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The day may come when an unforseen catastrophe,
perhaps based on our interpersonal dynamics, will bring
this place to an end. Maybe we'll all get stuck on
annotating and stop posting new ideas or we'll just find
each other so annoying that we'll all just leave, or
another
internet phenomenon
will come along and assimilate us
all. However, this place will have been archived, if not
here
then on the Web Archive or maybe somewhere else.
Once
that has happened, our interactions and behaviour will
be
fossilised.
Imagine, then, some kind of software which can trawl
through all our stuff and recreate us as users,
interacting
realistically as we would ourselves. Long after we are all
dead, a new Halfbakery will arise which consists of
resurrected versions of us all, posting new ideas,
arguing,
discussing and so forth, maybe for millenia to come. In
the meantime, our "real" selves are long gone.
Then, the question arises of who the real 'Bakers are.
Each of us will live up to about a century, but these
'Bakers
will go on and on for many times the length of our lives.
I
would contend that these are the real Halfbakers and we
are merely the zygotes, soon to be forgotten, prefiguring
our future resurrected versions.
In fact, i wonder if it's possible even now to analyse our
behaviour on here to the extent that we could be
simulated, and if that's who [beanangel] is.
Boltzmann's Paradox
http://blogs.discov...ns-anthropic-brain/
It's almost certain that this has been linked to by a computer program rather than by the "real" [nineteenthly]. [nineteenthly, Jun 07 2011]
Beta Version of the FarmerJohn Algorythm
Times_20and_20Seasons
[RayfordSteele, Jun 07 2011]
I thought this had already been implemented...
EZBakery
But in the best way possible. [theleopard, Jun 09 2011]
[link]
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There isn't sufficient stuff here to simulate me. |
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There isn't sufficient stuff here to simulate me. |
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I could be replaced with a short script. |
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Baked in many many SF stories: intelligence as an algorithm. |
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And "Let's have a chat with a famous person who's been dead for a few hundred years" TV programs. |
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Well, as i said, i probably could do with a break, but if i have one, how do i
know everyone won't have one, and then... |
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I think you're making a big assumption that this hasn't already happened |
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I think you're making a big assumption he hasn't already said that. |
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I could have predicted that that's what you would say. |
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I'm just pretending it hasn't, [hippo]. In fact, i took a break several years ago and never returned. |
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Never mind Boltzmann; isn't this idea from classical paganism by way of Nietzsche? In which case, which of us is actually a futuristic simulation of Lucretius? |
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"And how do zombies make you feel?" |
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Yes, there are indeed many precedents in that sense but the interaction on here is of an unusually high quality which is more likely to lead to a convincing set of bots compared to many other sites. |
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Hello all me again custard. Haha wacky idea here buns form me and I'd like it noted I am not a computer totally flesh haha I love feeling emotion and my corporeal frameee e eee eeeeee eeeeeeeee<FORCE STOP "nmf_REBIRTH.exe" - unscripted error> |
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// a convincing set of bots // |
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"You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. " |
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</Taxi Driver>
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>echo on
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>NOT READY READING DRIVE C:, (A)BORT, (R)ETRY, (I)GNORE ?
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>I
>CURRENT DRIVE IS NO LONGER VALID>
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>CANNOT LOAD COMMAND, SYSTEM HALTED
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Breaks are good, and healthy, and full of change. I
miss many people from here, but some remain in
contact, in other forums and forms. A break is
needed when you feel like you need one. I have
found. (love you 19thly.) |
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Hi [notmarkflynn]! I saw your name on facebook the other day and chuckled! I don't really *do* facebook, but there you were!! Nice to see you here! |
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I thought this idea was going to be about halfbakery after the gotterdammerung. Thus I read the phrase interpersonal dynamics and thought it was a synonym for war. After having read the rest of the idea I bunned and still think it is the best phrase to mean war. |
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We don't have those sissy little dots in mah language,
son. Must be one of them liberal commie French
conspiracies. |
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Bruce Sterling invented a word for this: "Fading."
Old Mechanists* never die, they just fade away. |
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*Mechanists were people who became so tightly
integrated with their personal technology that,
when the organic part died, their automated
systems (stock-picking, birthday-card sending, bill-
paying, email answering, etc.) kept right on going for
years, with only a very subtle lack of initiative and
creativity to mark the change. |
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Baked. I have not come back but have been trawled
by computer and resurrected. |
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I like this, but could really like it without the res part. |
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I knew that was not you, [goff], you would never
come back. |
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//the interaction on here is of an unusually high quality which is more likely to lead to a convincing set of bots// |
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lucretius99@bakery% \b Quomodo sequitur? \b \n |
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