On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:13 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/4/2013 10:24 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:17 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Theory? I am betting neither Clarke the writer, nor Shermer, the Atheist, >> has put a lot of intellectual efforts in their perspectives/statements. >> Clarke was aiming at human perspective. Shermer was trying to shoot down >> the attitudes of the religious, by re-phrasing Clarke's Law. Could God >> be Drelb, the famous hyper-intelligence from the Sombrero Galaxy. If this >> is so, what can we do about it? >> > > If Drelb is hyper-intelligent, it can simulate all of Earth and learn > everything about us and everything we do. > > > That seems inconsistent with the idea that "we" are infinitely many > threads of computation in multiverses. FPI would make us random to Drelb > too. > There are also infinite numbers of Drelb though too. Drelb, by constructing a "physical replica" of Earth, is in a sense is running a quantum emulation of all possibilities of Earth, and Drelb, by observing it, is split into as many copies as there are possibilities for the simulation to diverge. Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
