“Once you’d created your population of realistically reacting and – in a necessary sense – cogitating individuals, you had – also in a sense – created life. The particular parts of whatever computational substrate you’d devoted to the problem now held beings; virtual beings capable of reacting so much like Read more…
“Don’t blink away, we can fix you,” the engineer said. The Mind of the space station powered up its blink drive. “I think I’m fine as I am.” Then it blinked away into a neat orbit around a gas giant. The station’s Mind had become obsessed for 3.1 milliseconds with Read more…
I’m reading articles about the latest episode, like Doctor Who has shown us the ugly truth about videogames etc, and I’m laughing out loud. The episode introduced the Simming problem, as Iain Banks calls it, where a simulation is so detailed it becomes real enough. Sci-fi has been chewing on these concepts for decades. You poor muggles… #Repost @whoposters
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Omg this episode was sooooooooo good. I absolutely loved the ending, although it had such a dark element to it which really surprised me! And that cheeky unexpected ending too.
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