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Saede Riordan
Alexylva Paradox
#1 - 2012-12-27 00:28:05 UTC
"Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually."
- Hilen Tukoss. Program Director, Otosela Neuropsychology Center.

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
-Unattributed

Experimentation is the cornerstone of science. Theories can and must be tested to see if they hold water if the theory is to mean anything. This shows that, at its core, science directs us to put up or shut up. This is reflected in the very fabric of nature itself by evolution. Complexity arising out of what is effectively trial and error, arising out of the universe itself.

Reality doesn't care about morals, politics or justification. The objective truth cannot be argued away - a hypothesis is correct or it is incorrect with no concern for our equivocation. Scientists have embraced this and aggressively put their own theories to the test, not to prove themselves right, but to prove themselves wrong. This is the most basic application of experimentation. Whenever an experiment unearths new data into a system, the theory must change to take it into account or be destroyed.

Humanity is nothing if not one grand experiment, run by nature no longer but instead by ourselves. We took control of our own fate when we invented the crutch and stopped leaving our weak to the predators of the ancient worlds we originated on.

The human political, economic and sociological experiment has reached a critical point though. The tests have been run, the data is in. The results? War. Famine. Disease. Poverty. Death. Despite being able to reach across stars we still cling to these ancient failings. We have tried capitalism, we have tried communism, we have tried every system in between to try to stem this tide of misery, each time failing. We still have war. We still have disease. We still have poverty. We still have death. And we still visit all these failings upon out children. It is clear that our current hyothesis is flawed. Humanity will not solve its problems with the same kind of thinking that created them. It is time to try something new.

The Alexylva Paradox holds the above to be evident. In our labs we will test the theories that will cut for humanity a bright new future. With our ships we will cut the old from new and good from evil. From our stations we will build a brighter tomorrow for all of the human race. Transhumanism shows us the way forward out of the wilderness and into the future.

The time for change is here. We have the tools, we have the resources - it is up to us few capsuleers already elevated above the sickness of our species to raise up the rest of humanity. We who wield the power to shatter planets and obliterate a billion lives with a mental twitch have no other options then to embrace our true destiny and unlock the promise of the night sky. We must step forward into a brilliant light of reason and progress, or become the instruments of our own destruction.

Saede Riordan
CEO, Alexlyva Paradox
27th December, YC 114

Fear and Loathing in Internet Spaceships
Sakura Nihil
Faded Light
#2 - 2012-12-27 06:03:04 UTC
I see a vague post with a lot of words, yet very little content.

Glory

Faded Light is recruiting
Streya Jormagdnir
Alexylva Paradox
#3 - 2012-12-27 06:46:06 UTC
I see criticism, but no depth, direction or warrant. I mean, what did you expect? She explained beliefs and ideologies. If you want a groundwork plan for how things will specifically play out, that's not this thread or the intention of this thread.

I am also a human, straggling between the present world... and our future. I am a regulator, a coordinator, one who is meant to guide the way.

Destination Unreachable: the worst Wspace blog ever
Salena Ashera
#4 - 2012-12-27 08:58:19 UTC  |  Edited by: Salena Ashera
Saede Riordan wrote:
"Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually."
- Hilen Tukoss. Program Director, Otosela Neuropsychology Center.

"There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
-Unattributed

Experimentation is the cornerstone of science. Theories can and must be tested to see if they hold water if the theory is to mean anything. This shows that, at its core, science directs us to put up or shut up. This is reflected in the very fabric of nature itself by evolution. Complexity arising out of what is effectively trial and error, arising out of the universe itself.

Reality doesn't care about morals, politics or justification. The objective truth cannot be argued away - a hypothesis is correct or it is incorrect with no concern for our equivocation. Scientists have embraced this and aggressively put their own theories to the test, not to prove themselves right, but to prove themselves wrong. This is the most basic application of experimentation. Whenever an experiment unearths new data into a system, the theory must change to take it into account or be destroyed.

Humanity is nothing if not one grand experiment, run by nature no longer but instead by ourselves. We took control of our own fate when we invented the crutch and stopped leaving our weak to the predators of the ancient worlds we originated on.

The human political, economic and sociological experiment has reached a critical point though. The tests have been run, the data is in. The results? War. Famine. Disease. Poverty. Death. Despite being able to reach across stars we still cling to these ancient failings. We have tried capitalism, we have tried communism, we have tried every system in between to try to stem this tide of misery, each time failing. We still have war. We still have disease. We still have poverty. We still have death. And we still visit all these failings upon out children. It is clear that our current hypothesis is flawed. Humanity will not solve its problems with the same kind of thinking that created them. It is time to try something new.

The Alexylva Paradox holds the above to be evident. In our labs we will test the theories that will cut for humanity a bright new future. With our ships we will cut the old from new and good from evil. From our stations we will build a brighter tomorrow for all of the human race. Transhumanism shows us the way forward out of the wilderness and into the future.

The time for change is here. We have the tools, we have the resources - it is up to us few capsuleers already elevated above the sickness of our species to raise up the rest of humanity. We who wield the power to shatter planets and obliterate a billion lives with a mental twitch have no other options then to embrace our true destiny and unlock the promise of the night sky. We must step forward into a brilliant light of reason, vivisection's of innocents and progress, or become the instruments of our own destruction.

Saede Riordan
CEO, Alexlyva Paradox
27th December, YC 114


How exactly do you test human social and political theory's of a scale like our galaxy? Why are you different from every other group that says that change has come and we will be it's instigators? Why should I acknowledge your organisation as the a good place for this to happen in?

Salena Ashera; Shandian Lu clan Mystic.
Lyn Farel
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#5 - 2012-12-27 14:39:06 UTC
Salena Ashera wrote:
Why should I listen to the moral ideas of a woman well known as having murdered tourists so that they can be found by a humanitarian?


As much as your points might be valid concerns, that one was a gratuitous informal fallacy.
Ston Momaki
Disciples of Ston
#6 - 2012-12-27 15:02:42 UTC
Ms. Riordan,

Persist in doing good and in due time a new reputation will be formed. A questionable past always creates a dissonance with self-reformation, but do not let that deter you from seeking the good of all. While science possesses no conscience, you the scientist do. Be ruthless in your scientific method, but be compassionate, kind, ethical in your humanity and in all applications of what you learn. Never let the science overcome love for humanity but let love for humanity form the ethics and application of your science.

The Disciples of Ston bid you peace
Salena Ashera
#7 - 2012-12-27 16:14:57 UTC
Lyn Farel wrote:
Salena Ashera wrote:
Why should I listen to the moral ideas of a woman well known as having murdered tourists so that they can be found by a humanitarian?


As much as your points might be valid concerns, that one was a gratuitous informal fallacy.


I'm sorry I'm not familliar with formal arguing, it's been removed from my reply.

Salena Ashera; Shandian Lu clan Mystic.
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#8 - 2012-12-27 16:20:25 UTC
Salena Ashera wrote:
Lyn Farel wrote:
Salena Ashera wrote:
Why should I listen to the moral ideas of a woman well known as having murdered tourists so that they can be found by a humanitarian?


As much as your points might be valid concerns, that one was a gratuitous informal fallacy.


I'm sorry I'm not familliar with formal arguing, it's been removed from my reply.


To be clear, the fallacy in this case was simply a logical one. Simply because someone has been wrong in the past does not mean that they are wrong in a particular instance.
Salena Ashera
#9 - 2012-12-27 16:23:09 UTC
Thank you Tiberious, I'd not been aware that it strictly related to anything outside of hard sciences but thank you for the clarification.

Salena Ashera; Shandian Lu clan Mystic.
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#10 - 2012-12-27 16:41:32 UTC  |  Edited by: Katrina Oniseki
At first I wasn't sure what the point of this thread was.

Then I realized it's just another public manifesto, one which has merely reiterated a viewpoint long since spoken by greater capsule pilots than Riordan. These people were cutting their teeth in capitals out in nullsec years ago. They've fought and won wars, tournaments, achieved media notoriety, scientific successes, and more - all before Riordan even left pilot school.

I've yet to see a reason to think Riordan can do any better.

Katrina Oniseki
Jev North
Doomheim
#11 - 2012-12-27 17:00:14 UTC
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
..long since spoken by greater capsule pilots than Riordan. These people were cutting their teeth in capitals out in nullsec years ago. They've fought and won wars, tournaments, achieved media notoriety, scientific successes, and more..

Were these people you -- or are you merely throwing stones from a house that, if not made of glass, at least has several large windows in it?

Even though our love is cruel; even though our stars are crossed.
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#12 - 2012-12-27 17:11:06 UTC
Jev North wrote:
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
..long since spoken by greater capsule pilots than Riordan. These people were cutting their teeth in capitals out in nullsec years ago. They've fought and won wars, tournaments, achieved media notoriety, scientific successes, and more..

Were these people you -- or are you merely throwing stones from a house that, if not made of glass, at least has several large windows in it?


No, they are not me. In fact, they had achieved these goals before I had graduated flight school as well. If you consider my point to be throwing stones, you are welcome to that opinion. It does not change the facts.

I'd remind you that I merely pursue business. I don't post threads exalting myself as the future of humanity.

The same goes for I-RED.

Katrina Oniseki
Lyn Farel
Societas Imperialis Sceptri Coronaeque
Khimi Harar
#13 - 2012-12-27 17:53:36 UTC
Who were they ?
Saede Riordan
Alexylva Paradox
#14 - 2012-12-27 19:08:11 UTC
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
I'd remind you that I merely pursue business. I don't post threads exalting myself as the future of humanity.


Neither do I. I'm no Kuvakei, I'm not even a Jade Constantine. I don't claim to have all the answers, or that the answers I do have are the right ones. The goals of the Alexylva Paradox are not to apply some magical fix to humanity's woes, because such a magical fix likely does not exist. Our goals are to fight where we can to ease the overall misfortune of humanity with the admittedly limited tools at our disposal, while actively searching for a better solution. We are not some dogmatic factionalist group with an ideology laid down in stone by our parent culture. We are scientists and freethinkers, and will adapt our operations to best suit the changing state of humanity. If information comes in that causes our priorities to change, then we will do so. Being able to change ones' perspective is a hallmark of a healthy mind, and I'd like to think my pilots and I can do so.

As for 'merely pursing business' - congratulations. You are what is destroying the human race. You are a capsuleer, with your immortality and your political and military and socio-economic power, yet you focus your attention on your wallet and the well-being of your own small ingroup. You are one of the few people in the cluster who actually might be able to make a difference, and yet you squander your gifts on petty personal gains. I might not be as experienced a pilot as you, or as skilled a manipulator of currency or resources, but I am actually willing to try to make a real difference in the world, instead of merely perpetuating the current self destructive paradigm.

Ston Momaki wrote:
Ms. Riordan,

Persist in doing good and in due time a new reputation will be formed. A questionable past always creates a dissonance with self-reformation, but do not let that deter you from seeking the good of all. While science possesses no conscience, you the scientist do. Be ruthless in your scientific method, but be compassionate, kind, ethical in your humanity and in all applications of what you learn. Never let the science overcome love for humanity but let love for humanity form the ethics and application of your science.


Thank you. Wise words to keep in mind.

Fear and Loathing in Internet Spaceships
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#15 - 2012-12-27 19:18:27 UTC
Saede Riordan wrote:
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
I'd remind you that I merely pursue business. I don't post threads exalting myself as the future of humanity.


Neither do I. I'm no Kuvakei, I'm not even a Jade Constantine. I don't claim to have all the answers, or that the answers I do have are the right ones. The goals of the Alexylva Paradox are not to apply some magical fix to humanity's woes, because such a magical fix likely does not exist. Our goals are to fight where we can to ease the overall misfortune of humanity with the admittedly limited tools at our disposal, while actively searching for a better solution. We are not some dogmatic factionalist group with an ideology laid down in stone by our parent culture. We are scientists and freethinkers, and will adapt our operations to best suit the changing state of humanity. If information comes in that causes our priorities to change, then we will do so. Being able to change ones' perspective is a hallmark of a healthy mind, and I'd like to think my pilots and I can do so.


Well then, I retract my criticisms and wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. Do be careful.

Quote:

As for 'merely pursing business' - congratulations. You are what is destroying the human race. You are a capsuleer, with your immortality and your political and military and socio-economic power, yet you focus your attention on your wallet and the well-being of your own small ingroup. You are one of the few people in the cluster who actually might be able to make a difference, and yet you squander your gifts on petty personal gains. I might not be as experienced a pilot as you, or as skilled a manipulator of currency or resources, but I am actually willing to try to make a real difference in the world, instead of merely perpetuating the current self destructive paradigm.


I invite you to look deeper into the operations of my business ventures with Oniseki Holdings. I am making a difference to tens of thousands of people. Some bumps in the road, not a particularly massive operation, but it has improved the lives of many. Can you say the same yet?

Katrina Oniseki
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#16 - 2012-12-27 19:27:51 UTC
Well, good luck to you Saede. I have a firm rule of never pushing people away from utopian visions, until they start to conflict existentially with my own, and that of my brothers and sisters and others.

Nothing in your post makes me think that you are going to do this.

We will be watching.
Saede Riordan
Alexylva Paradox
#17 - 2012-12-27 19:41:33 UTC
Katrina Oniseki wrote:

I invite you to look deeper into the operations of my business ventures with Oniseki Holdings. I am making a difference to tens of thousands of people. Some bumps in the road, not a particularly massive operation, but it has improved the lives of many. Can you say the same yet?


Having done so, I retract my own statement about the nature of your actions, and apologize for jumping to conclusions about them. And you are correct in that you likely have been able to help many more people then I have yet been able to. Thank you for your good wishes.

Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Well, good luck to you Saede. I have a firm rule of never pushing people away from utopian visions, until they start to conflict existentially with my own, and that of my brothers and sisters and others.

Nothing in your post makes me think that you are going to do this.

We will be watching.


And thank you as well Tiberious, and no, we don't have any plans at this time to actively combat Sansha's Nation. While I have respect for the ideals of Nation, I don't believe their methods are capable of achieving any sort of long term positive outcome. However, Nation is not seen as a threat to our own goals at this time, and we see no reason to provoke any animosity with them.

And of course, I will be watching you watch me watch me.

Fear and Loathing in Internet Spaceships
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#18 - 2012-12-27 19:47:41 UTC
Saede Riordan wrote:

And of course, I will be watching you watch me watch me.



Note that I will be watching you watch him watch you.

Katrina Oniseki
Tiberious Thessalonia
True Slave Foundations
#19 - 2012-12-27 19:52:42 UTC
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
Saede Riordan wrote:

And of course, I will be watching you watch me watch me.



Note that I will be watching you watch him watch you.


We will be watching you watch her watch me watch her.

Hopefully we can stop this before we end up in the land of infinite recursion.
Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#20 - 2012-12-27 19:55:18 UTC
Tiberious Thessalonia wrote:
Katrina Oniseki wrote:
Saede Riordan wrote:

And of course, I will be watching you watch me watch me.



Note that I will be watching you watch him watch you.


We will be watching you watch her watch me watch her.

Hopefully we can stop this before we end up in the land of infinite recursion.


How could you watch me watch her watch you watching her, when you're watching her and she's watching you watch her? More importantly, who watches The Watchmen?

Katrina Oniseki
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