Our Community
Our Community
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…
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
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The Sims for aliens. Nice. Enjoyed this!
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How does one prove one is not a sim?
Isn't the Velveteen Rabbit a sim?
Wasn't Pinnochio?
Adam?
Isn't the Velveteen Rabbit a sim?
Wasn't Pinnochio?
Adam?
Never judge anyone until you have biopsied their brain.
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Known Some Call Is Air Am
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Known Some Call Is Air Am
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strawman wrote: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!

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
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Wow, that's really strange! Built-in Deja Vu!SpareInch wrote:strawman wrote: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!
So, how does one prove one is not a sim?
Never judge anyone until you have biopsied their brain.
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Known Some Call Is Air Am
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Known Some Call Is Air Am
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- pondspider
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Ask a goldfish.
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But the goldfish is a sim.
Never judge anyone until you have biopsied their brain.
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Known Some Call Is Air Am
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Known Some Call Is Air Am
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- pondspider
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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...
SpareInch wrote: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.
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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.
My son's goldfish kept committing suicide by jumping out of their tank.
At least, that's what his cat said.
Never judge anyone until you have biopsied their brain.
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Known Some Call Is Air Am
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Known Some Call Is Air Am
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- MonsieurMoustache
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strawman wrote: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.

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Failing to prove that you ARE a sim is probably the best you can manage.strawman wrote:Wow, that's really strange! Built-in Deja Vu!SpareInch wrote:strawman wrote: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!
So, how does one prove one is not a sim?
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.