Microsoft thinks it’s a very simple question, it has only two answers, you answer simply yes or ask me again in three days. That’s not rapey at all.

Art knows its on shaky ground.

Will the simulation be them, now it won’t but even in the future I doubt it. Certainly something like you might go on, something other people can not distinguish from you but you will die and somewhere deep down you will know the copy is just a ghoulish pretence. And the natural extension is a future population of dead copies of people talking about dead activities while our machines explore the universe in ways we hoped we would.

Governments will ban anything and say anything rather than say parents should be responsible for their children.

As soon as marketing people say things like ‘focussing on experiences’ you realise they do not know how people use Windows.