Hello!
I'm a relatively new user of OA, and I have read quite a few EG articles. I was pointed here by a YouTube video by Isaac Arthur, host of Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. I was hooked from the start, though I didn't realize that there was an intro/illustrated primer for a while. I have some questions about multiple areas of the EG.
I'm a relatively new user of OA, and I have read quite a few EG articles. I was pointed here by a YouTube video by Isaac Arthur, host of Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. I was hooked from the start, though I didn't realize that there was an intro/illustrated primer for a while. I have some questions about multiple areas of the EG.
- Why fractals? -- In certain places, most notably the article about "neurofractal patterning", my question is: Does it have to be a fractal? Please answer below.
- What do wormholes look like on the inside? -- The EG article "Wormholes: A Layman's Guide" describes wormholes in a way that makes it seem like wormholes look like long tunnels from the perspective of spacecraft moving through them. Is this really how they look in the setting? Again, please answer below.
- That's not how hacking works! -- A certain EG article on the risks of using DNIs seems to imply that it is possible to bodyjack someone by sending some combination of bits at their DNI. Of course, one should expect the particular data sequence to differ between DNIs, but it sure seems like the article is implying that someone (probably of at least SI: 1) could bodyjack a modosophont by simply sending (ridiculously complex) data at their DNI. As the title of this paragraph says, that's not how hacking works! It would be fine if the hacker had some hardware in the DNI working with them, but with only software and/or data (both just sequences of bits), there are ways to make bodyjacking impossible even to an SI: 6 or something as long as they can only work with data: the target can (to quote Isaac Arthur) "slap the big red disconnect button in their head" at any time. This goes for many other things too: for example, if someone doesn't want to experience the death of the person they're linked to via DNI technotelepathy as they're vented from a hab, they simply hang up. To quote Isaac Arthur again, "Hollywood makes it look like it's possible to hack anything."