Our Community

[munsi]

I’m proud of the community we’ve created.

We built replicants, from scratch, then programmed them to believe they were actual people, before dropping them into a perfect recreation of an early twenty-first century town.

In this recreation, they work, strive and live, believing themselves to be real human beings, believing their actions to matter in the grand scheme...

Believing nobody’s watching, taking notes.

There’s more conflict than we predicted, but they manage it among themselves, and to date the results we’ve gotten back have been… useful.

We’ve learned a lot, through their simulated lives, about how people lived back then…

[MonsieurMoustache]

The Sims for aliens. Nice. Enjoyed this!

[strawman]

How does one prove one is not a sim?
Isn't the Velveteen Rabbit a sim?
Wasn't Pinnochio?
Adam?

[SpareInch]

How does one prove one is not a sim?

There is a simple test.

Just drive out of town heading north. If the next place you come to is the same town, approached from the south, you're a Sim.

Easy!

[strawman]

How does one prove one is not a sim?

There is a simple test.

Just drive out of town heading north. If the next place you come to is the same town, approached from the south, you're a Sim.

Easy!

Wow, that's really strange! Built-in Deja Vu!

So, how does one prove one is not a sim?

[pondspider]

Ask a goldfish.

[strawman]

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But the goldfish is a sim.

[pondspider]

Just as a goldfish is said (wrongly, probably) to have poor short-term memory and so never gets bored in its bowl of water, the same would apply to a sim in SpareInch's scenario...

Just drive out of town heading north. If the next place you come to is the same town, approached from the south, you're a Sim.

[strawman]

I think "wrongly probably" is probably right.
My son's goldfish kept committing suicide by jumping out of their tank.
At least, that's what his cat said.

[MonsieurMoustache]

I think "wrongly probably" is probably right.
My son's goldfish kept committing suicide by jumping out of their tank.
At least, that's what his cat said.

In a universe where cats talk, suicidal goldfish seem perfectly believable.

[SpareInch]

How does one prove one is not a sim?

There is a simple test.

Just drive out of town heading north. If the next place you come to is the same town, approached from the south, you're a Sim.

Easy!

Wow, that's really strange! Built-in Deja Vu!

So, how does one prove one is not a sim?

Failing to prove that you ARE a sim is probably the best you can manage.