<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 6:32 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Your comment has me pondering evil twins and triplets in general. The evil<br>
twin thing is fairly simple, the terms unambiguous. But once we introduce<br>
the complexity of triplets, it upsets my sense of symmetry to imagine two of<br>
the siblings evil and one good. It just feels like you should have one on<br>
either end of the malicious/benevolence spectrum with one exactly at zero.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Evil in different ways. Imagine a set of triplets accelerated away from one another by a shockwave, but with local scenery strongly suggesting each one is stationary. Each triplet would think themselves "not moving" and the other two as "in motion".<br><br></div><div>For example, consider one who strives to bring about an uncontrolled Singularity, believing that any attempt to control it will, given human nature, turn out bad. Then another triplet who seeks to conquer all the areas of the world that could produce the Singularity, so that only that one's preferred model of the Singularity can come about. And the final triplet being one of those folks who sincerely believes the kindest and best fate for humanity is extinction, as soon as possible. Each of these would regard the other two, from their own perspective, as evil.<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>