Posted: 4/21/2013 11:09:56 AM EDT
Welcome to Life: your digital afterlife. |
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Quoted: Frightening, because that's how it would probably happen.  Every song you have ever heard...deleted. Every movie, video, article, book you have ever seen...deleted. Every nike swoosh you ever saw...deleted. All replaced with 8-bit mario public domain "music". |
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Frightening, because that's how it would probably happen. Every song you have ever heard...deleted. Every movie, video, article, book you have ever seen...deleted. Every nike swoosh you ever saw...deleted. All replaced with 8-bit mario public domain "music". and: "...subconscious thought, creativity and self awareness may be rate limited or disabled..." |
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Frightening, because that's how it would probably happen. Every song you have ever heard...deleted. Every movie, video, article, book you have ever seen...deleted. Every nike swoosh you ever saw...deleted. All replaced with 8-bit mario public domain "music". and: "...subconscious thought, creativity and self awareness may be rate limited or disabled..." And death doesn't do those things? lulz I like how y'all are angsty about something that doesn't exist. Me? Jesus loves me, and doesn't care what music I listen to in heaven. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Frightening, because that's how it would probably happen. Every song you have ever heard...deleted. Every movie, video, article, book you have ever seen...deleted. Every nike swoosh you ever saw...deleted. All replaced with 8-bit mario public domain "music". and: "...subconscious thought, creativity and self awareness may be rate limited or disabled..." Oh yeah? Just let me in your system. Can you say "Skynet"?  |
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Quoted: So what value does money have in a simulated existence? As in why would a corporation be "charging" people? What would you buy if you did not need to perform any bodily functions and any object could be materialized in front of you? Make money for those who are not dead? |
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So what value does money have in a simulated existence? As in why would a corporation be "charging" people? What would you buy if you did not need to perform any bodily functions and any object could be materialized in front of you? Make money for those who are not dead? I had assumed that the singularity, being called the "singularity", would consist of everyone being transferred to it. Even still of what value would people made up of 0's and 1's be to us anymore than a character in a video game is? They can't produce anything of intrinsic value. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: So what value does money have in a simulated existence? As in why would a corporation be "charging" people? What would you buy if you did not need to perform any bodily functions and any object could be materialized in front of you? Make money for those who are not dead? I had assumed that the singularity, being called the "singularity", would consist of everyone being transferred to it. Even still of what value would people made up of 0's and 1's be to us anymore than a character in a video game is? They can't produce anything of intrinsic value. Intrinsic value includes intangible factors. Imagine having all programmers be 300 years old, and still programming, and not hampered by a need to eat/sleep/take time off. |
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So what value does money have in a simulated existence? As in why would a corporation be "charging" people? What would you buy if you did not need to perform any bodily functions and any object could be materialized in front of you? Make money for those who are not dead? I had assumed that the singularity, being called the "singularity", would consist of everyone being transferred to it. Even still of what value would people made up of 0's and 1's be to us anymore than a character in a video game is? They can't produce anything of intrinsic value. Intrinsic value includes intangible factors. Imagine having all programmers be 300 years old, and still programming, and not hampered by a need to eat/sleep/take time off. Why would someone toil away doing that when they could just program themselves whatever they want? They would gain nothing by "selling" their work for some meaningless currency. Also if you are the one in control of the program, then wouldn't you simply make a few trillion copies of said programmer? |
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Quoted: Quoted: <snip> Intrinsic value includes intangible factors. Imagine having all programmers be 300 years old, and still programming, and not hampered by a need to eat/sleep/take time off. Why would someone toil away doing that when they could just program themselves whatever they want? They would gain nothing by "selling" their work for some meaningless currency. Unless the system is designed to prevent that? |
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Why would someone toil away doing that when they could just program themselves whatever they want? They would gain nothing by "selling" their work for some meaningless currency. Unless the system is designed to prevent that? How would you program something you can't test or integrate? Again why would someone in the physical world "hire" someone to work for them? Why would they run some corporation in the physical world? A virtual world would have limitless possibilities. Whatever they wanted with that money in the physical world could be theirs instantly in the virtual world. They gain nothing by limiting it for others. You could also take the code for the greatest programmer that could have existed, remove the free will line of code, give them all the processing power that the system could offer and let em go. |
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Well that was.... horrifying. Not quite as horrifying as the idea of complete oblivion and non-existence which common sense dictates is exactly what is entailed in dying. Still, it's a pipe dream. Our technology is easily decades, if not a century or two (or three), away from being able to do something like that. I guess it's just plain old death for me... 
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Well that was.... horrifying. Not quite as horrifying as the idea of complete oblivion and non-existence which common sense dictates is exactly what is entailed in dying. Still, it's a pipe dream. Our technology is easily decades, if not a century or two (or three), away from being able to do something like that. I guess it's just plain old death for me... At the point my mind is subject to a EULA and the whims of a sys admin "I'm" gone anyway, so no thanks. |