sinrakin
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Joined: 11 Oct 2002
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 Posted: 07/25/05 - 15:45 Post subject: nice concept
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Heh, I came across a cool line in a science fiction book I was reading. Basically there's a post-nuclear-war-blah-blah civilization where one faction is descended from zen-samurai-ninja types or something, and they're sort of enlightened but don't believe in being resurrected or being uploaded into a virtual reality after they die (which the technology allows for).
One of the guys says the reason for not uploading them into a virtual reality is (paraphrasing since I don't have the book here) "you tend to get an entire virtual civilization of four billion people building prayer wheels in an attempt to mount a denial of service attack on God".
Heh, I thought getting so many people praying that you could do DoS on God was too good of a concept to be just a throw away line in a book  It would be fun to do a story based on that. Or mix in some intelligent design/ Matrix stuff, since the "God" doing the intelligent design of our universe could easily be a machine made by an even greater power, you could do specially constructed prayers to try to trigger buffer overruns in God, and hack Him.
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