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Not one original idea from these bozos.
Not one original idea from these bozos.
I mean there's equally no evidence humans can't shit themselves so hard that they take off in flight for a moment, if that's our standard of proof.
I'll make the pitch deck -- Y Combinator won't know what hit 'em!!
Zuckerberg read it and somehow the Metaverse is what he got from it?
At least Sergey and Larry lifted Google Earth outta it.
without Snow Crash we'd have no Second Life
We had Larry Niven's "Dream Park" 11 years prior in 1981, the idea was floating around.
Larry Nivened so that Neal could Stevenson.
Back to the idea of adversarial attacks against humans, what do they think the story of Scheherazade from the 9th century is? Just one more bedtime story. Ok one more. Ok one more. Ok one more. Ok one more...
this is active worlds erasure
Everyone loves the metaverse in that, lmao
It's a great book, but the Metaverse only makes sense bc the real world is hellish and spending time socializing there isn't safe.
Me too.
You can't argue with Reason.
You absolutely cannot argue with Reason.
Though Reason sometimes crashes and needs to be rebooted, as it’s still in beta testing.
(One of my favorite details.)
The liquid cooling is good too :D
They'll listen to Reason- even though you know those lines are coming, it's so enjoyable when they do
One basilisk viewing later, I'm completely
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
NO CARRIER
Oh actually I read that thread, he said to someone else that he had never read it but now he's going to, so keep an eye on him for the next few months for any new stolen ideas lmfao
Snow Crash is cool because of the swordfighting and the pizza mafia
sort of like how exposure to the writings of Ayn Rand during adolescence can cause someone to become a complete asshole
No evidence because you can't prove a negative, but also no reason to think it would work that way because brains do not work the same way as artificial neural networks. 🤦♀️
"So you concede that there's no evidence?"
I mean...playing the Barney the Dinosaur song over and over at Abu Graib?
“An artificially constructed sensory input that makes you go insane forever.” Religion?
