RE: Earnings as art (satire)

From: Max More (max@maxmore.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 00:16:36 MDT


>At 01:04 PM 7/2/02 +0930, Emlyn wrote:
>
> >> Natasha's "Primo"
> >>I'm already saving up for mine.
>
> >I don't think I'd buy one. I might hire one once in a while if I need to
> >drop back into the physical world for some reason.
>
>Hire! That's the trouble with kids today--bone lazy! Why, when I was an
>upload, we used to have our agents forage for atoms and *roll our own*.
>
>Damien Broderick

Forage?! You don't know how good you had it! When I was a sprightly young
upload, we used to have to materialize our sub-atomic particles and atoms
out of quantum vacuum fluctuations. I would have died permanently for the
chance to roll my own from atoms, I would.

Max

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