How do they know what’s going on here? FTL spying?
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FTL keeping tabs on those working under you
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Will the plug be pulled once the “biosphere restoration” project gets finished anyways?
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We aren’t “restoring” anything, we’re making something brand new
As I said in the original post, I don’t have a planned ending, and within lore, this project is interesting and valuable because it pushes the limits of what can be considered “habitable”, but it will likely requiere extended monitoring even after the ecosystem we’re creating “stabilizes”
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That’s probably still quite the count of rounds away from now…
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dozens, at least, but it will be worth it (or at least that’s what we tell our supervisors, don’t snitch)
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What happens if our species we created turn more advanced than humans in tech at some point?
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they won’t be able to, they’d have to outsurpass 12.000 million years of advantage, and modern humanity is far from stagnant
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I presume the AIs on the ship can learn a bit about what humanity has achieved from the ship itself…
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that’s right, and humanity can learn from us as well, communication is far from sporadic reports, I just can’t write millenia worth of chat logs
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I presume ascension gates are not a thing in this universe considering how long it’s been since humanity emerged?
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no, it’s basically our irl universe’s happy future timeline, with plenty of alien life and strong institutions looking after people
there’s still the quest to prepare for, or avoid, the heat death of the universe, but that’s much, much, much farther into the future, and it doesn’t concern us for the purposes of this FG… probably
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M: molecular fuse-diodes(with this specific molecular structure) to temporarily break circuits when current flows the wrong way
OA: modify the engineering labratory to be capable of making vapor-compression heat pumps, new refrigerants, and microfluidics
sooooo
if we give our cells the power to compute complex information, what intelligence levels will they be able to reach?
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I… are you trying to make biological computers?
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Of course. Willow has ways to create quite the “smart” critters via means rather unknown to most…
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yep!
but also, that is what brains are is it not?
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Both OAs: More OAs (I’ll do this until I have 10 OAs in total, including ones in progress of being added)
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yes, however, a brain is a multicellular structure, it can be more or less dense, but the number of cells is tied to the total “computing power”, regardless of their configuration, and that number certainly doesn’t drop to 1
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Um, Willow, maybe you should consider NOT developing crazy things like that when even the GM didn’t know of them beforehand, heck, didn’t even consider they could be possible for nonlawk stuff?
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well one of the two ways i plan on going about it is making the cells have factories (collections of enzymes) that churn out beads of silica and computer bits that are similar in function and I/O to neurons, except that they require a power input wire, and having them produce a lot of them to make a mass that is effectively a neural network, which would be called a neural complex, and be a literal cell brain, but likely have an upper processing power limit(for an average sized cell) of 1 large jellyfish
either would kinda necessitate smth faster for regulating and coordinating intercellular behaviour at larger scales than an ant tho, but that’s smth i also have ideas for, and wouldn’t require much more to start on
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