Also, it does lend credence to concepts of immortality. One goal of transhumanists is backing up your 'brain'. If you die, you just need to reload it into a simulation.
On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, I dunno, if you model the universe as a simulation you can attempt to > make some assumptions about how the simulation substrate is structured. > Once you have that, you can think about ways of 'piercing the veil'. You > can also leverage the model to make more consistent theories about way > things work. > > I don't think it's an idle speculation. > > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> *http://www.techtimes.com/articles/152927/20160423/universe-probably-simulation-neil-degrasse-tyson.htm* >> <http://www.techtimes.com/articles/152927/20160423/universe-probably-simulation-neil-degrasse-tyson.htm> >> >> The headline is an attention grabber: >> >> *Universe Is Probably A Simulation*: Neil DeGrasse Tyson >> >> Tyson is a product of television’s need to put a smiling PC face on >> science, and is almost as much of a mock-traditionalist (and pompous >> luddite wrt LENR) as is Michio Kaku and a few others. However, they know >> how to surf a few extreme notions, so long as they can find a niche which >> captures >> the imagination and is impossible to falsify. >> >> Tyson may have gotten his head out of his… err… blind spot, long enough >> to make an interesting call on the matrix theme which comes up here from >> time to time. In another part of the Universe, his doppelganger is >> probably smiling to a camera, playing up the cold fusion discovery. >> >> We need to get hold of that Sim code and reboot. BTW, here is a seriously >> pompous explanation of the Sim-concept from Bostrom, who has his head so >> far in the black hole that he fails to mention the movie, as if it were >> some kind of lowbrow pandering that doesn’t really matter very much to >> geniuses in ivory towers. >> >> *http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html* >> <http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html> >> >> BTW – as to the Wachowskis – they were lucky with the Matrix, not good. >> The sequels were among the worst films in the history of Hollywood… but >> heck, I’d rather be lucky than good on most days… wouldn’t you? >> >> Think: Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He was on a business trip to Hiroshima on >> August 6th, 1945. As he arrived, a bomb named “little boy” blew up a few >> miles away. He was shielded by the train. After spending a night in an >> air raid shelter, unhurt but shaken, Yamaguchi went home. To Nagasaki. He >> survived that one too. The original meme model for: “been there, done >> that.” >> >> As for putting a pretty face on the less explosive science of LENR, I’ll >> stick with Julian Schwinger or Brian Josephson if a prominent name just >> has to attach to every belief structure… instead of Luddite talking heads, >> pandering to publically funded constituencies in Big-Science… Hear, hear… >> More money for LHC! >> >> … but occasionally picking up on an outlier... for the PR effect. >> >> That’s why we love out boob-tube. >> >> >
