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Alice Grove MCDLT - THE END...?
dutchrvl:
Considering it has now been confirmed that the praeses are alien and seem to not have been directly involved with the war itself, I wonder if somehow the AI are behind the current story and wether they have set things in motion to somehow 'free' the original inhabitants of earth from the inner realities of the praeses?
I dunno anymore, frankly there are too many aspects to the whole story that don't really make sense to me, and those don't include the whole Maxwell demon thing.
retrosteve:
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--- Quote from: RSDeuce on 12 Jul 2017, 11:45 ---I don't *know* that Jeph and Randall know each other, but they have linked to each other for pretty much forever, and if I were Jeph and had the option to run some sci-fi shit by XCKD I sure would.
Two comics in a row that seem particularly relevant. I really do think Randall is at a minimum watching with us, and possibly colored the world's physics back when Jeph was working on the concept.
https://xkcd.com/1862/
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Well, if you're bringing that up, I should mention that Jeph definitely knows Charlie Stross. (Here he is talking to Marten http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2394 ) and the Blink definitely bears some Stross influence (see Iron Sunrise). There is also some simulated world in space stuff going on in Stross (Accelerando). So there's an influence for sure.
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I don't want to jump ahead of any further replies now, but I know Jeph knows Charlie, and Charlie has since then changed his views.
EDIT: on the singularity, I mean; he wrote a book with Cory called "The Rapture of the Nerds".
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True. I knew Charlie had changed view on the possibility of quantum entanglement communications since Singularity Sky due to the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem but I wasn't aware he had also changed view on the Singularity. But it still looks like there was a Blink. The only ways I can think of to edit reality on that scale involve either a "weakly godlike" entity (i.e. The Singularity) or that the whole Alice Earth was already a simulation.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: retrosteve on 13 Jul 2017, 16:12 ---...or that the whole Alice Earth was already a simulation.
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Given the description of the Blink sure sounds like the way I feel looking at a new and unfamiliar user interface upon restart after an update.
(Yeah, Windows 10 is doing it again on my other computer. Instead of looking forward to new and/or improved functionality my gut response is, "What did the sonofabitches break this time?" One of these days I'm gonna be pissed off enough to move everything to Linux.)
Case:
--- Quote from: zmeiat_joro on 13 Jul 2017, 15:10 ---EDIT: on the singularity, I mean; he wrote a book with Cory called "The Rapture of the Nerds".
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Love that one! Each of them is quite capable of tickling my funny bone, but together ...
Kugai:
That still leaves the question over The Nightwalkers actions to speculate over.
Alice May be closer to the truth than she realises.
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