morally restrained mad scientist

currently looking for Realities rule book so I can find loop holes

[gneissisanicerock]

Petition about Government AI use in New Zealand

"We need new laws with enforceable accountability to ensure that AI is working for us, not happening to us."

If you are a New Zealander and are anti-AI or just not fully on board with our government and public services using AI, I urge you to look into this.

A group of academics and people who have worked or currently work with AI (and therefore know a good bit about it) have started a petition for all government uses of AI to be transparent (i.e., that we, the public, are aware of what ai is being used for).

To quote their website, "This petition asks for government use of AI to be transparent to the public, have independent oversight, and be guided by what the public thinks is acceptable."

The Petition is as follows:

"That the House of Representatives legislate to require: 1) a public register of government AI systems’ function, performance, and impacts; 2) formal oversight mechanisms for government AI use, proportional to risk; and 3) involvement of the public in a deliberation process to define acceptable risk and use of AI in government systems."

Link to website below cut.

Trust Worthy AI

Our Government and public services are using AI. We deserve to know whether these systems are worthy of our trust. Using AI to streamline

[unstableisingsociety]

From The Void AU

A Minecraft worldbuilding / MCYT Pantheon au project we have been working on. All things - if you trace them back far enough - come from the Void. Everything from nothing. The stars, the sun, and the moon, created out of the gaps in between them. What if Minecraft was a universe made of galaxies?

What if servers were planets?

What if the Hermits were a crew terraforming and building up cities on far away worlds? What if the magic that the heart worlds (the first servers) were built on was fading?

[unstableisingsociety]

There are five layers to existence, to reality, to everything: Over, Aether, Ether, Nether, and Ender.

Over is both the simplest to explain and by far the most complex, because the Overworld is the universe as we know it (or as you know it; that is probably the better way to say it). It is planets and suns and distant stars, all separated by the cold, empty void of space. The closer you get to the Core, where magic once reigned, the odder things get. There is a higher concentration of planets made of floating islands, of spaces where the void is breathable, as if it were air by the sea.

If you get close enough to the Core, to the center of this galaxy, you find that planets themselves seem to cease to exist in favor of great rings drifting through space, grand floating islands hovering above nothing, and oceans without land beneath them. You step slightly further and now the air is breathable - the void, I mean. It is as if the chaos at the heart of the galaxy is simply a world as a server to itself, something created in chaos where order can reign, where life can survive, and death becomes something significant in its rarity.

The further from the Core you travel, out to the edges of the galaxy, the more you find something like an old sci-fi interpretation of planets and space. The further you travel out towards the edge, the fewer lingering remains of magic exist. Everything holds itself under its own power. Everything tends towards chaos with nothing to slow it down from its natural pursuit. Some worlds - some planets, called "servers" mostly these days - are entirely one biome, being too close or too far from their star for water and environments to truly thrive in their differences.

[unstableisingsociety]

There are many, many worlds. Most are not named. They all have IDs, but names? Why would they need names? You memorize the ID of the world you grew up in, but you only call it "home."

Most worlds call themselves some sort of name meaning "home planet," "homeland," "place where we can rest," "place of safety," or "place of rest." Some of the older planets call themselves a name that means "stone." Some, those still affected by the conquests and battles of their histories, keep the names that other worlds gave them. Sometimes worlds rename themselves.

But world to world, planet to planet, server to server, most are known by only their IDs. The named worlds, well, they are all known for a reason.

[unstableisingsociety]

Computer simulations have no calculations that can account for the existence of Demigods. No probability calculations, no recorded statistics from other instances, not anything that could possibly work. So the first sign that this was not season 8 but a simulation should have been that Pearl and Grian weren't quite right.

[unstableisingsociety]

Notes from Magical Physics 101 

Lecture 1: Introduction. 

09/02/2016 AD

Magic's interaction with the physical is facilitated by 4 particles/forces/waves (depending on the current interpretation you are using)

They are:

Push/Pull

This is the simplest one, allowing magic to be converted to momentum or vice versa.

[note to self: lecturer is very slow talker]

Restore

This is a force which essentially tries to return the amount of magic present to near 0, a small amount of this permeates everywhere, though it can be focused to make more effective

Maintain

This force tries to maintain an object's current form, which in this course will primarily be observed in contrast to the restorative force

Emulate

This is the one this course will look at the least. Its distinctness from the rest is subtle enough in this course, where we’ll primarily be using it to explain minor deviations from experimental and theoretical results. 

The main differences between Magical-Physical and purely physical interactions are as follows:

Magical-physical is less restrained by distance and time due to magic being seemingly disconnected from both or, at most, only slightly linked to spacetime.

Instead of forming atom-like structures with a nucleus and orbiting charges, these interactions are best thought of as forming knots. Additionally, they are a lot less stable. In general, these knots will be loosened over time by the opposing forces of restoring and maintaining. The arrangement of a knot determines its effects.  

A spell is generally a large burst of the same knot. The number of knots in a spell is generally measured with a logarithmetic method called Faries(Fr), with the formula being 10^Fr = knots

Magical-physical interactions are a lot more manipulable than purely physical interactions. For example, with enough control, it is possible to make an Einstein-Rosen bridge (wormhole). 

[note to self: already knew this]

Purely magical forces have no direct connection to the physical and often only bleed through into reality at points where there is an extremely intense amount of physical, or magical - physical forces occuring. Some examples of this would be black holes, a small amount at the boundary of an atom, and -notably the only man made example and the only one relying on magical - physical force- the philosopher stone’s power source the large hadron collider. 

The physical philosopher's stone is actually just the output valve of magical engineer Nicholas Flamel’s magical syphon, which operates by applying an intense amount of pull/push circularly, maintained by a strong maintaining force surrounding it to maintain a lack of restorative effects.

Reading for lecture 2:

Physical vs Magical-Physical Forces: A Starting Explanation; June 2003; Elizaveta Kane, Kahurangi Kauri Smith; pg 37-41

Further reading

Magical Conduits by Perenelle Flamel (1771)

[unstableisingsociety]

Hi internet folks. 

Sy (@syaraan) and Quark (@residentofthepresent) here. 

This blog is for posting about the projects we are working on together.

We write for Life Series / Hermitcraft, Harry Potter / wider wizarding world (yes, I know), and other stuff (who knows what, yet)!

We are both, both world building nerds and scientists! So expect the expected combination of those two things from this blog. 

From the Void AU - #ftvau #fromthevoidAU - A greek myth inspired minecraft/mcyt worldbuilding project that Sy started back in 2023 and Quark joined in 2025. 

Things reblogged from, or created by @residentofthepresent - #quarks stuff

Things reblogged from, or created by @syaraan - #Sy's stuff

[residentofthepresent]

Advice for dealing with prophecies

Note to all aspiring antagonists: stop working against prophecy. Prophecy generally tells something that will happen and generally can't be stopped; however, most prophecies are very vague and have loopholes. USE THEM.

E.g.

prophecy:

Only young child x can kill you./child x will kill you

Solution:

Don’t try to kill them, raise them to rule alongside you forever, and enjoy your near immortality until they kill you as a mercy in your old age.

Prophecy:

You will die on (specific date).

Solutions:

Get involved in a game that involves the player character's death, play it, and die that day.

Alternate solutions include removing that date from the calendar

Prophecy:

Main rival can’t be kill be any man or blade.

Solution:

Send a woman with a hammer

[395nm]

Fuck Meyer-Briggs whatever typology. This INTFP shit is only for redditors up their own asses to substitute for a personality. Use my new typology instead!

Your ideal environment is:

Hot/Cold

Wet/Dry

Bright/Dark

Loud/Quiet

[blueishspace]

Cold

Dry

Mix? Like twilight, I can't choose.

Quiet

[syaraan]

cold

dry

dark

quiet

this was very easy

@residentofthepresent what's yours

[residentofthepresent]

the same

cold

dry

dark

quiet

[aster-lives-here]

smth i made bcs i love the minecraft end poem

forgot to add the aster-lives-here watermark but thats finnneeeeeee

[mango-fizz]

because you are love.

And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love.

You are the player.

Wake up.

[quirky-quark]

And the universe said I love you

And the universe said you have played the game well

And the universe universe said everything you need is within you

And the universe said you are stronger than you know

And the universe said you are the daylight

And the universe said you are the night

And the universe said the darkness you fight is within you

And the universe said the light you seek is within you

And the universe said you are not alone

And the universe said you are not separate from every other thing

And the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code

And the universe said I love you because you are love.

[residentofthepresent]

Were leaving Gaia’s embrace now,

Stepping out of her comforting womb to her husband's cold arms

In his uncaring grasp, we can look out upon the universe.

Hopping he doesn’t drop us before we learn to walk

[residentofthepresent]

The night sky A tapestry of stars

Each light a thread to be revealed

Stories unfold from worlds afar

To be told not left concealed 

Black holes hiding distant eye’s

Time rolls back to the ancient past 

Nebulas forming far away sky’s

We set out exploring at last

We voyage back to the moon

After half an age we will return

And then further we’ll travel soon

To see what the universe has for us to learn

[residentofthepresent]

Chapters: 2/? Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Mace Windu, Luke Skywalker, Plo Koon, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Leia Organa, Bail Organa, Breha Organa, Owen Lars, Beru Whitesun Additional Tags: One Shot Collection, Reincarnation, Alternate Universe - Reincarnation Summary:

This is a collection of Star Wars What Ifs and AUs that we came up with and started writing. So far we have: 1) Plo and Mace Skywalker AU - Plo Koon and Mace Windu wake up post O66 in the child bodies of Luke and Leia.

[galactic-rhea]

You're loved.

Transcription on alt text.

Oh man, I'm tired. But I'm glad i commited to the bit and actually finished this, full color and all! It was an uphill battle, because of the power outages almost daily, how many details i added, busy life, my mental illnesses lol But! Is finished, at last! Self indulgent, i know.

[Tip jar!]

[giveskywalkeragun]

It's fucking 8 am in the morning and I have a class at uni! I CAN'T CRY! SOMEBODY, HAND ME A TISSUE OR A HANDKERCHIEF BEFORE I'LL DROWN MYSELF IN TEARS! T^T

[residentofthepresent]

@a-tragedy-in-perfection

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

Source

[physics-dirtbag]

Might I add:

[residentofthepresent]

galaxys have antisocial tendencies and push each other away