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The Word of Bob - an AI Minecraft Villager was written as an experiment. If we are truely living in a simulation, then I hypothesize that whoever or whatever is running the simulation would not want people to believe we are in a simulation and no one would read the book. To date, despite promotion worldwide and on related forums, only a handful of people have read the book. Could this be support f
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"From the sly title to the end of this modern fable I was fascinated, amused and provoked into interesting perspectives. You can ask for little more from a book. The humour ( “Large Horse Collider” ) and political asides (about Zombies) were a bonus, as "
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As the author, I can confirm that I knew nothing of Mira Murati, the recently appointed CTO of the world's leading AI developer, Open AI when I wrote
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“Through enlightenment they have lost their ego and attained a oneness with God or a oneness with the universe. They have become infinity over infinity or one.”
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
“With universal basic income for everyone, there was an endless supply of money for basic level simulations and there were plenty of jobs for those who wanted to work to upgrade their simulation. For a while, the only problem was decreasing populations as fewer people had the money, time or patience to raise children.”
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
“Like two strands of DNA with its four primary chemical bonds, each interaction in a relationship provides an opportunity to bond with the four elements of trust, respect, admiration and amae.”
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
“No matter how small or how great one is, without perfect knowledge, there is a need for forgiveness.”
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
“Unforgivable’ actions rise from events that are fixed in time and space and are kept alive by a tormented ego fed on anger and fears that rise from ignorance. In the perfect knowledge of an infinite universe the ‘unforgivable’ dissolves.”
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
“In your interactions with people and things, it is important to keep mindful of the need to communicate and develop mutual trust, respect, admiration and amae. In doing so you humble yourself and at the same time bind yourself to others and your environment.”
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
― The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager
