Silvermoon Meeting
From Order of Cosmic Engineers
The Silvermoon Meeting was a great event, with the formal launch of the Order of Cosmic Engineers and the Cosmic Engineers Guild in World of Warcraft, and the first public reading of the Prospectus of the Order. The Silvermoon Meeting also featured news and announcements about the Science Guild: new leadership, a dedicated website and a new direction as a a "guild of guilds" for scientists, MMOG researchers, and science-loving inhabitants of any game world.
Some pictures and excerpts from the chatlog follow, and here is the full chatlog of the Silvermon Meeting. The characters below: Catullus and Futura are both avatars of William Sims Bainbridge, and Eschatoon is an avatar of Giulio Prisco. Max More was present as Dedthang.
Catullus says: Welcome now, ambassadors of the Cosmic Engineers! This new ogzanization is an international, interworld movement already established in Second Life as well as World of Warcraft.
Catullus says: You can learn more about the Cosmic Engineers at cosmeng.org or at my wiki, convergentsystems.pbwiki.com
Catullus says: The Cosmic Engineers plan many practical projects intended to move humanity forward toward the stars, but for now they wish to communicate their general vision. Ambassador Futura, please share with us your prospectus...
Futura says: Shape Your Universe! The Order of Cosmic Engineers warmly invites you to join its cosmic quest.
Futura says: We joyfully set out to permeate our universe with benign intelligence, building and spreading it from inner space to outer space and beyond.
Futura says: The milestone grails of our joyful cosmic quest sequentially comprise:
Futura says: * evolve a strong global community of responsible, dynamically optimistic, cosmic engineers;
Futura says: * responsibly develop and apply technologies to enhance our minds and bodies suited to the long cosmic road ahead;
Futura says: * engineer a cosmic-scale technology roadmap for the exponential ingression of intelligence into inanimate matter;
Futura says: * make inner space come alive with intelligence by engineering intelligence computation at the (sub-)atomic level;
Futura says: * engineer, spur and guide the responsible geometric intelligence expansion from inner space to human scale to outer space scale;
Futura says: * intimately join, cross-pollinate and cross-leverage our mental resources into a meta-mind society;
Futura says: * deeply optimize our material universe for cosmos-wide intelligence computation;
Futura says: * answer the ultimate questions of the origin, nature, purpose and destiny of reality;
Futura says: * tune universe-creation parameters so as to further improve the maximization of the computational ability of a universe;
Futura says: * engineer a suitable black hole to engender a baby universe by means of a tuned black hole transition;
Futura says: * beget a new universe anew;
Futura says: * behold your creation;
Futura says: * THINK; * BE
Futura says: And now my colleague Eschatoon will have a few words...
Eschatoon says: Thanks Futura and Catullus
Eschatoon says: I did not think you even knew each other
Eschatoon says: I will improvise, I hacve not learned yet the macro thing
Eschatoon says: However
Eschatoon says: Please take a look at our websites cosmeng,org and convergent system
Eschatoon says: This is a "unconventional" transhumanist group
Eschatoon says: And I wish to welcome Max More, the founder of modern transhumanism
Eschatoon says: He is Dedthang, but for a tech problem he cannot talk
Eschatoon says: He is listening though
Eschatoon says: I hope you guys will consider joining our Guild and your group
Eschatoon says: We are going to have a lot of fun, and re-engineer physical reality too
Eschatoon says: Thank you very much
Catullus says: Thank you, Futura & Eschatoon. While the Science guild has no formal connection with the Cosmic Engineers, I recognize in you a kindred group, giving virtual worlds a new level of significance for the so-called "real world."
See Bainridge's notes for the Silvermoon Meeting.
Note -most pictures on this wiki are on Eschatoon's Flickr photostream in higher size.
