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Comment author: arundelo 15 June 2012 05:47:40PM *  6 points [-]

"My model of you likes this."

Gabe Newell (of Valve Software) wrote the following in an email to Yanis Varoufakis (an economist):

Here at my company we were discussing an issue of linking economies in two virtual environments (creating a shared currency), and wrestling with some of the thornier problems of balance of payments, when it occurred to me "this is Germany and Greece", a thought that wouldn't have occurred to me without having followed your blog. Rather than continuing to run an emulator of you in my head, I thought I'd check to see if we couldn't get the real you interested in what we are doing.

Edit: And that reminds me of the Reamde character Richard Forthrast giving Zula Forthrast a job at his video game company because of her geology expertise.