# Trope-a-Day: Scale of Scientific Sins **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [November 16, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/trope-a-day-scale-of-scientific-sins/3232 "2024-11-16T16:50:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
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**_[Scale of Scientific Sins](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ScaleOfScientificSins?ref=eldraeverse.com):_** All of them.  Absolutely all of them. _Automation:_ Of just about everything, as exemplified by the sheer number of cornucopia machines, AI managers and scurrying _[utility spiders](http://eldraeverse.com/2015/08/19/trope-a-day-ridiculously-human-robots/)_.  Unlike most of the people who got this one very badly wrong, however, in this Galaxy, almost no-one is stupid or malicious enough to make the automation sophont or volitional. _[Potential Applications](http://eldraeverse.com/2012/04/02/trope-a-day-potential-applications/):_ Feh.  Anything worth doing is worth doing [FOR SCIENCE!](http://eldraeverse.com/2012/04/03/trope-a-day-for-science/)  (Also, with respect to 2.2 in particular, _[Mundane Utility](http://eldraeverse.com/2012/03/22/trope-a-day-mundane-utility/)_ is often at least half of that point.) _GE and Transhumanism: [Transsophontism Is Compulsory](http://eldraeverse.com/2012/06/11/trope-a-day-no-transhumanism-allowed/)_; those who fall behind, get left behind.  Or so say all we – carefully engineered – impossibly beautiful genius-level nanocyborg demigods.  (Needless to say, [_Cybernetics_ **Do Not** _Eat Your Soul_](http://eldraeverse.com/2012/09/05/trope-a-day-cybernetics-eat-your-soul/).) _Immortality:_ Possibly cheating, since the basic immortality of the eldrae and galari is innate – well, _now_ it is, anyway – rather than engineered.  Probably played straight with their idealistic crusade to bring the benefits of Avoiding That Stupid Habit You Have Of Dying to the rest of the Galaxy, though. _Creating Life:_ Digital sapience, neogens (creatures genetically engineered from scratch, rather than modified from an original), and heck, even arguably uplifts, too. _Cheating Death:_ The routine use of vector stacks and reinstantiation is exactly this.  Previously, _cryostasis_, and the entire vaults full of generations of frozen people awaiting reinstantiation such that death would bloody well be not proud.  And no, people don’t _Come Back Wrong;_ they come back pretty much exactly the same way they left. _Usurping God:_ This one is a little debatable, inasmuch as the Eldraeverse does not include supernatural deities in the first place.  On the other hand, if _building your own complete pantheon of machine gods_ out of a seed AI and your own collective consciousness doesn’t count towards this, what the heck does? * * * This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://eldraeverse.com/2015/09/07/trope-a-day-scale-of-scientific-sins](https://eldraeverse.com/2015/09/07/trope-a-day-scale-of-scientific-sins) ---
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**Comments migrated from WordPress:** > [@Foo Quuxman \ on 2015-09-07 21:12:32 wrote](#): > > Wait… this Trope-a-Day didn’t already exist? > > > [@Alistair Young \ on 2015-09-07 21:48:15 wrote](#): > > > > Well, it’s not marked as having been previously posted, or at least it wasn’t… ---
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