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Re:We are living in someone else's computer simulation by Tichy on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @06:20PM (#42458)
My favorite variant of this is a story from Stanislaw Lem's book "Star diaries", written decades ago. I chose my nickname from the name of the hero of that book, Ijon Tichy ;-)
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Re:We are living in someone else's computer simulation by alex_c on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @08:05PM (#42492)
One of my favourite authors :)

Another somewhat related short story - "The Last Question" by Asimov:

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html

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Re:We are living in someone else's computer simulation by rokhayakebe on Tuesday August 14, 2007 @09:42PM (#42520)
great writing. everyone should read it and try not to just scan through it or you will miss a very valuable lesson.
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Re:We are living in someone else's computer simulation by andreyf on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @12:05AM (#42549)
absolutely delightful!
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