Culture Ship Names

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ROU Delivered with Whispered Gravitas

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ROU (Torturer Class)

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Bayesian Surprise
probably a sister ship of
GSV Who Told You We Were Deterministic?

A basic requirement of a ship or mind name is that its ostensible meaning can be understood.

LCU

GOU

GCU: Farce of a Rushed Announcement, The

GSV

Culture ship names from Hacker News:

GSV An Explosion with Real Gravitas

GOU: War Office, The

GSV (Eccentric)

@cultureshipnames.bsky.social Deviancy of Consciousness, VFP (Eccentric)
Graded Off The Curve, GSV

ROU Optimal Flat Roof Pub Action

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GCU: Connections Not Immediately Obvious

Excerpt from On The Internet by Hubert Dreyfus. Key paragraph reads: “But the vision of a worldwide electronic agora precisely misses the Kierkegaardian point that the people talking to each other in the Athenian agora were members of a direct democracy who were directly affected by the issues they were discussing, and, most importantly, the point of the discussion was for them to take the responsibility and risk of voting publicly on the questions they were debating. For Kierkegaard, a worldwide electronic agora is an oxymoron. The Athenian agora is precisely the opposite of the public sphere, where anonymous electronic kibitzers from all over the world, who risk nothing, come together to announce and defend their opinions. As an extension to the deracinated public sphere, the electronic agora is a grave danger to real political community. Kierkegaard enables us to see that the problem is not that Rheingold's 'electronic agora' is too utopian; it is not an agora at all, but a nowhere place for anonymous nowhere people. As such, it is dangerously distopian.”

I really think Hubert Dreyfus nailed this in On The Internet (2002) and I’ll keep posting this page until everyone has seen it. Key para in alt text.

No, but ‘Glorious Harbinger of Eternal Imperial Dawn’ is an Affronter vessel if ever there was one.

GSV (Eccentric)

GOU

Thank you .. but not quite.
We’re not them, but when we couldn’t find the original, or mirror them, we took matters into our own hands. 😎

Not As Infinite As I Imagined, (d)GOU; Superlifter.

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GCU

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GOU: Iron Age War Trumpet

'GSV I Cannot Sanction Your Buffoonery' is surely the greatest @cultureshipnames.bsky.social that never was. I think about this sometimes.

Culture Ship Names: ROU Tidings of Comfort and Joy

An old one but a good one.

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LSV (eccentric): State Approved Textbook Chapters.

GSV: JEEZ SO MANY CAVEATS
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(D) GOU: Are You Feeling Christmassy Yet?

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GSV: Commodified Spirituality

Sounds more like an Afronter vessel.

GCU