On 10/07/2016 12:35 PM, John Newman wrote:
On Oct 7, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Georgi Guninski <guninski@guninski.com> wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 12:49:35PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: Many believe that we live in a computer simulation. But it takes a billionaire and his money to ask scientists to help break us out of the simulation. ...
lol, so billionaires are asking to root the virtual machine, get root on the host OS and possibly own the operator too? (this scales) lol
And then what ? It's not like there is any chance we would actually be breaking out of the sim into earth prime... if we are in a sim, it's sims all the way down....
I figure it's best to ignore the implications of the simulation hypothesis. There's nothing to be done about it.
So hey, I'm rereading Egan's _Diaspora_. Synchronicity :) It's macrospheres all the way down.