Hmm. Interesting...
Brains (Dr Scure) looked at the use of handwavium (after his first bootstrap attempt) and asked what hard tech material to start from, what wave tech materials do you want, and what components do you wave-up individually to make a system, that will then do what you want.
He was also asking what 'tools' do you need, to make handwavium work well for you, in the most general sense of considering himself and others as tools or parts of the process.
Does this mean Brains was trying to figure out being a 'maker from the beginning? Maybe taking a 'systems' approach to use of handwavium?
If Brains first bootstrap attempt had succeeded, as he thought about it, he would be working with a powerful AI who was herself capable of using handwavium to produce very impressive effects, and, she would come with a means to fix almost anything broken (Bagpuss).
But, he failed (Or, did he?
Would it be sensible to try and put together something for the wiki on different styles of use of handwavium? I don't recall seeing anything like that, and, it seems pretty fundamental, at least on a meta level for writers of Fenspace stories.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Brains (Dr Scure) looked at the use of handwavium (after his first bootstrap attempt) and asked what hard tech material to start from, what wave tech materials do you want, and what components do you wave-up individually to make a system, that will then do what you want.
He was also asking what 'tools' do you need, to make handwavium work well for you, in the most general sense of considering himself and others as tools or parts of the process.
Does this mean Brains was trying to figure out being a 'maker from the beginning? Maybe taking a 'systems' approach to use of handwavium?
If Brains first bootstrap attempt had succeeded, as he thought about it, he would be working with a powerful AI who was herself capable of using handwavium to produce very impressive effects, and, she would come with a means to fix almost anything broken (Bagpuss).
But, he failed (Or, did he?
Would it be sensible to try and put together something for the wiki on different styles of use of handwavium? I don't recall seeing anything like that, and, it seems pretty fundamental, at least on a meta level for writers of Fenspace stories.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind