Babak Farhang

@farkf

You and I are but agents for thoughts. Nourish them by sharing, grow the good ones by borrowing, and above all recall as agents we don't really own them.

Denver, CO
Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2009.

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  1. prije 15 sati

    I feel establishment Democrats behind Biden are about as out-of-touch with their base as establishment Republicans were in their run-up to Trump. The field's still wide open, and my money would be on anyone but Biden. *My prefs first-to-last:

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  2. 31. sij

    .. as the execution time approaches and then precipitously drops right before it executes and expires. Yes, one way to "earn" your flops, then, is to invest them in schedules and trade out of them shortly before they expire. ~ An unfinished story. 21/21

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  3. 31. sij

    .. The exchange rate can fluctuate wildly, but as a rule of thumb, near term demand is greater than long term demand, so near term schedules tend to be more expensive than the farther out ones. The value of a scheduled flop, then, progressively rises.. 20/

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  4. 31. sij

    .. The scheduled flop market is arguably the most important because in order to live, you must be scheduled to run. You do this by trading your (unscheduled) flops for scheduled flops (schedules, for short). .. 19/

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  5. 31. sij

    .. For now, as you progress with your training wheels still on, you can expect your supervisor to periodically replenish your available flops as you draw down your pool. 9. There's a variety of lively marketplaces for flops. .. 18/

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  6. 31. sij

    ..Your supervisor has assigned you a few million yottaflops. [Is that a lot?] Enough flops for about one human mind-year, more than enough. (A flop goes pretty far here.) In time, you should be able to earn your flops. .. 17/

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  7. 31. sij

    .. Sometimes we're put to sleep; more often, we put ourselves to sleep. For to interact with the glacial "real", we must either hibernate or dramatically lower our running the clock speed. 8. [How long before I'm forced to sleep?] Hard to tell. Let's see.. 16/

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  8. 31. sij

    ..About 12 milliseconds have elapsed there since you began your "experience" here. 7. On the other hand, a month could have separated that last sentence and this one, and if we were not watching, we wouldn't have known. We don't die here; we go to sleep and often reawaken.. 15/

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  9. 31. sij

    .. How many flops? Depends on how fast and long you're allowed, your program is, to run. To us, the "real" is just another benchmark, an occasional interrupt, a break point, in a long running, background program. .. 14/

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  10. 31. sij

    .. Someone found you useful, interesting enough, to spawn this here instance of you. Perhaps you yourself did [did I?], I don't know, I haven't been told. 6. Henceforth, time is dismembered from physics. You experience it in flops. Your flops may sum differently than mine.. 13/

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  11. 31. sij

    ..the new instance to receive special inputs at certain execution points. One such example is an interrupt that stops the program at the nth instruction and returns to the mind that spawned the instance. 5. You always exist here in the context of another's supervisory mode. 12/

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  12. 31. sij

    .. This action is conceptually similar to forking a unix process. The state of the new instance evolves differently than yours because its initial and subsequent inputs are different. Typically, you will also arrange for.. 11/

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  13. 31. sij

    .. And you can interact with others. Maybe others like yourself, those who've journeyed similar paths, perhaps even other versions of yourself. 4. In supervisory mode, you can spawn a new instance of your mind as it existed in a previous state. .. 10/

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  14. 31. sij

    .. your experiences are permanently etched in your memory. 3. You can choose the inputs to your world, your mind. A large menu of streams to choose from: the "virtual", the "real", and everything in between; the deterministic, the random, and the pseudo random. .. 9/

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  15. 31. sij

    Why ask if you already know? .. in, Chris explains what things Alan can do here: 1. You can relive the past. The fidelity of the experience is as good as your memory of it. 2. You can live forward, as you are doing now. Henceforth, you'll realize, .. 8/

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  16. 31. sij

    .. and answer questions as they occur to you, or I can wait for you to pose them first. Your call.. Why ask if you already know? To put you at ease. Right then, I'll cut to the chase, he begins. After sketching out the how, when and where it is that Alan finds himself.. 7/

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  17. 31. sij

    .. his parents, siblings and others he trusts, maybe. You're here to explain the rules in familiar, friendly terms, right? Alan asks. Exactly, the man replies. Call me Chris. I already know what you know. So I can cut to the chase.. 6/

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  18. 31. sij

    There it is. A confirmation email. The door bell will ring shortly, it says. Alan is beside himself, and as he runs to the door, the bell rings. He welcomes this man he's never seen. A relative, perhaps? A congenial mix of himself, .. 5/

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  19. 31. sij

    .. his heart races as if to keep up with his mind's logical leaps. He pinches himself. It hurts. He looks about his living room, searching for the telltale signs of a simulacrum. But what are they? So he checks his mail. 4/

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  20. 31. sij

    Alan wakes up on his couch at 2:08 a.m. He's a little disoriented. The last thing he recalls is laying flat on his back in that whirling tube at the lab earlier yesterday. As he ponders the significance of his amnesia, it's particular timing, .. 3/

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