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Fall down six times. Six hypothetical scenarios.

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Fall down six times. Six hypothetical scenarios.

Unread postby brobak » Tue 30 May 2006, 15:57:58

Interesting little read.

http://www.ranprieur.com/essays/fallsix.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')all Down Six Times
by Ran Prieur
March 15, 2006

"Fall down six times, get up seven."


{edited by MQ to remove unecessary text quotation}
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Re: Fall down six times. Six hypothetical scenarios.

Unread postby julianj » Tue 30 May 2006, 16:58:21

Imaginative and thought-provoking. The last piece was good in that it was less doomerish. Made me feel more optimistic.

For today, anyway.
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Re: Fall down six times. Six hypothetical scenarios.

Unread postby Gridlock » Tue 30 May 2006, 17:41:40

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')eanwhile computer technology keeps accelerating, leading by 2050 to an insane and nearly all-powerful artificial intelligence, which exterminates all life on Earth except a single human, who it keeps alive to torture for all eternity: you.


That has to be one of the darkly funniest things I’ve read. I’ve started trying to slowly follow the advice he gives in ‘how to drop-out’ http://ranprieur.com/essays/dropout.html
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Re: Fall down six times. Six hypothetical scenarios.

Unread postby pigleg » Tue 30 May 2006, 20:16:04

I'm hoping dolphins seize control
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Re: Fall down six times. Six hypothetical scenarios.

Unread postby green_achers » Tue 30 May 2006, 22:38:12

Good read. I read some of this guy's stuff when Ruppert linked to his site several months ago, but had forgotten about him. Thanks for the link.
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Re: Fall down six times. Six hypothetical scenarios.

Unread postby And_over » Thu 01 Jun 2006, 01:08:55

I always enjoy fiction.
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