Neurocracy

by evo_9 • 5 years ago

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anigbrowl2• 5 years ago

You can do this right now for real if you're really interested. What OSINT does not guarantee is the epistemic closure of a crafted experience.

imwillofficial• 5 years ago

Any resources on getting started in the real world?

anigbrowl2• 5 years ago

Depends on what topic you're interested in really. If it's people, look up Michael Bazzell's stuff. Or there are all kinds of data science problems going unsolved.

_1tan• 5 years ago

How?

fouc• 5 years ago

“I looked at Neurocracy and thought: this is perfect. It gave me vibes of Deus Ex, the SCP wiki, and of Borges’ Garden of Forking Paths.”

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/14/22577088/neurocracy-wikip...

tpoacher• 5 years ago

The in-universe text in Deus Ex had such a profound worldbuilding influence on Truyens that he included its lead writer, Sheldon Pacotti, in Omnipedia.

This just made me want to play this. Sheldon Pacotti is an absolute genius. I started reading his books after finding out he was the lead scriptwriter in Deus Ex, and they've been amazing.

Having said that, the quote above is ironic, since Pacotti wrote the script, not the in-game texts. Those were written by someone else, whose name escapes me now ...

On the bright side, I'll be remembering soon, since now that Deus Ex had been mentioned, I'll have to reinstall it again ...

sweetheart• 5 years ago

Just started digging through the first chapter (I think?), which is linked to on the main page. This is so, so cool. What a fun and interesting idea.

systemvoltage• 5 years ago

Realism of this is so eerily remarkable.

animanoir• 5 years ago

I do find this pretty cool.

gnulinux• 5 years ago

Very cool concept.

keeganpoppen• 5 years ago

other than the weird fixation on Drupal (i kid, i kid), this is really, really cool

josters• 5 years ago

Even before starting there are these cookie messages:

[ ] Neurometric montages: If you are equipped with a neurometric colloid, such as those administered with a membership of G6, Omnipedia may use this function to authenticate your login automatically and continuously for up to eight hours.

[ ] Behavioural montages: Omnipedia's algorithms can keep track of your emotional state and, depending on your reactions, highlight content that piques a particular interest or restrict content that may be deemed upsetting or inappropriate.

Aeolun2• 5 years ago

Lol. I’m not sure how realistic this is any more.

Pandemic that prompts global neural monitoring: 1,620,450 infections (with a death toll of 39,705)

Pandemic that prompts… mild pressure to get vaccinated: 218,946,836 infections (with a death toll of 4,539,723)

To be fair, CMD sounds more unpleasant.

josephcsible4• 5 years ago

s/mild pressure to get vaccinated/a massive curtailing of freedom and privacy everywhere/

Yoric• 5 years ago

Frankly, whether you agree or not with the rationales, in comparison to any previous vaccination campaign, this one is really, really mild.

I think that I would have preferred a more straightforward law that mandates vaccination, rather than the more flexible/mild/sneaky approach taken by many governments, but I know that I would have hated being the one who makes any kind of public health call during this entire covid pandemic.

Aeolun2• 5 years ago

Yes, yes, absolutely massive.

Please wear a mask, and please stay home as much as possible. Very onerous. We’ve had lockdowns, but even those generally allow you to go outside for a walk.

rkagerer• 5 years ago

This snagged my interest but after a while I found myself wishing there were a "next day" button.

Is there some secret to progressing through the plot or do you have to click through every link and read through every minutia and all the change history of each article?

Or is the "secret" to buy a pass? (I was hoping the free sample experience would have some sort of conclusion.)

MrsPeaches• 5 years ago

"The story of Neurocracy is episodic and unfolds across ten consecutive days in the year 2049. Each episode represents a snapshot of a single day"

"Neurocracy is out now! Visit Omnipedia to access the first episode. To unlock the full experience, buy the season pass."

mellosouls• 5 years ago

Choose your own adventure...

sbierwagen• 5 years ago

520 error when you try to buy the season pass. Bummer.

zzzaim• 5 years ago

Anybody remember / still play [Nomics]? I thought this was something like that, but I guess it's different.

Which got me thinking, what if it was like a Nomic?

Imagine cloning an exact copy of Wikipedia on another server. Then have 2 player teams: bad guys and good guys. The bad guys edit/write articles to cover their tracks. The good guys scour articles and article histories trying to uncover the truth. Maybe there needs to be a "game master" team that does some type of moderation? I don't know, just spit balling here. Too crazy?

[Nomics]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

jdiez17• 5 years ago

There's Agora Nomic [1] which has been active for many years but I find it rather tedious to get into ongoing Nomic games.

I have had a few fun Nomic games on Etherpad + IRC, but it's difficult to find people interested in playing realtime Nomic these days.

[1] https://agoranomic.org/

spats1990• 5 years ago

CMD is in the fish! it's in the fish! we're all gonna die horribly

abvdasker• 5 years ago

This looks similar to a very entertaining game I played a while ago called Orwell. It’s mostly text based and simulates the experience of being an intelligence/signals analyst in a dystopian surveillance state.

patentatt• 5 years ago

The only problem I have with it so far is that the future worlds’ wealthiest person made his fortune from a drupal consultancy, lol.

wizzwizz4• 5 years ago

There's no Omnipedia article for “lamp”.

tarboreus• 5 years ago

It feels a little on the nose. I clicked "random article", and there's an article on the United States. Shockingly, the things in the headlines in the news over the past 2-5 years caused a massive decline.

Maybe I've just read too much history, but the random topics of the day and trends that people care about one decade are almost universally irrelevant or forgotten in five decades. Some things were, in fact, important, but become background issues as people accept and adapt. Others are overblown, wrong, or artifacts on the political or cultural environment, i.e. proxies for anxieties that are generational or for the interests of a major institutional power with a short- or medium-term agenda.

That is to say, if I were to create a wiki for the mid twenty-first century, I'd make it alienating, not comfortably extrapolative. The concerns of the populace should be head-scratchers for us. People should be arguing about shades in social strata that don't exist now, waxing moral on norms we haven't invented, and making jokes we don't have the context to get. Sociopolitically, we should expect a layering of cultural and political movements. In fifty years, that might include some kind of Reaganesque conservative reassertion, some kind of orthogonal or approximately novel social movement, and some kind of progressive or liberal progressive advance, and each reacting to one another and sticking around to greater or lesser extents.

I think we will also be suprised to see what looks like zero or minimal progress in some areas that are currently hyped. I'll leave considering those as an exercise for the reader.

Basically, the future is messy and alienating. We'll be old then, if we're alive, and the concerns of that day will not be the concerns of ours, or even extrapolations on those concerns.

ramesh31• 5 years ago

Does anyone else remember EA's "Majestic"? Whatever happened to these types of games?

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