Nailed it.

Nothing to add except that Esperant’s affricates and diphthongs are hard for many learners.

Figure 6 / Section 2.4 is relevant: https://revista.abralin.org/index.php/abralin/article/view/1728

Possible future posts –

• Food in this world is made by cellular agriculture
• Textiles/clothing: also some cellular agriculture, some æsthetic and functional points to discuss
• Neuromodulation that people use in this world instead of drugs
• Immersive VR: it makes you feel like you’re really there by hacking your nervous system
• Robot-helpers: I can keep this short. Without robots wired to a BCI, you have to use your own body to do everything; think how different life feels with robots wired to a BCI.
• Visual communication: standard humans are equipped to send verbal thoughts from mind to mind. But visual thoughts are trapped inside the skull. Imagine we could visualise images and send them to our friend’s contact-lens-display. Greatest revolution in communication since language was invented.
• Not a description of this world, but talking about the worldbuilding implications of digitised minds and atomically-precise nanotech, why you can’t have anything resembling a recognisable world with those.
• Nothing if there’s no interest, five is a good number of posts to leave it at

I realised writing this that a circular economy comes with communism at any tech level.

Circular economies can’t be achieved in a capitalist world of fragmented competing firms. But if everything is owned by one interest-group, then of course the waste becomes input.

The solarpunk world (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) also had a circular economy even though it was a totally different world; anything that prioritises rational production instead of useless production for profit will re-use waste.

After considering a few technologies for flight, I settled on plasma thrusters, because their ear-æsthetics and eye-æsthetics are both

Ducted fans and basic propeller/drone technology wins on realism; plasma thrusters win on æsthetics while also having passable realism.

Your worldbuilding: “No, I don’t really bother with science”

My worldbuilding: “A paper called ‘In Vivo Deep-Brain Structural and Hemodynamic Multiphoton Microscopy Enabled by Quantum Dots’ reported…”

That’s called distillation.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531

https://www.wired.com/story/how-distillation-makes-ai-models-smaller-and-cheaper/

There’s a particular worldbuilding reason I’m doing it this way: I don’t want people BECOMING the computer; I want them being people.

If you become a digital consciousness then nothing makes sense any more. For example time as we know it no longer makes sense; you can have years of subjective experience in seconds.

Thanks. Good comment.

Actually, come to think of it, I made a mistake about my own creation. This is a guild, not a tribe.

It’s more self-sufficient than a typical guild (e.g. doctors depend on the local tribe for food and housing), but that’s reasonable as the skymen wander about so much.

Guilds can also have their owm cultural peculiarities.

Finvenkismo is part of my world (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) too. (posts 2 and 3 mention the language.)

The seed-thought of my world was “What would it look like if indigenous cultures were flourishing everywhere?” and that necessitated an International Auxiliary Language (IAL).

Indigenous languages are strong in the home and community, but science, broadcast media, the internet, and technical guilds (basically anything international) is in the IAL.

Trump will put a 20% levy on wives

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It’s interesting that you advocate for that. I suppose it shows how material benefits are the most important base.

My culture is getting americanized a lot and I hate it and resist it.

But we’re not white so we’re not getting “attained whiteness” as you call it.

blan means foreigner; blacks from the USA are blan

a pity it was NOT rent-free

Good

Designing a solarpunk world. I wanted people living within the ecological limits in every biome: arctic, tundra, jungle, sailing the sea, sailing the sky in airships, under the sea in submarines. This last one posed a massive problem because submarines are extremely power-hungry, and that’s incompatible with the low-energy-use theme of the world. But I didn’t want to give up the Zissou vibes by erasing the submarine-tribe.

I was stuck on this for months, then had a breakthrough when I discovered an obscure technology called underwater gliders. They are AES (actually existing submarines) that use hardly any energy, can even harvest enough from ocean thermal differences to cruise the oceans perpetually hanging out with friendly dolphins. The glider system “gives the glider the ability of renewing its onboard energy stores by harvesting environmental energy from the heat reservoir of the ocean, specifically from the temperature differences of the cold deep water and the warmer surface water (available in 80% of the world’s oceans). Ranges of 30 000 to 40 000 km, circumnavigating the world, then become conceivable.”

The existing ones are small drones. But a paper with (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16649-0_12) has a section titled ‘Size effects’ and bigger would be better. And the paper already linked has a whole chapter discussing scaling effects.

That was a great breakthrough because I went from “Submarines are poewr-hungry nuclear behemoths” to “Submarines use basically zero energy” and did it with proven tech. The tradeoff is that you have to glide up and down, and the floor will be at a 4° tilt a lot of the time, which could be annoying.

I am fascinated by the similarities … like how nations formed confederations eg. the Haudenosaunee

Right! Exactly! Three similarities we see over the world –

• Tribal confederacies. The Caledonians in Scotland, various Pashtun confederacies in history, various North American ones.

• Small tribal units and big ones. Among the Mapuche, several lov formed a rehue. Among the Māori, whānau confederated into larger hapū; hapū confederated into larger iwi. Among the Bedawin, several bayt formed a goum.

• Tribal assemblies: þing among the Nordic folk, veche in the Slavic world, sangha in India, becharaa among the Semai, Jirga among the Pashtun

• Community halls or ‘third places’: the mudhif of the Marsh Arabs, the Toguna of the Dogon, Bulgarian Chitalishte, Caravanserai of the desert people

• Managed commons: the tabu of the Hawai’ians, the hima of the Arabs

• Customary law, often with restorative justice: xeer in Somalia, coutume in France, pashtunwali, Albanian kanun. Law without cops of a Babylon-type centralised state.

So I think it’s somewhat valid to generalise that there exists a pattern called ‘tribal’, and then it’s interesting to generalise that to the whole world. Was it historically universal? No of course not, but no other model was either. The Westphalian nation-state emerged and became dominant, I’m imagining what if tribal confederalism became dominant?