thought experiment: if you could turn the entire human race into a hivemind

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Ahundredbux: Oct 25, 2007; The right to bear arms

you wouldn't hear every thought because there would be no you
why is it so hard to understand the part about individuality being disposed of.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 10:22

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Harime Nui: Apr 15, 2008; The New Insincerity

I don't want to live, in a world without anime

# ? Oct 12, 2014 10:27

Ahundredbux: Oct 25, 2007; The right to bear arms

thats the beauty of removing anime
it also gets rid of althel anime fans

# ? Oct 12, 2014 10:29

plain blue jacket: Jan 13, 2014; IT DOESN'T STOP
IT NEVER STOPS

273423-X posted:

Why are hiveminds called hiveminds? Bees don't work that way. They communicate by pheromones and dancing, not psychic powers

Like gays then?

# ? Oct 12, 2014 10:51

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

Fucker posted:

would you do it? everyone would know everyone elses knowledge, thought processes, past experiences, desires, everything they have ever thought and are thinking.

no because then I would have to share thoughts with you involuntarily

# ? Oct 12, 2014 12:11

Al Borland: Oct 29, 2006; by XyloJW

isn't a hivemind generally controlled by something too?

# ? Oct 12, 2014 12:13

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Al Borland posted:

isn't a hivemind generally controlled by something too?

Depends on which kind of stupid science-fiction you're reading. Some are basically run by consensus.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 12:25

Al Borland: Oct 29, 2006; by XyloJW

Cardiovorax posted:

Depends on which kind of stupid science-fiction you're reading. Some are basically run by consensus.

Sounds gay and bad. Not the good gay either the bad gay.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 12:27

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Al Borland posted:

Sounds gay and bad. Not the good gay either the bad gay.

It's more interesting than it sounds. The idea is that you get a composite of everybody that is included in the collective mind. It will take everything into account, because everybody's opinions are its own. It'll then behave based on that.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 12:30

Al Borland: Oct 29, 2006; by XyloJW

Cardiovorax posted:

It's more interesting than it sounds. The idea is that you get a composite of everybody that is included in the collective mind. It will take everything into account, because everybody's opinions are its own. It'll then behave based on that.

What happens when you introduce autism to it?

# ? Oct 12, 2014 12:52

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

Al Borland posted:

What happens when you introduce autism to it?

implosion

# ? Oct 12, 2014 12:54

Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Al Borland posted:

What happens when you introduce autism to it?

Probably nothing. It's just a fantasy, after all, and the kind of scifi that writes about that sort of thing is more interested in how it could succeed than in how it could fail.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 12:54

Al Borland: Oct 29, 2006; by XyloJW

Cardiovorax posted:

Probably nothing. It's just a fantasy, after all, and the kind of scifi that writes about that sort of thing is more interested in how it could succeed than in how it could fail.

Sounds like the authors might be autistic. So I could see self insertion in there. A lot of obsession over Sonic the Hedgehog I'm sure.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 14:02

blarzgh: Apr 14, 2009; SNITCHIN' RANDY; Grimey Drawer

... They ask as they post their thoughts on the internet.

# ? Oct 12, 2014 14:14

Baloogan: Dec 5, 2004; Fun Shoe

already is a hive mind

# ? Oct 12, 2014 14:27

Fucker: Jan 4, 2013

Al Borland posted:

What happens when you introduce autism to it?

maybe autistic ppl stop being autistic because they understand how other ppl think!!

# ? Oct 12, 2014 19:14

max4me: Jun 15, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

so how would we jack off?

# ? Oct 13, 2014 09:43

gnarlyhotep: Sep 30, 2008; by Lowtax; Oven Wrangler

max4me posted:

so how would we jack off?

into our collective mouths

a ouroboros of masturbation

hang on, that's tumblr

# ? Oct 13, 2014 09:50

Mulva: Sep 13, 2011; It's about time for my once per decade ban for being a consistently terrible poster.

If everyone was in a hivemind you'd finally know definitively that nobody wants to gently caress you, and I think that'd be funny enough to make it worth it.

# ? Oct 13, 2014 10:00

taco season: Oct 10, 2014; College Slice

all the thoughts would be mentally masturbating each other forever like an orgy that never ends..

wait do we still have bodies or are we just coexisting in a disembodied puddle of good ideas

# ? Oct 13, 2014 10:30

Ignatius M. Meen: May 26, 2011; Hello yes I heard there was a lovely trainwreck here and...

TACO_HERO posted:

all the thoughts would be mentally masturbating each other forever like an orgy that never ends..

wait do we still have bodies or are we just coexisting in a disembodied puddle of good ideas

i really hope the former, i don't want to be tang

# ? Oct 13, 2014 11:03

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Cardiovorax: Jun 5, 2011; I mean, if you're a successful actress and you go out of the house in a skirt and without underwear, knowing that paparazzi are just waiting for opportunities like this and that it has happened many times before, then there's really nobody you can blame for it but yourself.

Getting to feel the all best orgasms that are happening at any one time would be worth it almost by itself.

# ? Oct 13, 2014 13:57

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