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1998-01-13 - Re: (eternity) autonomous agents

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From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Ryan Lackey <rdl@mit.edu>
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Reply To: <199801131551.KAA23584@the-great-machine.mit.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1998-01-13 21:20:49 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 05:20:49 +0800

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From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 05:20:49 +0800
To: Ryan Lackey <rdl@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: (eternity) autonomous agents
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Ryan Lackey wrote:
> BTW, I don't really like the overly negative names for Eternity, like
> "inferno", or whatever.  I like to think my data is *good* data, deserving
> of a better fate.  Elysium, perhaps?   Or just use "eternity"
> in place of "eternityspace" (a word I never should have used, since it means
> the same thing), as in "upload these files to eternity", "the collection
> of files currently stored in eternity", etc.  Little danger of confusion
> with pedestrian meanings of the word eternity, too, I think, and there
> is no real reason to draw a distinction between eternity the location for
> documents and eternity the overall system for creating such a space.

How about "perpetuity"? Nice and neutral. "Stored in perpetuity" is a
concept everyone understands, too. :-)

Cheers,

Ben.

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