[ExI] ancient cultural reference: piiiiigs in spaaaaace... RE: Criticisms of Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI)

[Keith Henson]

On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 11:53 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> Interesting, I never understood the title's reference.

I didn't either.  I didn't watch The Muppet Show when it came out but
recently got into the DVD series.  I can see where the name came from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Muppet_Show#Recurring_sketches

> Here is an archive of his CMU website, which seems to have gone down recently: https://archive.ph/AUixv

Thanks.  Hans has been gone from CMU for a long time working for Seegrid.

Keith

> Jason
>
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2023 at 12:48 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 8:40 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
>> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of
>> > Keith Henson via extropy-chat
>> > ...
>> > >...From Pigs in Cyberspace (Hans Moravec who used to post here)
>>  ...
>> There are a zillion refs to this, but the actual paper is not easy to find
>>
>> https://www.aleph.se/Trans/Global/Posthumanity/pigs.txt
>>
>> > Keith
>> > _______________________________________________
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Keith the younger among us (which is nearly everyone here except BillW, you
>> > and me) won't understand the ancient reference:
>> >
>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU0rj6drXdI
>> >
>> > Hey we college kids thought this was hilarious back in the olden days.  The
>> > Muppet Show was on Friday nights.  It was great fun: Muppets Friday evening,
>> > then Saturday Night Live the next night, then back to studies again.
>> >
>> > spike
>>
>> I never studied that much.  Didn't have a TV across many of those years.
>>
>> The kids went to the neighbors to watch
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hartman%2C_Mary_Hartman
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