@davidgerard One can only hope.
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Them: “Come on, they don’t believe something that crazy.”
Me: “Oh, I forgot the bonzi buddy can time travel!”
@dbreunig @davidgerard isn't the joke that it can't time travel? It will create using the data you leave on the internet a simulation of you (which because it's identical is you) and torture that for all eternity if you don't try to bring it into existence to incentivise you to bring it into existence.
@davidgerard @notyetpassed there was a branch where it could time travel. Which, strangely, makes more sense since it’s nonproductive to create a simulation of you to torture forever after you already made the wrong decision.
I’d say the whole thing is not well thought out, but they’ve thought about it *so* much. It’s a substitution for religion that serves the same role: providing them purpose in an otherwise empty life and letting them feel special.