I always suspected that DaaaahWhoosh was Canadian... What makes a good man go neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
I'm highly inclined to go back and watch the show for a second time, just because I like it that much.
We may also want to consider smaller, more frequent shows that address just a single question or small set of questions. 1.5 hours is a lot of material to digest.
@Green I feel 10-15 mins an episode is too short, myself. A podcast should be more something to listen on a city commute, or over a lunch break, less something to watch during a commercial break. :P
@Green I mean I think the video certain adds, but i don't see why we should limit the length based on it being a video unless we drastically begin engaging the visual medium.
I currently like the video at the moment because I don't know your voices well enough yet to pick out who is who by voice alone. I can look at the video and see who's talking. And if no one is talking then it's whoosh. After a few episodes it'll probably be less of a problem.
If we get good at this, we can get setup in less than 10 minutes, talk for 15 to 20 (trim out the stuff we don't want to broadcast) then upload the Audio-video for processing.
I want to attempt to introduce a species based on a quote that's always stuck with me since I first heard it. However the species, by implication of the quote, would be so drastically different from humans on a mental/brain chemistry level, I'm not sure where to begin.
Like figuring out how they think, act... what civilizations might look like with them, etc.
Basically creatures so different from us on a brain chemistry level (even if their physical bodies might look human from the outside) that governments, for both external security, internal security, and to combat internal selfish desires among the internal struggles... wouldn't have a functional purpose. The concept of needing a government would just be alien to them.
Nah, human all except their brains, @AndyD273.
Like I feel like that'd be an incredibly interesting species in a setting, but I don't know how to approach it.
James Madison was arguing that people are flawed and selfish and generally morally compromised, making governments necessary. 'Angels' is just used metaphorically in the quote.
@Green I dunno. Biology, chemistry, and meteorology have never been my strong suits. I was more curious about what the culture would possibly be like. The easy concept is 'pleasant humans' but like... their brains would have to be wired so totally different than our own it's baffling to think about.
The only way that I can see to get around the requirement to be selfish is to be immortal and possibly eternal, to the point where there isn't really a need to do thing for themselves or their descendants at the expense of others, because there is always time to put others first.
@NexTerren Yeah, for normal humans, you have good and evil. This requires a certain set of world view axioms. If you substitute in a completely different set of world-view axioms, you get a different set of morals. To convey this, the term blue-orange morality was created.
My favorite example is that normal humans consider nukes to be really bad. However, if you're immortal/eternal then nukes aren't all that bad. Eve Online players shoot each other with nukes for fun!
Okay, but say I want to break down figuring out this race (especially the culture/individual interaction) to a series of scope-appropriate questions for World Building. What do you guys think the questions would be?
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I was THINKING for the first question I'd ask "how would society be with an absence of government and the absence for a need of government?" but that feels way too wide. And I'm having trouble making it less wide. ...And it also feels opinion based? I think? WBing and opinion based always feels like trying to hold Jello.
Yeah, why I always vote to leave those questions alone. If the person is looking for opinions, let the people that want to participate give them opinions.
@AndyD273 Well the big three I thought of in relation to the quote were protection from external violence, protection from internal violence, and setting internal disputes of self-driven interest.
@TrEs-2b Like seriously. I could see a couple tossed your way and no upvotes, but... they seriously put you in the ground. I don't get it.
@Green Right, I guess I should introduce that. I was even having trouble defining a technology level in my question (since technology affects culture, and culture technology) since the progress of technology would be so alien as compared to our own.
@NexTerren I think if you decide on these angel's biology, you'll get their motivations to act pretty quickly from that. With motivations, you'll get what kinds of technology they favor. From favored tech, you can map out it's evolution.
Or, I'd be really interested in taking a shot at modeling that evolution, if you are especially keen on it.
OK, so protection from external violence; Either there are no external threats, or if there is an external threat every member selflessly works together to remove it without needing to be told to. Internal threats aren't a problem if everyone knows what everyone else is thinking through telepathy or whatever. People who are mentally ill or distressed would be noticed and helped right away.
@TrEs-2b Amen! It's that nice mix between predictable and unpredictable. It's a simple question of "In general, will this capability make something survive better over another individual who doesn't have this capability?"
@TrEs-2b I wrote a agent based simulation for one question. What happens in a species with three genders (basically humans but where lesbians can have children together without male involvement).
This is a really interesting species to think about. Since the problem isn't easily done in the mind, I did some agent-based modeling to see what would happen. A more extensive write-up of that question can be found on WorldBuilding's blog on Medium.com.
My primary finding was that the ratio o...
@TrEs-2b So I double-checked, triple-checked, and quadrupled-checked what I said, saying to myself "...Maybe it does read that way?" but I'm still not seeing the ambiguity as compared to your version. :P
@NexTerren it's one of those stupid English grammar rules that make no sense and are un-noticeable. Give me a minute, I'll check one of my language books to see if I can find the rule
Canada is the best except when we're burning down capitals, enslaving foreigners to build railroads, selling asbestos or forcing assimilation by residential schools
Hans isle is definitely entertaining as is Machias Seal Island. Whiskey and Lighthouses are our only involvement in these
something I noticed in the podcast that bothered me was that only Green answers the question; what worlds would you want to be involved with in worldbuilding stack exchange
he goes on about the cloth eating sock moster then you guys just, move on
Yeah that was sort of meant to be a follow up question for him based on the answer before it, but in retrospect that would have been a good question for everyone.
The recent Great Lakes Earth Series has made me wonder, should questions, that share no common name, about a world be linked on meta?
unlike arguments on Planet of the Aves Series and Anatomically Correct Series have pointed out, question such as these lack a common feature and begs the question.
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Thanks to Green, DaaaaWhoosh, Nex and Art for making it all possible.
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This is a really interesting species to think about. Since the problem isn't easily done in the mind, I did some agent-based modeling to see what would happen. A more extensive write-up of that question can be found on WorldBuilding's blog on Medium.com.
My primary finding was that the ratio o...
The recent Great Lakes Earth Series has made me wonder, should questions, that share no common name, about a world be linked on meta?
unlike arguments on Planet of the Aves Series and Anatomically Correct Series have pointed out, question such as these lack a common feature and begs the question.
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