The others laughed, and we started to settle in. We did Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock for bunks, - Dennis E. Taylor

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The others laughed, and we started to settle in. We did Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock for bunks,

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Dennis Taylor, writing as Dennis E. Taylor, is a Canadian novelist and former computer programmer known for his largescale hard science fiction stories exploring the interaction between artificial intelligence and the human condition.

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They’re forming mutual-interest groups for all kinds of things.” “Like Starfleet, and the Borg.” “Mm-hmm. And the Skippies — ” “Skippies? Skippies?” I could feel my eyes bugging out, even in VR. “What, they’ve changed their avatars to beer cans and started calling people monkeys?” Bill snorted his coffee and had to take a moment to compose himself.

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Was I alive? Hmm, since no one had yet managed to define life rigorously, that was going to be a fun one. As the speaker at that long-ago panel in Vegas had pointed out, fire has most of the qualities of life but is not alive. According to Dr. Landers, I would be able to reproduce via printer-based autofactories. I certainly responded to stimuli, and acted with self-interest. The claim that life would have to be carbon-based was chauvinistic and narrow-minded, so yeah, I could consider myself alive.

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