the brain eater got him. I could have lived with some more books like that quite easily…)

@nweismuller <nweismuller@hotmail.com> on 2017-06-02 20:36:35 wrote

Yeah, he’s… gone pretty seriously overboard on the Catholicism. I’ve still been enjoying the Count to a Trillion series, but… he’s gotten sloppier in many ways- circular reasoning about ‘meaning’ and the like.

@Jade Nekotenshi <nekotenshi0@gmail.com> on 2017-05-15 13:38:18 wrote

I’d figure your typical Imperial would have the sense to differentiate between “oops, I inadvertently strayed onto your property, mea maxima culpa”, and “I really couldn’t give two fucks more or less about you or your property, you exist as an instrument to my ends and everything else is incidental”.

Granted, that may be a bit hard to gauge, especially by our standards here where psychopaths are only too happy to hide behind protests of noobishness, but even so…