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Low background
Low-background steel, also known as pre-war steel and pre-atomic steel, is any steel produced prior to the detonation of the first nuclear bombs in the 1940s and 1950s. Typically sourced from ships (either as part of regular scrapping or shipwrecks) and other steel artifacts of this era, it is often used for modern particle detectors because more modern steel is contaminated with traces of nuclear fallout.
Thought
Concept of something untarnished. Pervasive thing that infiltrates and changes an entire class of objects. Deletion or addition of a classifying feature. A geological, or existence marker.
Purity.
Seen used in context of pollution of language with AI or generative text. Sunsetting text here where written documents are no longer usable for metrics, past a certain point, due to increase of noise from generative text.
Grey goo
Perhaps some overlap with grey goo, where a technology is so pervasive and out of control that it is impossible to exist in the same way as before.
Thought
I imagine myself already existing in this way. What if my life is already plagued with “grey goo”, only it is all I’ve known? Our current inability to access the inner thoughts of another directly, the result of some ancient eons old dislocation. Grey goo in your senses.
I recall thinking of this scenario in a fantasy land. In this land Death, and our lack of communicative access to those who have died wasn’t a “natural/pre-existing/constant” thing, it was a matter of a self imposed magical barrier (a spell) that segmented those dead and those living. Was this spell constructed by those dark creatures that lurk in death to hold them in? Or a barrier to keep those kept out, erected by life mages.
This thin membrane of life is something that I thought of as a kid. How even in your happiest moment, the most keen of a blade can segment you from your future irrevocably. A massive question surrounds each moment of existence.
But I have also spoken to friends who are medics and they say the body is resistant.