[ExI] The second step towards immortality

[Anders Sandberg]

On 2014-01-07 17:31, spike wrote:
>
> >...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
>
> HA! Little do YOU know, Dr. Walker!  In fact YOU are the sim who 
> thought you wrote the sim to pull a gag on the sim (me) who thought I 
> was writing the sim to screw with Martin's "mind."  I WROTE you, pal.  
> I wrote you to "think" you wrote me.  We are out here watching you 
> "think" about this right now, yukking it up and having a big real life 
> party, watching you get all uppity thinking you wrote us.  "Think" 
> about it.
>
Ha! Zach has outed you all: 
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1582#comic

In fact, SMBC has a remarkable number of simulation argument strips
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2535
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2055
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2073#comic
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2203#comic
Almost as if he was trying to say something...

(Now back to simulating banks collapsing. I like simulations with no 
link whatsoever to reality. A bit like abstract art...)

-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/attachments/20140107/5c3b75c6/attachment.html>