The Death of Richard Dawkins: A short story by Steve Yegge

  • If anyone has worked out what his point is, please let us know.

  • Steve, please continue blogging. Nobody's figured it out yet, or if they have, we probably have few ways to confirm their correctness.

  • Why does this have 23 points?

  • Anyone able to help with these questions:

    What are external events?

    What is going on with Dawkins being out-of-body and able to influence the world?

    How did Dawkins get from the date of his death to a simulation in the future? Is it because he was at the moment they've copied in their time bubble?

  • I think External Event is What We Are All Afraid Of: when the system must be rebooted, softly or hardly.

    The cache and temp data is lost, the heavily imprinted / written data persists, and the function remains the same but probably some bugs fixed.

  • I'm willing to bet that the "neat programming language" he's referring to is clojure.

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  • Hey Steve, don't give up the day j... oh, no, wait, your day job is prattling bollocks too.

  • OMG, they killed Kenny!!!

    You bastards!!!

  • I think there was a South Park episode on this ..