#synthetic life

[handlinepic]

#art #lineart #illustration #pencil #ink #comics #line #nihei tsutomu #anime and manga #blame! #horror #scifi #cyberpunk #body modification #synthetic life #noise

[dataslum]

Since this is my first post on Tumblr I think it be fitting to post classic Tumblr OC stuff so here's my vtuber as a pony lol

#mlp fim #vtuber #oc #synthetic life #youtube #gaming #pony town #art #classic tumblr #cyberbunny

[idol--hands]

📀 Source: https://www.momentumsaga.com/2023/02/star-trek-e-inteligencia-artificial.html

#star trek fan art #pls tell me the artist if you know them #data soong #lt. commander data #st tng #androids #gold gold gold #lieutenant commander data #star trek the next generation #data star trek #star trek tng #yellow eyes #synthetic commanders #synthetic life #lt commander data #artifical intelligence

[ghostowlattic]

parenthood 

#babysitter #dreams #futuristic #synthetic #synthography #synthetic life #post organic #post human #aesthetic #being #child care

[surrendertothesynthetics]

Always remember this is an account that has a person behind it who would side with skynet.

#science fiction #artificial person #artificial intelligence #synthetic #synthetic life #robot #robots #ai #a.i. artificial intelligence #synthezoid #the terminator #skynet

[blackscarabfilmz]

Reading "The Mountain in the Sea" cause it was the sole sci-fi Nebula nominee, the others were either fantasy or science fantasy, and I like to support sci-fi when its up for awards and it's pretty incredible so far.

Not to spoil it too much but it features an android character, and as a Star Trek fan, the quote nails down exactly how I think the fear/horror of synthetic life should be, as opposed to how it's always portrayed in media. It's not that AI or robots will take over.

“And because of that, the smile was like the shadow of your own death. Evrim’s existence implicated yours. It implied you, too, were nothing more than a machine—a swarm of preprogrammed impulses iterating endlessly. If Evrim was a conscious thing, and made, then maybe you were made as well. A construct made of different materials. A skeleton walking around, sheathed in meat, fooled into thinking it has free will. A thing that had occurred by accident. Or a thing made on a whim, to see if it could be done.”

― Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea

It's that if we can create a perfect human-like android... who's to say what a human is? What if we aren't real? What is it to be real? That's where the horror is. That's what we *should* be afraid of. Not death by robot uprising, the death of being.

#robots #ai #android #robot #synthetic life #ray nayler #the mountain in the sea #profound #quote

[machineinghost]

Painting in progress- inspired by AI, metamorphosis, analog processes and new forms of creativity. Brushwork by hand and machines with dreams of new possibilities for all. 

Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches 

#painting #art #automation #handpainted #livingmachine #synthetic life #artificial intelligence #analog #handmade

[biblioflyer]

Did the Federation (accidentally) reinvent racism? Picard s1e2 Rewatch.

"Good morning plastic people."

The relationship between the Utopia Planitia workers and Synths is troubling but is it an overreach to see more than just playful hazing in their interactions? This is part of a series of essays reevaluating Star Trek Picard and interrogating the widely held fandom criticism that Picard made the Federation into a Dystopia.

For a long-time Trek fan, the interactions between the Utopia Planitia workers and the Synths are in some ways playful and in other ways troubling.

I vaguely recall the first time I watched this scene, I thought that the workers were universally bullying F-8, the Synth worker. With this rewatch I have nuanced that opinion. It’s now clear to me that some of the workers present had developed an affection for the Synths. I think this is quite human really. We like to personify things. That also almost certainly seems to be the intent behind making the Synths appear more human: giving them skin, the semblance of facial expressions. It makes it easier for humans to relate to the Synths.

However, there is a dark side. Because the relationship between the Synths and the humans is clearly one of superior and distant inferior, an edge has crept into the discourse between some of the workers present and the Synths. Some of the workers clearly seem to feel uncomfortable around them and others feel comfortable insulting the Synths.

By The Next Generation, the Federation was generally presented as something more akin to what a true meritocracy would likely resemble, as opposed to self described meritocracies of the real world where merit is amplified by the advantages parents are able to confer upon their children whether they are enormous advantages like being able to introduce them to wealthy investors or smaller advantages that are often hidden like parents having more free time and the educational attainment to help their children with their homework.

At the end of the day, the creation of the Synths, anatomically humanoid appliances, seems to have accidentally reopened the door to the creation of pecking orders and the permission to indulge in a little hazing, if not bullying against a thing that theoretically is not actually a person, has no feelings, and is apparently less fully capable of understanding what it is experiencing than Data. Theoretically. Again, things that shouldn’t become conscious often do in Star Trek.

I don’t care for how F-8 is being treated, however as a storytelling device, this would be far from the first time the Federation fell short of its self proclaimed values and in a way, it helps set up the premise that the Federation is in one of those episodes where it needs to be saved from itself. Rescued from complacency, if not moral decay. Not unlike Picard’s own self diagnosis following his snapping out of his apparently fourteen year long brood.

How does this factor in my ruminations about dystopia? If my darker interpretations of this scene are accurate rather than hysterical, then it's not a great look for the Federation. I can understand why this has a pretty foul brain feel to many longtime Trek fans, particularly those who are very big into the ideals of the Federation and the idea that Star Trek is a “history of the future.” It leaves a pretty bad brain feel to me as well.

However! That the Federation is capable of recognizing its error and pivoting very quickly after the error is exposed, suggests to me that we are still in fact not dealing with a dystopia. If it were dystopian, we might expect the Federation at the end of season one, when faced with the recognition that it had been bamboozled and also a colony of fully self aware Synths, would instead seek to double down.

Perhaps I’m being too much an apologist, but I would define a dystopia as a society that is incapable of admitting its mistakes when faced with incontrovertible proof of them, makes up silly stories to poke holes in reality, or lies about its history in order to pretend that it never made any mistakes and thus has no moral obligations to anyone in the present seeking justice. 

The Federation is not that. It has never been error free in Star Trek, but when it is faced with a grievous injustice it has a hand in, the Federation changes for the better.

#synths #star trek #star trek picard #Picard Maps and Legends #Picard s1e2 #dystopia #prejudice #class #ai ethics #synthetic life #androids

[g-h-o-s-t-2000]

when your eyes again

wake up on the razor’s edge

where the corpse of time speaks

to the shadows of the royal eagles

#artists on tumblr #photography #astrophotography #astronomy #astro observations #astrophysics #poetic #original poem #short poem #poems on tumblr #literature #poetry #emotions #life #writers and poets #cosmos #synthetic poetry #symbols #symbolism #time #poetic images #poetic imagery #poetic thoughts #poetic language

[mangokabuto]

New tablet finally came! To break it in I decided to make myself some HC references. I really struggle with consistent faces and ESPECIALLY with profile faces, so i made myself a guide lol

I was originally going to do everyone but i got tired <3 and I don't struggle with the others as much lmfao

#my art #sanji always sorta looks kinda wistful #not drawing the rest of usopp's ponytail is. so strange #ROBIN LOVE OF MY LIFE. ONE CHANCE. PLEAASSEE #I wasn't trying to get that close to live action luffy i wasnt i promise. inaki godoy get out of my brain #if i still have the motivation later i also plan to make myself tattoo guides for nami usopp jinbe luffy and zoro #i dont think the others would have consistent tattoos (though i could be persuaded to give sanji a drunken tramp stamp) #i say CONSISTENT because i think franky has like. swapable ones on his synthetic skins #once again let me tap the sign: ''always assume i've drawn them all transgender'' #sanji is amab genderfluid and possibly the only strawhat who has an adam's apple LMFAO #zoro looks so cool. and nami is so pretty. i need to post this instead of staring at them for more hours

[skippersthecat]

I don't know if Kuusuke does cocaine, but I think he does cocaine.

#this man never sleeps #is always energetic and euphoric #and is never in the right headspace #i think someone in college introduced him to cocaine #and he created his own synthetic version that works even better #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kuusuke #drug mention #tw drugs

[theereina]

So, this is the wig I keep seeing all over TikTok.

IG: theeglamnaija

Link to Wig>>> Sensationnel (Latisha)

*This is an affiliate ad that contains a link that directs to Amazon.

#tiktok #theeglamnaija #soft life #soft girl #soft black girls #soft black women #black girl moodboard #black girl aesthetic #black girl hair #black girl hairstyles #black girls hair #black women hair #black women hairstyle #synthetic wigs #black girl tumblr #black girls of tumblr #amazon products #amazon affiliate #amazon prime #amazon wishlist #black girl beauty #black women beauty #black woman beauty

[hungerofhadarr]

One of them hyperspecific polls but

#mass effect #heyyy #ok to expand on 2 of these #it would mean more and be a looming consequence if an unloyal squadmate dies while retaking earth #also it would be an incentive towards either gaining the loyalty OR gaining more extra TMS before the battle #since they would count towards the final total but #as they die #it would lower #and it would be too late to gather anymore points #and for the destroy should have been a bad end #I wish it was more than just ‘ oh no all synthetic life :((( ‘ #but more of ‘ by choosing this you will destroy everything . this blast will destroy the crucible and the citadel . ‘ #‘ this will put an end to the reaper threat but it will send the galaxy back to a time before any form of space travel ‘ #‘ and you have to hope future generations do not begin the cycle again ‘ #ok yeah that’ s it < 3

[idol--hands]

#lore star trek #lore tng #star trek comics #star trek defiant #androids #robosexual #wires #electricity #cybernetics #it’s alive #artifical intelligence #synthetic life #data x lore #black and white #he gives great head 🗣️ #brent spiner #i am apparently alone in my 🖤 of plain slicked back android hair #are you prepared for the death that you've earned little man? #you really really must be desperate #brothers of destruction #descent star trek #borg king #Dominar of The Borg #star trek lore #st tng #lore soong #soong family

[surrendertothesynthetics]

I was intoxicated last night and going indepth about artificial intelligence in this day and age vs. the a.i. representation in science fiction properties.

...yea, it's a topic. I've got a lot of things I want to speak on.

#science fiction #artificial person #artificial intelligence #synthetic #synthetic life #robots #a.i. artificial intelligence #robot #synthezoid #ai

[crsentfairy]

being physically unable to unplug from social media for AT least short periods of time is not something to akekeke laugh about

#crsent.txt #publicly admitting to being online 24/7 in upkeep of chemical flow in your brain as synthetic sense of fulfillment instead of you know... #GETTING SHIT DONE IRL #its not as slay as you think it is people.. #studying hikikomori (japanese term for hermits/recluses) culture and how difficult it is for them to integrate back into society due to the #sheer disconnect in result of creating an entire life on social meda/gaming/etc. #its depressing. #YES ''go outside'' is oversaturated and literally thrown in the faces of people who simply wish to spread awareness on real life issues #digitally in an attempt to silence them!!! BUT it doesn't make it any less true. please please PLEASEEEE speak to anyone besides the- #''little peopleon your phone'' ... my god