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[WP] In 2027 it starts globally with basement dwellers dying off after terrible seizures correlated with excessive media consumption. Scientists discover it's caused by the mind's apparent storage limit. Distress and info-phobia break out as everyone fears reaching their limit. Era of Quiet Begins.

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[WP] In a future where graphics are hyperreal, NeuralLinks exist, and AI can simulate Turing passable personalities, people start choosing their simulations and dream lives over real life. Many have even gone pro, forgetting the world entirely.

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[WP] The world is a computer simulation. Humans being humans, one man, learned yet profoundly naive, causes a buffer overflow giving him access to the universe’s memory. Naturally, he messes with it, changing random values. A couple stars collapse, nothing major, then strange things begin to happen.

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[WP] In a future where graphics are hyperreal, NeuralLinks exist, and AI can simulate Turing passable personalities, people start choosing their simulations and dream lives over real life. Many have even gone pro, forgetting the world entirely. How does the rest of humanity react and resist?

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[WP] Billionaire buys a large city skyscraper where he establishes a self-sufficient commune full of researchers, engineers, and other intellectual elites, after reaching a new tech singularity the lower floors are bricked in, the public doesn’t know how to respond.

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[WP] In 2027 it starts globally with basement dwellers dying off after terrible seizures correlated with excessive media consumption. Scientists discover it's caused by the mind's apparent storage limit. Distress and info-phobia break out as everyone fears reaching their limit. Era of Quiet Begins.	1129
[WP] In a future where graphics are hyperreal, NeuralLinks exist, and AI can simulate Turing passable personalities, people start choosing their simulations and dream lives over real life. Many have even gone pro, forgetting the world entirely.	26
[WP] The world is a computer simulation. Humans being humans, one man, learned yet profoundly naive, causes a buffer overflow giving him access to the universe’s memory. Naturally, he messes with it, changing random values. A couple stars collapse, nothing major, then strange things begin to happen.	23
[WP] In a future where graphics are hyperreal, NeuralLinks exist, and AI can simulate Turing passable personalities, people start choosing their simulations and dream lives over real life. Many have even gone pro, forgetting the world entirely. How does the rest of humanity react and resist?	2
[WP] Billionaire buys a large city skyscraper where he establishes a self-sufficient commune full of researchers, engineers, and other intellectual elites, after reaching a new tech singularity the lower floors are bricked in, the public doesn’t know how to respond.	1