On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 4:40 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/4/2013 2:27 PM, Jason Resch wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > So he suffers FPI too. > > > That is my understanding. I'm not sure if I would call it suffering though. 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.
