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