• tetris11@feddit.uk
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        12 days ago

        I feel this with every fibre of my soul.

        Alternately, would be nice to find a debug console…

        while gini.coefficient > 0.2:
           for perp in get_top_percent(1):
             perp.teleportLocation("Mars Base", {resources: "humble"})
             perp.setWorldDesignation("Deceased")
           sleep(30, "days")
        
      • lauha@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        You can never know. Maybe simulation started just 2 minutes ago and all you memories are just fabrication? Maybe this is a long term simulation and kept running for centuries in some university? Maybe all the crew in the starship are dead and simulation is running indefinitely because everyone is dead?

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        He believed it worked for him anyway, even though in the end he and his entire experience became “a little device sitting on someone’s table.” Maybe that’s enough.

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        10 days ago

        He was an adversary worthy of Data running on the whole ship’s computer, we’d run on a replicator