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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-01-07 17:31, spike wrote:<br>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">>…</span>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. <span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>Dr. Mark
                  Walker<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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.</span></p>
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    Ha! Zach has outed you all: <a
      href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1582#comic">http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1582#comic</a><br>
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    In fact, SMBC has a remarkable number of simulation argument strips<br>
    <a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2535">http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2535</a><br>
    <a href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2055">http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2055</a><br>
    <a
      href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2073#comic">http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2073#comic</a><br>
    <a
      href="http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2203#comic">http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2203#comic</a><br>
    Almost as if he was trying to say something...<br>
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    (Now back to simulating banks collapsing. I like simulations with no
    link whatsoever to reality. A bit like abstract art...)<br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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