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- Wed Jan 05, 2022 9:00 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6280
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Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
Bidets have the problem that you need to get dry afterwards. That takes either towels or a blower. They are also not actually more hygienic than toilet paper, unless you use a wet cloth or your hands . Which you could be using without a bidet for the same effect. What you can't scrape off with toile...
- Wed Jan 05, 2022 2:12 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6280
- Views: 5043266
Re: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
silver_moon1.jpg That hair is short for a Loroi of nearly 50 years. Are males with long hair frowned upon? Bidet or toilet paper to wipe their rear end? And I would envy any Teidar with fine PK control... since they could literally use PK to to have a clean butt every time they go. Without TP or a ...
- Mon Jan 03, 2022 12:46 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7146
Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
@gaerzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger Pretty sure ligers cannot breed with humans. :P The hybrid creatures obtained this way have a lot of health problems, including sterility for the males. They're not going to outbreed either the lions or the tigers. So moot point. Nobody has tried yet. Thi...
- Sat Jan 01, 2022 10:58 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7146
Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
@gaerzi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
@Demarquis
If they replace us by breeding with us, most people would agree. But what about a species that outbreeds us and is not interbreeding with us?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
@Demarquis
If they replace us by breeding with us, most people would agree. But what about a species that outbreeds us and is not interbreeding with us?
- Sat Jan 01, 2022 6:03 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7146
Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
So they have even more opportunity to outbreed the human genes?
- Sat Jan 01, 2022 2:48 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7146
Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
I see no significant difference with a deliberately designed species (or AI, for that matter). They won't act as a monolythic species, all of whom share the same goals or act together as one. They will be individuals, people like us. And like us, some of them will act destructively, and some cooper...
- Tue Dec 28, 2021 6:18 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7146
Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
An employer doesn't create his workers from scratch, so it's not a particularly good argument. Neither would tweaking an existing species be creating one from scratch. Negotiating employment is an everyday example of how an utilitarian way of thinking can be used in mutually beneficial ways. You se...
- Mon Dec 27, 2021 3:40 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7146
Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
The strictly utilitarian approach of whether it's delicious or useful won't work on someone who can actually voice their objections. Sapience does not invalidate an utilitarian perspective. Have you never negotiated employment? Therefore, we would need to be mature enough to handle this completely ...
- Sun Dec 26, 2021 7:05 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7146
Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
@Cthulhu A strong emotional response to an argument is a telltale sign of an inability to formulate a rational refutation. You are the only one talking about race here. Now, you seem to have misunderstood my post. I softly brought up real world examples of design processes that work fine without ful...
- Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:27 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Outsider Versus Other Webcomics
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11779
Re: Outsider Versus Other Webcomics
I have a list of links to some webcomics that I think are really good. In particular, Ashley Cope's and Der-shing Helmer's comics have both really good artwork and interesting well-written plots. Which is a combination that I find to be unfortunately rare in webcomics. Then you might enjoy http://w...
- Sat Dec 25, 2021 12:17 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7146
Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
This is one of the biggest reasons why we, as a species, cannot advance past certain limitations. [...] To design a completely new species is truly playing god, not because it attempts to mimic omnipotence, but due to it needing omniscience. The consequences will be otherwise utterly unpredictable....
- Fri Dec 24, 2021 8:49 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7146
Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
Well, a living, breathing community offers some perks that technology just can't give you. In addition, technology needs continuous maintenance, educated users and quite a lot of resources. A species not only maintains itself, it grows on its own and ideally contributes to your production base. A hu...
- Thu Dec 23, 2021 4:45 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
- Replies: 43
- Views: 7146
Re: Designing Human Offshoots That Won't Wipe Out Humanity
The only reason to design a new species is that you need people with an ability portfolio that your own species can't produce and which you do not want to get by genetic engineering of your own genome. That means the new species will be better in some areas than your own. But also worse in others. T...
- Tue Dec 21, 2021 4:52 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Miscellaneous Loroi question-and-answer thread
- Replies: 6280
- Views: 5043266
- Wed Dec 08, 2021 11:38 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22253
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
Anyway, racism was the thread's topic and that's the reason I analyzed and deconstructed it in order to get to its core. [...]I used the scientific definition of group biases in general, not the narrower explanation of a single one. 1. This thread is about why racism would exist in scifi, not on ra...
- Wed Dec 08, 2021 8:29 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22253
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
Okay. Let's say aliens can't be racist because they do not have human instincts. But love, happiness, friendship, hunger and every other human emotion is also based on instincts. Please explain to me why this argument is only brought up with something you don't like to think about? You don't appear ...
- Tue Dec 07, 2021 8:50 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22253
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
A UN resolution on racial discrimination is not a definition of racism. :roll: Try a dictionary or two or three Really, that you have to draw on the UN instead of treating it like any other foreign word should give you pause. And then you use wikipedia to claim that because human decision making is ...
- Sat Dec 04, 2021 9:48 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22253
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
Not every unequal treatment is actually racism, you see. There are many definitions, a number of them even politically loaded, but they do have something in common. The key is that the reason for the difference must be neither logical nor objective. Please familiarise yourself with the words you ar...
- Sat Dec 04, 2021 9:58 am
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22253
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
@Cthulhu Racism is unequal treatment based on race. That treatment can either be holding opinions about different races, feeling negatively about one race or actually taking different actions based on race. The cause of this treatment or whether it is justified or not is not part of the definition. ...
- Thu Dec 02, 2021 10:36 pm
- Forum: Outsider Discussion
- Topic: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
- Replies: 77
- Views: 22253
Re: Aiien Racism... Why It Would Exist In A Scifi Setting
That's exactly the problem, we are wired to assign people into groups and label them on a subconscious level. Therefore, it is an inherently subjective process that will always be unequal, unless we can get rid of our feelings altogether. Aliens will have other instincts in this regard, or even a l...