On 6/14/2016 3:15 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > There's a difference between their computational model embedded in there > somewhere.
There is. Tyson's odds are his personal opinion while Musk's "odds" are him pulling numbers out of his ass to make catchy sound bites for the media. The simulation hypothesis isn't testable, at least not by any measures currently available to us, and the author of the original paper knows it. It's a philosophical argument. You can read more about it here: http://www.simulation-argument.com/ -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
