<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 6:44 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 25/03/2026 03:39, Keith Henson wrote:<br></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4"><i>
><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span> There is a nice short story that yours also reminds me of, called The Pit and the Duplicate: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081122035540/http://www.leecorbin.com/PitAndDuplicate.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20081122035540/http://www.leecorbin.com/PitAndDuplicate.html</a></i></font></blockquote>
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<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Excellent, thanks Keith, I didn't know about that one.</font></i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Yeah<span class="gmail_default" style="">,</span> thanks Keith<span class="gmail_default" style=""> for pointing it out. E</span>xcellent story,<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>I've never read <span class="gmail_default" style="">it</span> before.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I would have added another button, that copies the person in the pit and kills them at exactly the same time, to complete things.<br></i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>That's the button I would've pressed.<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span> </b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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