On: The Egg (2009)

[vbuterin]

I haven't, for one.

[thenerdfiles → vbuterin]

Do souls have cryptographic hashes?

[asveikau → thenerdfiles]

If so maybe they should change the hash function, according to this short story billions of collisions have been found.

[kordless → thenerdfiles]

Assuredly they do. It's intriguing you replied with this comment to the guy that will probably bring that to pass for all software processes.

[thenerdfiles → kordless]

I know exactly who I asked this of, and that's why I asked it of him.

[kordless → thenerdfiles]

That would imply we're all thinking the same thing then. That continues to be interesting to me.

[thenerdfiles → kordless]

That we could all be considering a concept that has, even if true, a statistically insignificant measurable signature?

    God: Oh yes, yes! Souls... I remember those. Great idea at the time. Yeah, I wrote those a loooong time ago. They're causally insignificant now, I'm pretty sure. Obviously it's all automated by now.

Or something Stephensonian, like the protofestering of a fledgling clan of digital spiritalists secretly brooding over the core belief-set of Hackerdom as it is scripted?

[thenerdfiles → thenerdfiles]

whom*, you baboon.