{"id":387,"date":"2009-03-23T16:55:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T00:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=387"},"modified":"2009-03-23T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T00:57:17","slug":"ad-astra-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Ad Astra Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in a few years, I&#8217;ll be attending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ad-astra.org\/\">Ad Astra<\/a> this weekend (March 27-29) \u2014 which is being held, as usual, way out in the boons to anyone without their own wheels.\u00a0 Should you be interested in a) attending, and b) learning whether I have anything new to say that I haven&#8217;t already repeated a dozen times right here, I will be at the following places at the following times, grumbling about the following subjects with the following people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday 10:00 PM Salon 241 <strong>Breeding People for Obedience<\/strong>. Derwin Mak, Peter Watts, Derek K\u00fcnsken (MOD), D.K. Savage.\u00a0 What is the feasibility, and what are the ethical implications, of creating people to have traits that aren\u2019t in their own best interest? Who are you when the choice is taken out of your hands? Given what we know of modern neurology, is free will an illusion anyway?<\/li>\n<li>Saturday 01:00 PM Salon 343 <strong>Evolution vs. Optical Effects<\/strong> James Alan Gardner, Peter Watts, Julie E. Czerneda, Derek K\u00fcnsken (MOD). Whether aliens, creatures of fantasy, or horrific monsters, how do you come up with something that fits the world and the story instead of just looking cool? How can you take evolution and ecology into account?<\/li>\n<li>Saturday 03:00 PM Ballr. Centre <strong>What is Real Evil?<\/strong> Peter Watts, Sephera Giron (MOD), R. Scott Bakker, Ken Lillie-Paetz, Nigel Bennett, Stephen Barringer.\u00a0 Sociopaths? Ordinary people \u201cjust doing their job\u201d? A trick of perspective? What kind of evil is scariest: a person, a group, something nameless or faceless, something from a creative work, or something that exists in the world today?<\/li>\n<li>Sunday 11:00 AM Salon 241 <strong>Crowd-Sourcing Creativity<\/strong> Peter Watts, Hayden Trenholm (MOD), David Drake.\u00a0 Some authors use feedback and contributions from blog communities in their writing. How far will this go? Will writing ever become truly interactive, or will the resulting work always be significantly influenced by the author, editor, or manager? Can interactivity be guided by the examples of shared-world setups and MMORPGs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You may notice that my own pet peeves seem to be pretty compatible with the panels they&#8217;ve got me on, so it should be fun.<\/p>\n<p>You may also notice that they don&#8217;t have me down for anything on Saturday evening.\u00a0 I guess I&#8217;ll just have to hang out in the bar during that time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in a few years, I&#8217;ll be attending Ad Astra this weekend (March 27-29) \u2014 which is being held, as usual, way out in the boons to anyone without their own wheels.\u00a0 Should you be interested in a) attending, and b) learning whether I have anything new to say that I haven&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}