It's been brought up before (possibly on here).

The government created the Internet to study us and see how we react to different situations?

All these forums were previously programmed. You guys arn't real, just givin' me different situations.

Same with you, etc.

So... ur' thoughts on this unlikely event?

Well they would have to build a supercomputer so powerful it's beyond cosmic thought. I can't imagine the amount of variables and scenarios a program would have to take account to even work on such a large scale.

Not neccessarily.
have you ever heard of the 'alicebot'. AliceBot
It's pretty much an AI driven chatter bot.
Just do some advancements to it, and you'd have yourself an AI Moderator

Yeah but can it start a meaningful conversation, can it agree with somebody can it disagree can it be nice or a total dick on its own. How will it react to different cultures and ideas, can it converse with multiple users, etc, etc, etc, etc its just too much.

Alice sounds like a great program I'll check it out later. But it is still limited to its programing, it can't go beyond it if I were to communicate or respond to it in a way it was not programed to.

well, if the government used the internet to study us, they could stop terrorist attacks and conspiracies that have been un-covered

Well, if none of you were real and this was all just a simulation by the government, why would they create a topic like this to make me question the existance of the internet?

Anyway, since this is a big conspiracy theory, i'm going to move it to the correct section.
We don't like it when things get out of order. It mucks up the program.

as much as i want to say that the government has better things to do with their time, i know they don't.
anyhow, how exactly would that work? if it's a home computer, sure, you can get a street address from an IP address and find out who lives there, but what about public computers? (i.e. the library, schools, colleges, workplaces) how would they know who was on?

The Keyboards DNA scan your fingertips.

ermm...the keyboard i'm typing on is FAR from that advanced. besides, if it's the keyboard monitoring my activity, that would mean that the college i go to is monitoring my reactions to different situations, not the gov't.

well, so why only internet then? ewerything is created by goverment for you

It's made to look like it's not that advanced.

you WOULD come up with something like that, burn.

and you still didn't respond to my statement: if it's the keyboard monitoring my activity, that would mean that the college i go to is monitoring my reactions to different situations, not the gov't.

The college is a fiction set up by the government so that you would believe the internet on the computers there is real so the government could monitor your actions through the internet.



What's that supposed to me, i would come up with something like that? I never talk about consipracies, i'm one of the sane ones.

no, i meant that you would come up with something funny like that.

and BTW, there are no sane people on UM.

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I don't think it was moved succsussfully

In answer to ur' first paragraph:

To trick you into thinking the way you think is incorret to the tricking of the tricks of the mind

Or something along that line.

Oh, it did move correctly

Nvm

LOL.. This is so cool.. I hate to tell you, It's real and Bill Gates did get into trouble for this very thing.. LOL... he had a secreat data base the government busted him on.. It made the news alot about three years ago.. One of his employees..told after they got fired...

OOH
do you have a source with the story?

I'v always wondered if I am an alien abtuctee in sort some of alien simulation, kinda like the matrix world. And no one else is real, they are just seeing how a typical human reacts to certain situations. Because how can I know for sure any of you are real, how can any of you know I'm real?

Unlikely unless the real world is set up also... I've talked to people over the internet, then the next day talked to them in real life about what we talked about the day before. To account for this, they'd have to be in on the whole thing too.

I mean like, no one else is real. They are simulations. I don't really take this theory seriously I just ponder its possibility from time to time.

FINALLY!! Someone else noticed it. I'm glad I'm not the only crazy one here!!

Since your rolling one up man, why not pass it around

How do you explain people who know eachother from the internet, meeting up?

You mean I'm being monitored due to my internet activities??



*shuts down computer and runs to hide*


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But on a serious note, this is quite interesting to ponder!

Isis, do you have a link to that bit of news story?

GEE!!! I WONDER WHAT COULD HAVE INSPIRED THIS IDEA OF A COMPUTER WORLD THAT EVERYONE THOUGHT WAS REAL BUT IN ACTUALITY, IT WASN'T REAL!!!!!????????

You are truly a visionary of creative thought, Thread Starter.

I cant help but think Area is being sarcastic

Calm yourself! please


i think the theory has merit......except that would mean my wife was in on it and married me only to get closer to my knowledge about scottish men things...like...erm.........er....... . . .

no she proberly just loves me



Rogue

Robots.



And I don't get Areas' sarcasm O_o

All I've got to say that if this IS a government creation, it certainly wasn't done by the US government. It's just not that organized.

I don't think The Matrix is the first "We are just pawns in someone else's creation" story ever.

Do you mean Jennrose and I aren't real? Oh poo...and we've had such fun together. Sorry Jenn, nice fantasy...



I'm not mocking you, Pharoah...I wouldn't put it past the government to try something like that.

Does that mean my boyfriend is a robot?

Damn...

*wonders where the on/off button is*

That would come down to have you met him in person, or on the net. I might as well be a comp just saying what you want to hear or not want to hear. Do you like the color blue? NO ok into data bank, do you like roses? yes. ok into data bank. A computer can get the better of you,but it's a human mind behind it.

It the comp or programer can take your pesonal trats and use them, making you think you are taking to a human,and on the net chatting you could be talking to anybody,and you won't know who,scary. This is me because i can say funny bannana thong and a comp might not see that as "real" so chat away, but if I were to say BIO weapon,then a flag might go up. opps I might be in trouble

Well without sounding rude I guess they don't need a super computer to monitor us to see what the vast majority is getting up to with all these porn sites everywhere, as what ever you type there seems to be a hidden link to these sites. Maybe I’m just subconsciously miss typing things?

Saying I'm not real on here would mean that I'm not real in reality either. Keep in mind, I know what I'm posting.

Or do you mean its a different scenario for each person? Wow...


What a stupid theory.

I think it's a little far fetched that the internet is just a program. But, don't think the government can't "listen in" on all your conversations. Ever hear of ECHELON? Here is a link.

http://www.nerdshit.com/archive/2004/05/29/is_eschalon_col/

if it was a program..that means.. YOUR ALL ROBOTS!!! NOOOOO

i knew it was to good to be true

Hey come on, just because it's completely impossible and becomes fairly redundant with out any real conclusion doesn't make it stupid.

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Well it's still fun to talk about.

What would happen if the internet WAS REAL?!??!?@?!@?!@?!@@?!?413431

leik we'd totally be chattin to eachother on a discussion bored!!111!!11 oh sh** wai

well i would not be at all suprised after whats been going on around here lately!
First i get a demand from ebay asking me for money on the account I supposidly set up...then amazon sends me mail asking the same...I would nt be so alarmed but its not true...but how did they get my addy and name?
last month we had a phone call (we were out at the time)..the number stored that had called in was our home number...how could this be? Then we checked messages to our suprise a robotic sounding voice said"on way home"...the time that the call came in was 5 45 and that was the exact time that the other call had come in with our number on it but what was real spooky was that 5 45 is the time we set off from shopping to come home.

Nothing suprises me now

If the Internet wasn't real, then everyone posting objections---wouldn't be, since they would all be machines.
unless--said machines were programmed with emotions. (but that's another thread)

The Internet is real...


...but I'm not.

In fact you are in a cardboard box under the stairs with electrodes poking in all different kinds of holes, making all this up.

OMG. You are totally freaky sweetness. But very powerful topic. Wow.

What if the internet was Real?

And the government uses it to study us...
Much more plausible and um useful for them and us. Woudn't you say?
Studies is a bit stong. How about they monitor us...

Am I realy posting this?
My fingers are pressing keys down... I think... hehe

I'm just a figment of your imagination.

That's why my tongue feels like cardboard and i sense people walking over my head all the time.......