From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 10:51:22 MDT
Max More wrote:
>
> >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
Well, you young whippersnappers don't know how good you had it. Back in
my day, we didn't even have a vacuum to fluctuate, living in ten
dimensional flatspace as we did. We had to manufacture our own pocket
universes of three to six dimensions in order to have a vacuum to
fluctuate, and even then we had to deal with all the red tape of getting
permits and paying dimension fees to the Sysop of tenspace to do so,
getting Tenspace Impact Statements done and dealing with all the No
Pocket Universes In My Back Yard luddites. Imagine ten dimensional
paperwork, in decaplicate!
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