[93138] in Cypherpunks
Re: (eternity) autonomous agents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Jan 13 16:44:02 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 21:12:56 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Ryan Lackey <rdl@MIT.EDU>
CC: Thomas Womack <thomas.womack@merton.oxford.ac.uk>,
eternity <eternity@internexus.net>,
cypherpunks <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Reply-To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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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