Sim Theory

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Fri Oct 7 12:18:16 PDT 2016


On 10/07/2016 12:35 PM, John Newman wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 7, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Georgi Guninski <guninski at 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.


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