tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post721305613076261709..comments2024-03-25T11:49:21.281-07:00Comments on The Splintered Mind: Reinstalling EdenEric Schwitzgebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-11079616764570911932013-12-04T15:27:29.170-08:002013-12-04T15:27:29.170-08:00Sounds interesting. Thanks for the tip!Sounds interesting. Thanks for the tip!Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-39991571970884385572013-12-03T17:52:22.513-08:002013-12-03T17:52:22.513-08:00That world on a wire sounds cool!That world on a wire sounds cool!Callan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15373053356095440571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-84373577066725200012013-12-03T16:52:46.164-08:002013-12-03T16:52:46.164-08:00Have you seen Fassbinder's "World on a Wi...Have you seen Fassbinder's "World on a Wire"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070904/<br /><br />It's a wonderful and very creepy presentation of this idea in film. Way ahead of its time for early 70s German TV...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12687447590125870474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-65061955847526063422013-12-02T12:44:34.649-08:002013-12-02T12:44:34.649-08:00Yes! Interesting options. These are the kinds of...Yes! Interesting options. These are the kinds of issues I imagine the first narrator to be considering when he is doing "theodicy, top-down". It might be interesting to try another story with a narrator who works explicitly through one or more of these other ways of going....Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-8956811826097622432013-12-01T04:00:56.887-08:002013-12-01T04:00:56.887-08:00Arguably, such creatures should be given self-know...<i>Arguably, such creatures should be given self-knowledge, autonomy, and control over their own world -- but then we might end up, again, with evil</i><br /><br />One could simulate beings who traditionally don't have such rights, like chimps, and then make them happy according in their favorite ways.<br /><br />Alternatively, one could simulate beings with self-knowledge and autonomy, but design their world so that they cannot commit evil against each other because their rights are always protected.<br /><br />Alternatively, one could simulate beings with self-knowledge and autonomy, but design their nature so benevolent that they do not want to commit evil.<br /><br />But it might be quite tricky. I would just simplify the problem and simulate unintelligent pleasure brains in constant activation, but not everybody like that idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-60457064781784671922013-11-29T15:44:47.215-08:002013-11-29T15:44:47.215-08:00Thanks for the kind comments, folks, and for the s...Thanks for the kind comments, folks, and for the suggestions of fiction on similar issues!Eric Schwitzgebelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11541402189204286449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-71224142441516529222013-11-28T05:58:37.669-08:002013-11-28T05:58:37.669-08:00Fantastic story.
I've been exposed to your bl...Fantastic story.<br /><br />I've been exposed to your blog before but this might actually keep me a regular.<br /><br />Cheers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-26703760071720557672013-11-28T02:52:01.969-08:002013-11-28T02:52:01.969-08:00Iain M Banks covered this in his last Culture Nove...Iain M Banks covered this in his last Culture Novel - The Hydrogen Sonata. But still a good story.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-71524779520787659032013-11-27T17:33:24.806-08:002013-11-27T17:33:24.806-08:00Congrats, Eric, I'm pretty sure that will leav...Congrats, Eric, I'm pretty sure that will leave a long lasting mark!<br /><br />But hey, in a way, aren't alot of issues raised by having kids, willy nilly?Callan S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15373053356095440571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-91453990231703977482013-11-27T15:49:02.180-08:002013-11-27T15:49:02.180-08:00The best fiction I read on this was this: http://s...The best fiction I read on this was this: http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the_lifecycle_of_software_objects_by_ted_chiang<br /><br />some great illustrations in the hard copy too. nathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09766849730535304890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26951738.post-73536942602495276232013-11-27T12:37:08.735-08:002013-11-27T12:37:08.735-08:00Congrats on the publication. Nature... I think I&#...Congrats on the publication. Nature... I think I've heard of that one. ;)Jorge A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02382191206864285204noreply@blogger.com