From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@www.aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 18:37:19 MST
Out of the frying pan, into the fire, thats what I always say...
Remember the stories, the smell of burning flesh, the cracking
of the bones as the water boils inside of them....
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
... Oh, good I'm being quoted out of context....
> > > The value is *being* what *you* want to *be*.
> >
... I believe the following can be attributed to Bryan Moss...
> > You know, I've always wanted to be a rapist, it's nice to
> > know you're with me.
>
And now Harvey gets in his two bits...
> Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting all the postings in the proper order....
Since I popping a Last-In First-Out (LIFO stack for those with
a geek vocabulary)...
a) No you may not be getting them in proper order. I've figured out
that my emailer (Pine) doesn't deal with the time zone adjustments.
Damien's email always shows up at the end even though it should show
up at the beginning.
Now of course, reading things 'out of order' certainly makes for
an interesting interpretation of 'time'. Am I in Permutation City?
... you be the judge....
b) Now, now, now, now Bryan... I give you one degree of freedom and
suddenly you want three or four. You may be what you want to be
but not if that interferes with what other people want to be unless
you are "being" in a VR.
c) Aside: since Greg & I haven't resolved the problem of whether
behaviors in VR are immoral, I can only hope that when the rest of
you get through raping and gaming and uploading and uplifting and
"becoming" human and transhuman and resolving the meaning of Q*,
that you will ultimately devote a few of those excess CPU cycles to
the question -- if you are arrested or raped or killed in someone
elses dream, do you really care?
Robert
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