Okay so I'm doing research on the factions and.
Okay so I'm doing research on the factions and... What is the difference it seems now we are both fighting for the same thing! It was once Human Resistance against Alien Enlightened but now... Please, tell me all the information on the factions goals you can. I'm desperate for any information.
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ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that the way Niantic presents the story, the RES are currently against the Shapers, in favor of development of AI (including AI-human hybridization -- cognitive enhancement, or "cyborg" technologies), pursuing use of N'Zeer tech in a way that may release the N'Zeer from some kind of exile that was engineered by the Shapers and their 13-Magnus proxies. The ENL are opposed to development of AI tools, opposed to touching any tech associated with the N'Zeer, in favor of increasing human exposure to Shaper influence through the portal network (because they believe that the Shapers are "our friends", who will help lead us to a greater understanding of and union with The Ultimate).
ReplyDeleteIn fact, I think most agents on both sides are actually Humanist, in the best sense of the word. They believe in self-determination for all people, including the possibility of embracing technology to improve the human condition.
Auros Harman has summarized the situation excellently, and I'm on the other faction. Nicely equitable.
ReplyDeleteAuros Harman Very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI've basically seen the Shapers vs N'zeer debate as simply creativity, beauty and emotion(Shapers) vs intelligence and logic, using the power of human knowledge to help change the world(N'zeer.)
What do you think about that?
I more or less agree with that -- that the two sides are presented as emphasizing kind of "right-brain" vs "left-brain" virtues. (Though of course that kind of reductive analysis of what the right and left brain do is pretty misleading.)
ReplyDeleteBut again, the vast majority of agents I meet, from both sides, seem to believe that progress depends on employing and valuing both kinds of thinking. :-)
Have no clue they are what? (I am a RES agent, BTW. And in real life, actually, a serious proponent of cognitive enhancement. I can't wait to have a wearable computer with a trans-cranial interface that can provide heads-up info like labeling faces with their names, doing math for me at the command of a thought, and so on.)
ReplyDeletethis is from the new site - http://investigate.ingress.com/history-of-the-investigation/ "The Niantic Investigation: Three Years in Broad Strokes
ReplyDeleteYear One:
THE NIANTIC CONSPIRACY
Thanks to the information leaked via nianticproject.com, we learned that the NIA was at the heart of a conspiracy to research, exploit and potentially weaponize Exotic Matter. Their experiments went too far, and a destabilized Powercube caused a massive XM event at the CERN lab. Devra Bogdanovich and Roland Jarvis escaped from the lab during the chaos. The event would come to be known as Epiphany Night.
In the lead-up to this event, two camps had emerged: the Resistance, who saw XM as a threat that needed to be stopped from spreading further, and the Enlightened, who saw XM as a gift and an evolutionary stepping stone for mankind. The conflict between these two ideologies contributed to the Niantic Project spinning out of control, ultimately resulting in the death of Roland Jarvis, the shuttering of the Project, and the leak of the Ingress Scanner app to the public.