You outrageous bastards.

Ain't anonymity great? Yeah, this thing is not really anonymous enough for me.

'Cause y'all know who I am, but YOU're not reading this. Or commenting.

Bleh. Enough bitching. Content time!

We need to discover a way to interact directly with the network that is humanity.
Not with the people of which it is composed, but with the network itself and its emergent intelligence.

Now, polls and the like are terrible ways of doing this, because they're averages, and we're trying to study fine structures here. Taking an average is like pureeing a brain to see what thoughts are in it.

Now, the new neural interfaces being created these days usually have electrodes directly inserted into the brain, stimulating as few brain cells as possible while still solidly affecting a region of the brain. When I say "as few as possible," though, we're still talking tens of thousands.

What am I jabbering on about? Well, the way I see it, we need to extend a few electrodes to humanity. Have them be different sensory experiences, none of them linked back to us that any one person will know about. Cross-correlate the data and start trying to get repeatable responses. Once we've done this, we've established an uplink to the metaintelligence and we can begin communicating with the most fascinating creature ever studied.

We need a small number of variables, tightly controlled.

Please help me design this.


Please don't slip back into the haze.

I know how it happens. UST sucks and you just want to chill with the few people who don't suck.

But please. PLEASE. Hold onto the drive. Hold on to the energy. Keep tabs on each other. Keep each other psyched. Don't go into survival mode. Don't go into survival mode.

Don't give in to brain crack.

Express yourself.

Don't let them crush the single part of you that matters most...





Your voice.