Crystal Nights

A few weeks ago, I pointed you at David Langford's online story New Hope for the Dead, whose spammer protagonist had been uploaded into his virtual afterlife as an Electronic-Golem Artificial Neurosystem or EGAN. I now want to point you at, by a real Egan, the online story Crystal Nights. Here's a sample:

She said, "You know what they say the modern version of Pascal.s Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God. Perhaps your motto should be 'Treat every chatterbot kindly, it might turn out to be the deity's uncle'."


May 24, 2009
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/crystal-nights/228700150

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