Talk:The System

From Post-Self

The origins of the System

Via a discussion with User:The Lament:

  • Beginnings conducted in secret
  • Development was fast and loose without much in the way of understanding
  • RJ first upload utilizing the Lost
  • As such, the scientists never really learned how it worked
  • After there were a few hundred to a thousand uploads and the text line was well established, it was revealed to the world as a challenge: we did this and we can prove it
  • In late 2115, Jonas Anderson, leader of a party in shadow government of the WF, was chosen+volunteered as first upload. He was provided with a secret to memorize so that he could prove it if the upload was successful — WF believed that this was essentially a big fake AI scam, but Jonas earnestly believed it
  • Flown to neutral ground (Antarctica?) to upload for proof of no tampering (first upload outside of Yakutsk, only used for political officials)
  • This was widely pulicized by the S-R Bloc, though less so in the WF
  • WF ate crow
  • Arguments continued about the ethics of S-R Bloc's technology (especially given the gruesome nature of uploading), but the desires of the people won out

Makyo (talk) 19:39, 24 March 2025 (UTC)