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[cactusy]

1. How hard does this place go with simulating bodily functions? We have to eat and expel waste, but do we menstruate? Get colds? Get infections? Get cancer? Get pregnant?

2. If our robot overlord is all about crime and punishment, what happens if we kill someone here?

Comments

[cactusy]

doesn't anybody keep records?

[solitarysoul]

i never checked but i'm sure someone does.

[cactusy]

this is a weird amount of apathy, which is saying a lot coming from me

[solitarysoul]

huh?

its not like records of who's here or who's died is public record around here. i'm sure if someone i knew died and came back or didn't i'd know, but it doesn't really matter to people who don't know them, does it?

[cactusy]

are the people you know all immortal?

[solitarysoul]

no?

i've only been here a year and despite the last few months there's usually not much of a death count.

[cactusy]

not what I've heard, but ok

whatever, it doesn't matter, if you don't care then you don't care. I get not seeing the point in worrying too much about stuff that might not ever happen. I just don't get not wanting to know about it at all.

[solitarysoul]

you mean when people die or how it works? people die all the time, its normal. if something big happened people make it known on the network but its not like i keep a list or anything.

and i couldn't possibly understand how any of this shit works so why try?

[cactusy]

how often people die, how often they come back

I don't understand the technonerd details either, but the basics matter

[solitarysoul]

people don't really die all that often. there've only been a few times where that's happened since i got here.

[cactusy]

dude, you just said that people die all the time

which is it

[solitarysoul]

what?

[Oh, he did say that.]

i meant in general, anywhere people are people will die. its a part of life.

people don't die HERE that often, unless they keep it quiet somehow.

[He kept his death secret, after all.]

[cactusy]

no sickness probably means no old age deaths too, right?

[solitarysoul]

i've never heard of it, but i don't think anyone has been here long enough to get old enough to die.

locals wouldn't count, but i don't remember ever seeing a funeral.

[cactusy]

and the AI doesn't like simulating octogenarians? that's weird. old people can commit crime, too.

[solitarysoul]

well, there are some older chosen but they do tend to pull younger people a lot. there are old locals but none of them are real anyway.

[cactusy]

i guess young people have more time to turn their life around, or are less set in their ways.

[solitarysoul]

i guess that makes sense.

[Doesn't mean its the reasoning behind it, but it is logical.]