[ExI] The second step towards immortality

[Mark Walker]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:41 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Martin
> Sustrik
> >...
>
> >>... After all, you can't guarantee that we aren't participating in such a
> simulation now.
>
> >...If so, whoever is listening: LET ME OUT!!!  Martin
>
> Martin if you can produce a body, we will.  Until then, this is the only
> way
> we can keep you alive, pal.
>
> But it's a really good sim in there, is it not?  I helped write it.  Some
> of
> our ExI people are in there with you.  A few years ago there was a movie
> about a kid who saw dead people, all the time, everywhere.  They didn't
> even
> know they were dead.  I wrote the routine that simulates that movie.  It
> was
> a little gag we played on the dead people in the sim; you guys in there
> don't even know you are sims.
>
> spike
>
>
I helped write a routine that had sims thinking they were outside the sim
controlling the sim. It was pretty hilarious. You should have seen one guy
who took a nickname from one of Broderick's books who got all uppity
thinking he was pulling pranks on sims when he was in fact a sim himself.
He's a great figure of fun.

Dr. Mark Walker
Richard L. Hedden Chair of Advanced Philosophical Studies
Department of Philosophy
New Mexico State University
P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3B
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001
USA
http://www.nmsu.edu/~philos/mark-walkers-home-page.html
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