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- From: rice@sumex-aim.Stanford.EDU (James Rice)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: On God and Science
- Date: 28 Dec 92 09:36:02
- Organization: Knowledge Systems Lab, Stanford University
- Lines: 35
- Message-ID: <RICE.92Dec28093602@hpp-ipc-2.stanford.edu>
- References: <725483441.AA06128@csource.oz.au>
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- In-reply-to: joe@csource.oz.au's message of Fri, 25 Dec 1992 10:09:00
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- In article <725483441.AA06128@csource.oz.au> joe@csource.oz.au (Joe Slater) writes:
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- I would be sufficiently impressed by getting *one* universe up and running.
- This, to my mind, illustrates the difference between someone with high-level
- computers who works with AI, and someone who works with accounting packages
- on PCs :-)
-
- It also demonstrates that it's no use giving the former more expensive
- hardware, because they'll never be satisfied with what they have until
- they can create an infinite set of virtual universes.
-
- jds
-
- Now I understand the universe. god has been consing so furiously
- that by the time he got to our universe he was running short of
- address space. This explains why my brain seems to spend the whole
- of monday mornings GCing desparately.
-
-
-
-
- Rice.
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- [9:35: Address space warning... You have only 4 free regions. Type
- Term-0-S to expose background Lisp interactor 42]
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- Term-0-S to expose background Lisp interactor 43]
- [9:35: Address space warning... You have only 2 free regions. Type
- Term-0-S to expose background Lisp interactor 44]
- [9:35: Address space warning... You have only 1 free region. Type
- Term-0-S to expose background Lisp interactor 45]
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- .... microcode halt.....
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