Sounds good Ken I will chec it out, thx.

Scott

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 2:44 PM Ken Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> For SF fans or Philosophy majors try the FX/Hulu TV series "Devs
> <https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/devs>".  From the NYTimes:
>
> *"In “Devs,” ... a messianic tech founder devises a supercomputer that can
> simulate the past and predict the future, based on principles of physical
> determinism."*
>
> Artfully filmed, it imagines a computer with the astounding capacity to
> "know" every moment in time. Extrapolating backward or forward, it can show
> these events, for example, Jesus on the cross.  This presumes, however,
> that all events are predetermined, that is, there is no free will -
> everything that has happened or will happen is immutable.  Or is it?
>
> Unique to the "computer run amok" genre this computer is not out of control
> but in fact does exactly what developers have programmed it to do.
>
> Excellent.
>
> Ken
>
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