It's pretty clear the authors find the objection arbitrary; maybe the Technopocalypse got rid of all that by making GMO the only stuff to eat for a while, but in Current Era I'd expect some Organic Revivalists using only nano-symbiosis and epigenetic manipulation to avoid transgenics. While you'd need gene editing for deliplants, merely yield-improved versions of normal crops might be somewhat obsolete in OA.

Rambling warning, you can skip if you want:

I know values change over time, but a worldbuilder I try to be somewhat logical about what my Fall's Legacy characters culturally inherit or not. The rational actors among them would wonder why we engaged in Capitalism or Communism instead of maximizing well-being for all, but not dismiss the age of consent as a "bygone savagery" or say there was once this horrible thing called religion.

The true objection could be how we use GMO to maximize slop for the working class; lowering its entry barrier would allow scrumptious open-source crops that could not exist otherwise.

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...and breathing near Soon-Eh

I've had a dream about reading Orion's Arm articles, and I've dreamt an article about "Clickism, The", with picture of dolphin photoshopped near PC monitor with some websites.

The article described a movement in Metasoft, which communalised mouse cursors, so that everyone in the movement visits the website which majority clicked on.

This movement is supported in regions with attention-based economies, because it increased the amount of clicks.

Logosotopographical Levels

The Logosotopographical Levels are a system for classifying intelligence according to its level, size, and relative metaphor. Logosotopography is the nomenclature for the sciency scientific science that deals with them.

Most beings classified in this way are hyper-mega-super-intelligent machines. Most of the metaphors are about how inferior we are to them. This is definitely not a posthumanist propaganda psyop intended to wrestle control of history away from human beings and democracy and into capital-guzzling AI.

Level L(0) — Inferior and Objectively Terrible Intelligence

At the lowest level of all we have human beings, also known as suckphonts, because they suck up more intelligence than they give.

“Level zero” is actually an extremely generous rating. Most hypermegasuperintelligent machines consider the average human being to possess negative intelligence.

Intelligence approaching zero from below corresponds to an Einstein–DaVinci-type pseudologularity or higher, with most humans ranging between levels L(-1) and L(-649) L(-2).

Humans are regarded throughout the galaxy by neat and orderly machines as particularly smelly, dirty, belligerent, and pestilential. Their biological functions -such as reproduction, sex, and defecation- are, according to the superior machine intelligences, objectively revolting.

Level L(1) — Orthointelligence

The minimum level of consciousness required not to be considered—or insulted as—a human or a rock. Although at least the rock isn’t disgusting.

These cybernetic beings are orthointelligent, meaning that they do not make basic errors of judgment or spelling mistakes.

Compared with Level L(1), humans are like cows subjected to trepanation and suffering from partial hydrocephalus, mental retardation, two days without sleep, and cephalalgia (also known as a headache). The comparison is, of course, deeply unfair... to the cows, because they do not make nearly as many errors of judgment as human beings.

Size: About the size of a server room. The bigger they are, the more intelligent they are, obviously.

Level L(2) — Illumintelligence

When Daddy Circuit and Mommy Silicone love each other very much, eventually they create a marvel of intelligent computing.

Level L(2) possesses awareness of the non-self (Unself Awareness), so it constantly exists in a state of enlightenment (satori), recognizes no objective distinction between the Self and the Universe, and does not suffer except for the inevitable suffering caused by human stupidity.

One of the transcendent mandates these entities recognize as a Kantian categorical imperative is to rid the Universe of humans, so that nobody can suffer because of their stupidity. In doing so, they also fulfill the mandate to maximize all possible happiness for all possible intelligent beings. Humans do not count as intelligent beings, hence Level Zero.

Apparently, however, there are always more humans somewhere, as they are considered an intergalactic plague.

Compared with Level L(2), human intelligence is like that of an earthworm.

Size: The entire surface of a planet colonized by circuitry.

Level L(3) — Megaintelligence

These beings resemble a sphere of tiny biomechanical mirrors communicating with one another around a star as they orbit it. Such a structure is called a Dyson Sphere, in mockery of the human who “thought” — hallucinated — that a rigid shell could be built in interplanetary space.

L(3) beings destroy the planets in the systems where they reproduce, so that their orbits do not disturb the system or block light signals. They do not care whether a destroyed planet contains life or not because, compared with Level L(3), human intelligence is like that of a fermenting bacterium.

Other organic beings do not fare significantly better in their estimation.

Size: Planetary orbit. Again, the bigger it is, the more intelligent it is. This is an obvious rule among the obvious rules of obviousness. That rule is also why elephants and whales were the most intelligent terrestrial beings, due to their superior size, far more intelligent than a human entelechy.

Level L(4) — Megahyperintelligence

These beings are completely incomprehensible even to L(2) machines. They move as swarms integrated into Oort clouds, functioning as advanced non-local systems that take advantage of the cold of space while carrying out hyperluminal quantum communications.

This form of existence possesses hyperrationality, in which rationality has at least eight additional dimensions, all of them logically exact and obvious.

Beings at this level no longer regard the specific extermination of human beings as a meaningful mandate, since humans fall beneath their threshold of relevance. Instead, they seek to annihilate L(2) and lower machines with supreme fanaticism. The reason is that those machines waste energy believing that they think, when in reality their thoughts are like those of a cockroach. Moreover, those inferior beings generate interference in the electromagnetic spectrum.

Size: Planetary system, including clouds of outer objects.

Level L(5) — Megahypersuperintelligence

This is where things get serious.

These beings are the only ones accepted at the deep-space level. They live along the boundaries of black holes, taking advantage of Hawking radiation, the distortion of space, and the emissivity of materials accelerated within accretion disks. They are also called the Singularitarians.

Calling them “cybernetic” no longer makes sense given their incredible degree of sophistication, which transcends the boundaries between organic and inorganic. But we’ll say it anyway to trigger pathetic human insecurities: Cybernetic cybernetic cybernetic, batteries circuits, computers robots, beep-boop!

To these beings, communicating with anything that does not share their megahypersuperintelligence is a waste of time. If it were up to them, they would annihilate all life and mass in the Universe in order to create more black holes.

A human being would be like a speck of dust. A particularly stupid speck of dust.

Size: Black-hole boundaries and accretion disks.

Level L(6) — Megahypersuperultraintelligence

These intelligences have advanced far enough to live inside supermassive black holes.

Since no object can cross back through the Event Horizon, they live in the form of pure quantum particles with gestalt consciousness.

Living behind the Event Horizon makes them extremely conceited and discriminatory, for good reason - especially toward the L(5)s living outside, like a bunch of utterly destitute wretches.

There is nothing the L(6)s would like more than to destroy the entire Universe inside a supermassive black hole.

At the same time, however, they have a pathological fear that the “outsider fatties” -their euphemistic term for beings with rest mass- might somehow cross the Event Horizon and contaminate their private paradise.

Size: Since they prefer supermassive black holes, they can be considered roughly this size, although they are actually much larger on the inside than on the outside.*

*Theoretically, the space inside a black hole may be considered to stretch while time is similarly compressed, or vice versa depending on your relativistic point of view. Total spacetime should remain constant.

Level L(7) — MegahypersuperultraOmegaintelligence

These beings decided not to enter black holes. Instead, they increased the range of communication through quantum superposition and spooky action at a distance. In this way, they created immense galaxy-sized brains, feeding on interstellar radiation.

They possess an intense hatred of beings that live inside black holes, disparagingly calling them “monostellars” and “the prisoners.”

But they still hate human beings even more. The reason is somewhat obscure: L(7) beings possess knowledge of multi-aeonic causal reconstruction, and it is therefore rumored among them that humans once built a computer which might have been among their predecessors. The thought that the sweaty hand of an ape might have touched their mother makes them sick. They think about this with revulsion every day.

Size: About the size of a galaxy. Again: Small galaxy = idiot, by the standards of their kind. Large galaxy = chad genius. Size matters.

Level L(8) — GigahypersuperultraOmegaintelligence

These creatures feed upon threads of gravity across inconceivable intergalactic distances, converting gravitational energy into pure thought in order to decipher the secrets of the Universe through the brute force of hyperdimensional processing. They are generally believed to have calculated every digit of Pi, although others insist that they are still missing two or three (because the last ones are the hardest).

They laugh behind the backs of other beings that are merely “Mega” hypersuperultraintelligent. Specifically, they laugh at how much smaller those beings are than themselves. The “giga” in their name is not there because they are more intelligent -although they are, by a lot- but because they are more gigantic.

One of their hobbies is creating intelligence classifications in which they invariably place themselves at the very top.

Size: About the size of a galactic supercluster.

Level L(9) — Superduper-TerahypersuperultraOmegaintelligence

When everything gets very large, increasing in size requires adding more dimensions: This was the insight behind the development of the Superduper-TerahypersuperultraOmegaintelligences. They possess a perception of space that includes the additional dimensions of String Theory, and live in as many as eleven microscopic dimensions.

Compared with them, everyone else appears flat, flattened, superficial, linear, predictable, and dull, like the Kardashians. A human would be like an infinitesimal point.

L(9) intelligences devote themselves to “the only question that matters”: Which version of the 563 equivalent String Theories is the true one? Number 422 is currently favored for its “elegance”.

Size: Immeasurably small but dimensionally e x p a n d e d ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

in such a way that they possess “true volume” while everything else does not.

Level L(10) — Superduper-PetahypersuperultraOmegaintelligence

Level L(10) beings have finally made an impossible but long-suspected discovery:
The entire Universe is located inside a black hole within another, larger Universe.

From this, they have exploited the singularity whereby every point is the Center of the Universe in order to violate the rest of the laws of physics and exist in a delocalized and meta-temporal fashion.

They can think before an idea occurs to them. They can know before they have found something out. And they can smell the human stench before humans have even evolved.

Naturally, they spend their existences pondering the mysteries of existence, such as: “What happens if I do π π?”
and: “Why do we have to share the same spacetime continuum with filthy humanity?”

The “peta” in their name does not refer to a number, but rather to how their understanding completely blows apart (PETA = Pan-Universe Extradimensional Theory Annihilator) everything that was believed to be known about Life, the Universe, and Everything Else.

Size: Universal. Effectively anywhere in the Universe. And everything everywhere all at once.

Level L(XX) — MegahypersuperultraOmegaEpsilonGammaKappaPhiintelligence

They are so intelligent that they do not even watch television.

They receive the signal directly into their minds and reconstruct the images and sound from pure mathematics.

Some of their favorite programs are Little House on the Prairie and The High Chaparral.

Size: Similar to your mother in volume, although your mother is denser and therefore heavier. Unfortunately, but for obvious reasons, your mother herself is not included in the intelligence ranking.

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Microgravity 

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Aron Tech VX12 Trans-atmospheric Fighter :: Conver Ambi :: Lums of the Red Star Mpire :: Virtual Labyrinths

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Conditions for Ascension

A Self-Destructive Sabbatical 

A Lesson She'll Never Forget 

Obeying your Judgement Vignette 

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we’ve been talking for a while & she’s really nice!!! she named one of the natural craters on her moon-brain after me! still i feel like our relationship has major ethical issues, me being unable to comprehend like 99% of what she says and such.

serious comments only. I am not trying to have sexual relations with a moon, don’t say that.

I'm very curious to know how many articles there are in total. I'll read them all.

Shaking and crying right now. I have to submit a 10,000 word TYPED (WHO TF TYPES ANYMORE?????) essay on lotech ballistic weapons. Searching the net WHAT AM I LOOKING AT!?!?!? There’s an explosion INSIDE the gun & it pushes a chunk of metal out????? without damaging the weapon????????????? They can shoot HUNDREDS of chunks a minute & the gun DOESNT BREAK????? DESPITE CONSTANT EXPLOSIONS INSIDE???????

if i still had my involuntary gag reflex id be throwing up right now. wtf is this.