Queegle MultiTask and his New Species, Note 1
Queegle MultiTask and his New Species, Note 1 — Queegle did not hurry. Transitioning yet another alien culture did not require a Grok implant. It was easy enough that an unmodified Human could to it. And it held status, even if the benefits beyond Universal Minimum Living were not lavish. He mostly spent his time monitoring banks of pico scale nodes that held the permanent records of the species before Universal Intervention.
He had a high grok score from when he was graded as an infant. (Why did they measure that in Elon units? You could request a TeraElon unit from local stores, but StarShips for InterGalactics hops used that combinatorial size unit which most everyone just called G’s. Those were all “quantum”, but since humans learned that quantum was just gravity everyone called them G’s.)
Interfacing with the Translators was easy. Life did not have to be complicated. Every Human could choose their own interests and tasks. The Universal Training injected and trained into him lasted the lifetime of a natural Human body. These times that was somewhere around 10 Kilo Standard Years. Of course, most Naturals simply opted to have copies made of their Life Archives. A small patch linked them to the Galactic Internet kept the Life Archive for each human or machine intelligence up to date continuously. When accidents happened (almost nothing was unpredictable but infinite reality has new events and combinations, no finite number of humans or entities could every records. Maybe that is why we still had names for “destiny” and “purpose” and “meaning” “random” and “hope”. Leave that to the YottaElon nodes, since it was their job to watch for those things.
Queegle was thinking about this species. The Nodes did most of the Finding Archiving Classification Testing and Scanning (FACTS). But each human or entity was encouraged to explore new view points. Every Standard Week new adjustments were added to Universal Knowledge. No one treated it very seriously, and he could not remember why that was called Nobel. He could take a millisecond and ask his Node, but he did not want to bother. Not being too tied to Nodes is why Humans were valued. Natural Humans accumulated most Nobels, even if it was only enough for a nice weekend vacation. But it held status. It was embedded in the Universal Value Systems that was the core of all entities.
Translating the experiences of new species was sometimes difficult, even to the point of “Not Possible With Present Universal Spare Capacity of all Entities for 1 Standard Year”, which is why it was popular as an Interest. Some Humans and Entities were good at “nearly infinitely many small things”, but most Humans simply liked simple tasks that only took a few hundred Standard Years. This latest New Species only existed at the core mantle boundary of just before fusion sizes. And was only discovered during the initial FACTS recording done when full sensors were physically near a new place. It was possible to scan and model suns and planets, resources and the more obvious Species from Galactic Distances and times. All “Venus type planets” seemed to create new species for a very short period of their lifetimes. Some Humans and Entities liked those Interests. But any Entity could allocated some of their Spare Capacity (SC) for whatever they wanted. As long as Critical Systems (CS) were covered ( and that only took a relatively small part of SC) most lives were varied, purposeful and fulfilling. The old “Lives with Dignity and Purpose” from the Beginning.
Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
