Pons_Aelius

DIE ALREADY!!

I hate to tell your this but his mother lived to 106…

Did you read the comment you replied to or did you just spit out this pre-packaed reply that addresses nothing the original comment raised?

Simply put.

We wouldn’t notice anything.

Our perception of the world would be based only on the compute cycles and not on any external time-frame.

The machine could run at a Million Billion hertz or at one clock-cycle per century and your perception of time inside the machine would be the same.

Same with low ram, we would have no indication if we were constantly being paged out to a hard drive and written back to ram as required.

Greg Egan gave a great explanation of this in the opening chapter of his Novel Permutation City

Nah, that will come 3 months later when to keep providing a world class service they will have to discontinue the free accounts.

But don’t worry, they will give existing customers great upgrade deals.

unlimited file transfers, unlike competitors.

Looking into my crystal ball…

I give this 2-3 months before file transfers are limited due to multi-terrabyte daily transfers from accounts hosting pirated media.

Carlin-McCall said the channel never reached out to the family or asked for permission to use her father’s likeness.

Welcome to the world of posthumous digital slavery!

When a person dies, anyone can do what ever they want with their image and life’s work.

Is this a kissing book?

My name is James Tiberius Kirk, you killed my friend, prepare to die!

I spent a decade working in insolvency.

When we were going into a business that had failed the question was “Are the idiots, criminals or both?”

One highlight:

A boat sales / marine business goes bust. When we arrive with the paper work and seize the place there are about a dozen new boats on the lot worth several million. We change the locks on the gates.

Arrive the next day, the gates have been busted open and several million in boats are now missing. We look up the addresses of the owners (one of them lives on acreage) and drive to their property…from the road we can see the boats stashed there. Really smart guys.

So we call the police. Someone inside notices use there and decides to flee with one of the boats, it is huge but they think they can get away.

We then have the slowest car chase in history as we calmly follow this guy towing a boat on a trailer down the road while talking to the cops to meet us.

Another example of:

A gun is way more likely to be used on a member of your household than in defence of that household.

Owning Guns Puts People in Your Home at Greater Risk of Being Killed, New Study Shows

The Myth Behind Defensive Gun Ownership

People in homes with handguns more likely to be shot dead, major study finds

Person hired as meat puppet mouth piece for owner continues to defend owner.

Details at 11.

seems eminently wikipediable

Telephones existed for a century before wikkipedia…

In the before times: The guinness book of records started as a promo by the guinness brewery given to pub owners to settle bar argumnets like this one.

From everything we know interstellar travel in less than generational time scales is all but impossible.

The only thing that is more improbable from our current knowledge of physics is…travel back in time.

Occam’s razor: The explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct.

So we have three possibilities.

A foreign power

Aliens

Time Travel.

…

The boring reality is that it is the first one. A foreign power.