Speaking of Greg Egan. I recommend the Greg Egan book entitled
"Permutation City". Its all about allocating clock cycles to the rich
and not to the poor! :) Subjectively, having few clock cycles doesn't
alter your experience, but objectively, you are running alot slower
relative to others. The time it takes a poor person to walk across
the street, 1000 earth years might have passed.
Really cool book.
Marko.
On Aug 14, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
"it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in
someone else's
computer simulation." - Nick Bostrom, Oxford
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.html?
ex=1187755200&en=258a5f406
ca9d607&ei=5070&emc=eta1
Damn, them Posthumans! They're not allocating me sufficient CPU and
memory!
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