Query: Re: Matrioshka Brains

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Tue Jun 10 2003 - 14:58:15 MDT

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    I'm noticing what I consider to be a rather huge surge in
    accesses to my Matrioshka Brain paper. Perhaps an increase
    to over 1000 accesses per month (up from 200-300 most months
    from a historic perspective). [Including interestingly
    several accesses from major IBM research labs...]

    Perhaps this may be a /. secondary effect from Nick
    Bostrom's citations on /. (related to the Matrix and
    whether or not we are in a simulation) that directly
    or indirectly reference this paper. [The way to test
    perhaps is whether Anders' paper on related topics
    (http://www.jetpress.org/volume5/Brains2.pdf)
    has seen a similar spike in interest.]

    But I'm asking the list to see if anyone knows of
    any other direct or indirect mentions of Matrioshka
    Brains that might explain the unexpected interest?

    Related to this does anyone know of a relatively good
    package (preferably open source) that can use to track
    interest in particular URLs from a web server?
    (So one can see when a topic becomes "hot".)

    Thanks,
    Robert



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