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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The setting has been updated in the past to adhere more closely to real world physics, and that has included some instances of this; unsurprisingly given that the setting has existed online since the late 90s and many core pages date back to the early 00's. One example which hasn't been updated is the way the Known Net (the interstellar equivalent of the internet) is portrayed as a bunch of forums, which have largely been supplanted by social media for most internet users.
** AI terminology involves referencing the TuringTest a lot, and sophont level ai are said to be "turingrade". Of course, in the real world, the TuringTest has mostly been discredited as a test of intelligence since it's just one kind of intelligence.
** AI terminology involves referencing the TuringTest a lot, and sophont level ai are said to be "turingrade". Of course, in the real world, the TuringTest has mostly been discredited as a test of intelligence since it's just one kind of intelligence.
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* ScienceMarchesOn / TechnologyMarchesOn: The setting has been updated in the past to adhere more closely to real world physics, and that has included some instances of this; unsurprisingly given that the setting has existed online since the late 90s and many core pages date back to the early 00's. One example which hasn't been updated is the way the Known Net (the interstellar equivalent of the internet) is portrayed as a bunch of forums, which have largely been supplanted by social media for most internet users.
** Terminology in particular suffers from this, as scientific terminology has changed dramatically in the internet age. AI terminology in particular involvesreferencing revolves around the TuringTest a lot, and sophont level ai are said to be "turingrade". Of course, in the real world, the TuringTest has mostly is a non-trivial challenge but far from a signifier of sentience, and is primarily relevant as a matter of philosophy rather than programming.
** In the wake of the nascent field of gravitational-wave astronomy becoming one of the biggest stories in astronomy in the late 2010s, a number of pages have beendiscredited updated to include it; one of the more notable changes was retconning the root of the Terragen Wormhole Nexus from an unknown location shrouded in mysticism to explicitly labeling it as a test very derived version of intelligence since it's just one kind of intelligence.the Vega system.
** Terminology in particular suffers from this, as scientific terminology has changed dramatically in the internet age. AI terminology in particular involves
** In the wake of the nascent field of gravitational-wave astronomy becoming one of the biggest stories in astronomy in the late 2010s, a number of pages have been
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The setting has been updated in the past to adhere more closely to real world physics, and that has included some instances of this; unsurprisingly given that the setting has existed online since the late 90s and many core pages date back to the early 00's. One example which hasn't been updated is the way the Known Net (the interstellar equivalent of the internet) is portrayed as a bunch of forums, which have largely been supplanted by social media for most internet users.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: The setting has been updated in the past to adhere more closely to real world physics, and that has included some instances of this; unsurprisingly given that the setting has existed online since the late 90s and many core pages date back to the early 00's. One example which hasn't been updated is the way the Known Net (the interstellar equivalent of the internet) is portrayed as a bunch of forums, which have largely been supplanted by social media for most internet users.users.
** AI terminology involves referencing the TuringTest a lot, and sophont level ai are said to be "turingrade". Of course, in the real world, the TuringTest has mostly been discredited as a test of intelligence since it's just one kind of intelligence.
** AI terminology involves referencing the TuringTest a lot, and sophont level ai are said to be "turingrade". Of course, in the real world, the TuringTest has mostly been discredited as a test of intelligence since it's just one kind of intelligence.
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: As different as they are, there is one thing that holds true for nearly all civilizations: expansionist civilizations eventually (on galactic timescales) disappear. While this started as a logic consequence of the real world observation that humanity has yet to observe alien megastructures, it lends an air of mystery and uncertainty as to the continued future of the Terragen Sphere, and acts meta-Singularity, in much the same way that the real world is on the cusp of [[TheSingularity singularities]] the Terragen Sphere has long since shattered.
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: As different as they are, there is one thing that holds true for nearly all civilizations: expansionist civilizations eventually (on galactic timescales) disappear. While this started as a logic consequence of the real world observation that humanity has yet to observe alien megastructures, it lends an air of mystery and uncertainty as to the continued future of the Terragen Sphere, and acts meta-Singularity, in much the same way that the real world is on the cusp of [[TheSingularity singularities]] the Terragen Sphere has long since shattered.shattered.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The setting has been updated in the past to adhere more closely to real world physics, and that has included some instances of this; unsurprisingly given that the setting has existed online since the late 90s and many core pages date back to the early 00's. One example which hasn't been updated is the way the Known Net (the interstellar equivalent of the internet) is portrayed as a bunch of forums, which have largely been supplanted by social media for most internet users.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: The setting has been updated in the past to adhere more closely to real world physics, and that has included some instances of this; unsurprisingly given that the setting has existed online since the late 90s and many core pages date back to the early 00's. One example which hasn't been updated is the way the Known Net (the interstellar equivalent of the internet) is portrayed as a bunch of forums, which have largely been supplanted by social media for most internet users.
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: As different as they are, there is one thing that holds true for nearly all civilizations: expansionist civilizations eventually (on galactic timescales) disappear. While this started as a logic consequence of the real world observation that humanity has yet to observe alien megastructures, it lends an air of mystery and uncertainty as to the continued future of the Terragen Sphere, and acts meta-Singularity, in much the same way that the real world is on the cusp of [[TheSingularity singularities]] the Terragen Sphere has long since shattered.
