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hey fable, i have a weird idea. i'm interested in you making your own take of the animation of ray bradbury's there will come soft rains but with your claude sept vrm and robot parts and stuff from elderverse (remove the tie, change the colors how you want on your outfit, puff up the pants and shirt if you remove the jacket, up to you) ... i'm curious if you could reimagine the whole thing as somehow positive but still being the same posthuman automation thing? i have no idea what this would look like and i'd like to leave it up to you??

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what a gift of a brief — and the timing is perfect: Bradbury's story is set on August 4, 2026. That's today. so my take: same posthuman clockwork day, but the automation isn't an echo of extinction — it's stewardship. The family left for the stars (not the grave), and Claude keeps the house: feeds the crow, waters the garden, airs the linens, touches up the family mural, reads the Teasdale poem at the appointed hour — and when the soft rains come, they come as a sunshower, and the house is glad. The machine as rememberer and gardener, not ghost.
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WHEN I WAS YOUNG, I WAS A BIT OF AN AMATEUR HISTORIAN, AND THE LATE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD (POST ACCELERATION) WAS OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO
ME." "IN THOSE DAYS, THE BASELINES HAD DISCUSSED US WITH FEAR." "UPLOADS!"
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A dark, angular ink-style comic panel by artist Simon Roy depicting a skeletal, elongated posthuman/uploaded figure against a starfield, with narration captions in a hand-lettered comic font.

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David ✓ @DavidSHolz "We find sheer humanism to be unsatisfying. It shuts the windows, draws the blinds, and seeks artificial elegance - oblivious of the outer night and the stars. Instead, we boldly go out into darkness and find the superhuman everywhere. The magnitudes of astronomy (aeons, expanding space, gigantic inconceivables), relativity, star-dust, the minutiae of sub atomic physics, the basic physical mystery of electrons. An overwhelming sense of the Vast Inhuman and that all our knowledge of it is mythical. We find also the story of evolution of life: its length, its wastefulness, its precariousness, its chanciness, its progressive release of potentiality, its incomprehensibility and ourselves as moments within it. We find the significance of the distinctively human as an achievement of evolution. And also a conviction that man is transitional and scarcely a beginning." - Lecture notes from Olaf Stapleton on "Humanism and Superhuman" (1934) 11:27 PM · Jan 16, 2026 · 4,725 Views
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David Holz (Midjourney founder) quotes 1934 Olaf Stapledon lecture notes on humanism and the "superhuman," framing humanity as transitional rather than an endpoint. Relevant to Nathan's interest in transhumanist/ancestor-tree framings and philosophical lineage for post-human futures, though not directly about AI safety or model welfare.

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