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4:14 pm
September 12, 2010
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sheila
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Hljothlegur said:
sheila said:
aha, what you need to do is write a fanfic generator to spam the memespace thus making the environment so target rich that no one would be able to find the ham in all of that.
(I am joking. plus, the bayesian filtering would probably pick out reasonable facsimiles of what looks like real messages. alas. (again, just joking))
(I need to work on my jokes.)
Thereby removing oneself a step from the actual blasphemous act?
somewhat but I was also thinking that someone with only one or two fanfics in existence might not be able to help looking at them. but, suppose there were 2000 fanfics out there. who the fuck has the time to read all that? at which point, if you really want to write something without nary a care, have at it.
I also like the game world because that is a conceit that leaves you a few steps removed from any real person or the person's characters.
We can go more low-tech, and use the Mad Libs approach with themed word choices. http://www.prillalar.com/drabbles/ yields this:
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Peter Watts opened the box. Inside was a beautiful regression analysis! He gazed at it skeptically. Then he gazed at Margaret Atwood skeptically "It's fragile," Peter Watts said. "Come here and let me impart you."
[...]
wow, I know exactly how he feels. I want to gaze at someone's beautiful regression analysis skeptically, until I'm persuaded by someone's hard facts. that's so dreamy.
(that madlib was very cute)
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4:19 pm
September 12, 2010
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sheila
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Mats said:
so… are we allowed to photoshop that pic of Peter? i might be able to make him look like Davy Jones in Pirates of the Carribean…
which one? some of them were taken in Sydney by Peter's host, and maybe you could drop her a line to see if she has them under a creative commons license that allows derivative works? or something?
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2:06 pm
September 13, 2010
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I need someone to jog my memory for that. I don't think I got it from an
interview but implicitly from a short story where someone was trying to
hire a programmer to create artificial life that would evolve to
sentience. She refused to, because it would have required mass murder.
The employeer had to find someone else to work on the experiment, plot
ensued.
Interview with Greg Egan:
http://gregegan.customer.netsp…..html#noise
I was so fascinated to read (in another interview) you say that you
believe there'll be conscious software in your/our lifetime, but that
you don't think you'll live to see scanning. Can you expand more on this
please and maybe give a brief explanation of what you mean for those
not familiar with your work?
I'm fairly sure that there'll be software in my lifetime
that's conscious, though how it will first arise I don't know. It might
be something like a complete computer simulation of, say, a lizard in a
virtual environment — in which case it could be as difficult to
convince some people that this program really is conscious as it is to
convince some people that animals are conscious. Or it might be
something we evolve in a computer without any real connection to
biology, or something we design to test a theory about consciousness.
One worry I have is that we might produce conscious software before we
know it, and put the software through a lot of suffering without even
realising it. We're a very long way from that point right now, but
ultimately it's a serious issue. It would be a horrible irony if, just
as we were phasing out animal experimentation altogether and replacing
it with computer simulations, some of those simulations turned out to be
going through just as much pain as any lab rat.
Will "Malak" be on the topic of machines becoming accidentally conscious, too? I only read the fiblet.
I need someone to jog my memory for that. I don't think I got it from an
interview but implicitly from a short story where someone was trying to
hire a programmer to create artificial life that would evolve to
sentience. She refused to, because it would have required mass murder.
The employeer had to find someone else to work on the experiment, plot
ensued.
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12:56 pm
September 16, 2010
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Hljothlegur
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Post edited 4:04 pm – September 16, 2010 by Hljothlegur
The Hugo-mediated Squee-splosion underway?
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?…..ment-31397
In response to PW posting photos of self at Hugo-winning time, Cleo remarks:
<squee>Congrats. You are sexy smoldering hot!</squee>
This is step one of becoming a squee-object – women telling you in a public forum what a stone hotty you are. I tell ya, we are within three steps of fans going through his garbage. XD Tell me I'm wrong.
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3:52 pm
September 16, 2010
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sheila
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Hljothlegur said:
The Hugo-mediated Squee-splosion underway?
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?…..ment-31397
In response to PW posting photos of self at Hugo-winning time, Cleo remarks:
<b>Congrats. You are sexy smoldering hot!</b>
This is step one of becoming a squee-object – women telling you in a public forum what a stone hotty you are. I tell ya, we are within three steps of fans going through his garbage. XD Tell me I'm wrong.
hahaha.
I wonder if that comment was prompted by the squee conversation here.
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6:32 pm
September 16, 2010
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Hljothlegur
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sheila said:
Hljothlegur said:
The Hugo-mediated Squee-splosion underway?
http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?…..ment-31397
In response to PW posting photos of self at Hugo-winning time, Cleo remarks:
<b>Congrats. You are sexy smoldering hot!</b>
This is step one of becoming a squee-object – women telling you in a public forum what a stone hotty you are. I tell ya, we are within three steps of fans going through his garbage. XD Tell me I'm wrong.
hahaha.
I wonder if that comment was prompted by the squee conversation here.
*thinks* Could the problem be that everyone in the Peter Watts peoplespace is smoking hot, and she was just stating the obvious. *strikes a sexy pose* 
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