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Carl Muckenhoupt <carl@wurb.com> wrote:
> On the other hand, the notion that they need Perry's recordings to
> extend the sim into the future is pretty absurd.

I always thought that they needed Perry's recordings to justify the
funding for extending the sim into the future -- not to provide
necessary data for the sim itself.

My interpretation of the story was that the initial run encouraged
politicians to act on the plan, and fund future runs -- and that only in
later runs did it become apparent that the plan would lead to a
dystopian future, at which point Perry had to fight to get the data
accepted and the plan killed.


mathew
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