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Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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[Edit: Looks like I currently have no invites left. As I get more, I'll give them out and update this post.] I think I have a few invites to give out. Let me know if you'd like one. P.S. I'm Resistance using the name drew

I'd love one if you get some more. My email is in my profile.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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It seems to me that, with the ubiquity of smartphones and how powerful they're becoming, it's only a matter of time before there's a constantly-evolving digital facsimile of the real world. We've started to see how, for example, many geo-tagged photos can be reconstructed into a pointcloud (see Microsoft's Photosynth amongst others), and how everyone is now carrying a location-aware camera-computer in their pockets..…

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Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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post #19

It seems to me that, with the ubiquity of smartphones and how powerful they're becoming, it's only a matter of time before there's a constantly-evolving digital facsimile of the real world. We've started to see how, for example, many geo-tagged photos can be reconstructed into a pointcloud (see Microsoft's Photosynth amongst others), and how everyone is now carrying a location-aware camera-computer in their pockets..…

Didn't you know? We are living in a simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html (Probably)

"We are in a simulation" is a meaningless statement. It's like saying that there are millinons of invisible unicorns on Earth.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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The name is a surprise. The Ingres database is still kicking, it's an OSS project that's was a commercial product for 20 years before that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)

I doubt this is a reference to a piece of software. "Ingress" also means "to enter", the opposite of "egress".

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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The name is a surprise. The Ingres database is still kicking, it's an OSS project that's was a commercial product for 20 years before that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)

But "ingress" is also an English language word, with a definition unrelated to what you're talking about.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't you know? We are living in a simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html (Probably)

"We are in a simulation" is a meaningless statement. It's like saying that there are millinons of invisible unicorns on Earth.

Nitpick: "We are in a perfect and undetectable simulation" is a meaningless statement. If e.g. someone found a privilege escalation in our reality's VM that would be quite meaningful.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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[Edit: Looks like I currently have no invites left. As I get more, I'll give them out and update this post.] I think I have a few invites to give out. Let me know if you'd like one. P.S. I'm Resistance using the name drew

Doh! Wanted to comment here earlier but my Hacker News app on Android doesn't allow comments!

I'm rich.bradshaw on ye old gmail if anyone has any invites left!

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