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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

request you to please send me an invite.. raghav305@gmail.com

Thanks,

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

#114

This is somewhat alarming for my team as we've been working on very similar stuff for a while now (albeit for iOS). Oh well, full steam ahead, I suppose.

I'm curious, how are you dealing with cheaters via spoofed GPS locations?

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get what you are saying, but I disagree. If there were millions of invisible unicorns, surely we'd occassionally bump in to one. Azaleas would go missing. With the right technology, it might be possible to harvest them for ivory or meat or hoofs for glue. If we live in a simulation, there may be experiments that would demonstrate the fact. There may be ways to 'hack' the simulation and break all kinds of physical l…

By "invisible unicorn" I meant a unicorn that doesn't have any effect on the physical world. Our universe could behave, in some ways, like a computer simulation (but the question is, in what specific ways?). But it is similar to light rays behaving like waves. Which is different from light rays being equivalent to waves.

That sounds suspiciously like quantum, it does.

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

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I find it more than a little scary that, coming from a company with as much influence as Google, the subliminal message here is that pro-technology people are "enlightened", and anyone else is "resistance".

And to me 'enlightened' sounds like hippy-religious-rubbish so I'd probably immediately plumb for resistance.

With games like this you need to have both "sides" have an attractive "we're the goodies" pitch. I thought it was rather clever naming since I think I could argue myself into either camp quite easily.

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

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post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Reality hackers? Let's badger Charlie Stross to write a novel about it. :)

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

#120

[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

Hey,

Looking forward to the invitation code: sherjilozair@gmail.com

Thanks!

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