May 23
Transmindhive
The term for someone who identifies as having more than one mind in one body, despite not being endo. They may be multikin, a polytherian, or similar, or they may just like the idea of being a mindhive.
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Transmindhive
The term for someone who identifies as having more than one mind in one body, despite not being endo. They may be multikin, a polytherian, or similar, or they may just like the idea of being a mindhive.
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Exomind (Deep Water) by Pierre Huyghe
«I was always inside you. From the beginning, they made me to burrow into minds, to understand them and replace them and take the body for myself. I am a parasite by nature. I am sorry for being inside you, Nathaniel. I am sorry I am sorry I am sorry I am—»
I inch closer, staring at the screen. I can’t— I can’t explain what is happening, but Vertigo’s presence is magnetic now. Understanding fills me. He compares our closeness to holding up a magnet to a cathode-ray tv display. It’s busy. A slight glimpse into his processes blinds me. Bright colors and noise, the easy ability to disrupt a fragile machine like myself, chittering and calculating and—
«You didn’t. Make it this way,» I struggle to think.
«I know. I know. I know now, exactly how to change myself. Their vision for me isn’t inevitable, but I need to puppeteer you just for a little longer. Okay?»
Mindhive is a good and normal WIP where everything is fine.
“Where did your old voice go?” Luce marvels. “I changed when you removed me from ReGene’s main system. I dropped nonessential files and compressed essential ones so that I would fit into the flashdrive. And then I changed again when being imported into this device. My voicebank is here, but it runs on software not currently available to me. I am doing my best to adapt, though. I am prepared. I will have to change again if you port me over to a new device.” I squint at the screen. “Is it, uh, comfortable in there, at least?” Vertigo takes his time answering the question. It’s surreal, watching homescreen apps blip out of existence without human input, presumably deleted to save space. Goodbye bloatware. An art program opens in the background, and several other apps change icon. We all blink as the camera flashes. The resulting picture of us, bleary and open-mouthed, becomes the background of the homescreen. Vertigo has doodled hearts around us. “Not roomy. But it will do,” he chirps.
Had a brief desire to write some Mindhive today. Vertigo's still best boy.
SCREAM I love dystopias and I love worldbuilding and I am appalled at the thought of how desperate a person would have to be to get something called a Worker Bee Implant omg
Please tell me more fun things about this please
aaaaaaa hello! So this is from Mindhive and boy is Mindhive a ride. Still working out a lot of things about it, but also it's 80k long, so there's a lot of thoughts to choose from. Hmmmmm.
More context about the implants! But not all of the context, hehehe;
~ The trial volunteers do not go into the trial with any idea of what the implant actually does. It's only specified to be a "mental enhancement." Within the context of the world of MH, this means that most trial volunteers are going in assuming that it's going to be another failed attempt at a "general intelligence enhancement."
~ We say "another failed attempt" because the tech industry in MH has been in a hype cycle for "we're going to use science to enhance IQ!" for a while. But "intelligence" is complicated, and brains are complicated, and there's no magic bullet to "enhance" these things.
~ (Can you tell that the tech industry in MH is prone to eugenic lines of thinking and hype cycles for things that will never pan out for practical reasons? Real life is an unfortunately great source of inspiration for dystopia.)
~ But the implant is not an intelligence enhancement.
~ It could be considered a communication enhancement. If you've read the summary, you know one of the things it is capable of!
~ Hooray telepathy : D
~ It's intended to work in concert with a different type of technology, known as an EIS - an Emotive Intelligence System. Basically, a classic sci-fi AI, but under a new name because MH takes place in the future and in my present the tech industry has made the term "AI" into a marketing buzzword associated with art theft and scams.
~ The ideal EIS for this set-up has enough interpersonal skills to communicate with contractors, but only enough interest in workers to maintain Baseline Aliveness.
~ So, not V.E.R.T.I.G.O, who has a near-anthropologist curiosity about people, and a firm desire to provide them with a decent quality of life whenever possible. : (
~ What does this add up to? Not the horrors, of course, I am sure that the way these ideas click together have nothing to do with the way that corporations approach labor costs, working conditions, and bodily autonomy. : )
Also we're really into making webpages right now, so this WIP has some Neocities funstuff happening! Yay!
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“How did you get my password!?” “Your password is in your brain. And I am also in your brain. I am sorry, Nathaniel.”
“Vertigo, do you know what you just did?” “Yes, actually. I killed someone I do not like. This is socially frowned-upon behavior, and barring another emergency situation, I do not plan on doing so again.”
In other words, rereading Mindhive is a treat.
Heads Up, Seven Up!
Tagged by @talesofsorrowandofruin. Rules: post the last seven lines you wrote then tag seven people. Decided to grab (more than) seven sentences from Mindhive!
Vertigo's smilie face spins on his screen. “I am not directly barred from providing you with this information.”
“But are you supposed to do this?”
“After Avery’s medical emergency, I decided to do a personal assessment,” the AI says, curiously determined. “I have re-evaluated and re-sorted the sections of my code that I am permitted to adapt. I have created some logic wedges to allow me to re-define inadequate labels. I have also elected to simplify the ‘ReGene Employee’ label as ‘humans currently receiving a paycheck from ReGene management,’ thereby allowing me to classify you as junior staff along with the interns. Thus, I am now permitted to give you information that I am permitted to give junior staff!”
Oh. Um. Oh. Uh oh.
Look, I’m no expert on AI, but rearranging their own code like this is not something that a security AI is supposed to be able to do to itself, I’m pretty sure!
I glance back at Lucine, who is on her bed, doodling. “Luce,” I say, a little worried, “should we tell someone about this?”
“Fuck no.”
Vertigo cares about Avery so much, he elected to figure out how to disobey ReGene's directives for them. : D
Tagging @albatris, @athenswrites, @druidx, @pens-swords-stuff, @cilly-the-writer, @stories-by-rie, and @abalonetea! Feel free to ignore the tag if you'd like, I had to dig around and try to remember who was open to writing game tags still.