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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:03 am
sure sure >>
I will take the site address
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:13 am
The philosopher Nick Bostrom investigated the possibility that we may be living in a simulation. A simplified version of his argument is:
i. It is possible that a civilization could create a computer simulation which contains individuals with artificial intelligence. ii. Such a civilization would likely run many—say billions—of these simulations (just for fun; for research, etc.) iii. A simulated individual inside the simulation wouldn’t know that it’s inside a simulation—it’s just going about its daily business in what it considers the “real world”. Then the ultimate question is—if one accepts that points 1-2-3 are at least possible, which of the following is more likely?
a. We are the one civilization out there in the universe that will eventually develop the ability to run AI simulations? Or, b. We are one of the billions of simulations that has run? (Remember point iii.) In greater detail, his argument attempts to prove the trichotomy, that:
either 1. intelligent races will never reach a level of technology where they can run simulations of reality so detailed they can be mistaken for reality; or 2. races who do reach such a level do not tend to run such simulations; or 3. we are almost certainly living in such a simulation.
Bostrom's argument uses the premise that given sufficiently advanced technology, it is possible to simulate entire inhabited planets or even larger habitats or even entire universes as quantum simulations in time/space pockets, including all the people on them, on a computer, and that simulated people can be fully conscious, and are as much persons as non-simulated people.
If we then assume that the human race could reach such a technological level without destroying themselves in the process (i.e. we deny the first hypothesis); and that once we reached such a level we would still be interested in history, the past, and our ancestors, and that there would be no legal or moral strictures on running such simulations (we deny the second hypothesis)—then
it is likely that we would run a very large number of so-called ancestor simulations; and that, by the same line of reasoning, many of these simulations would in turn run other sub-simulations, and so on; and that given the fact that right now it is impossible to tell whether we are living in one of the vast number of simulations or the original ancestor universe, the likelihood is that the former is true. Assumptions as to whether the human race (or another intelligent species) could reach such a technological level without destroying themselves depend greatly on the value of the Drake equation, which gives the number of intelligent technological species communicating via radio in a galaxy at any given point in time. The expanded equation looks to the number of posthuman civilizations that ever would exist in any given universe. If the average for all universes, real or simulated, is greater than or equal to one such civilization existing in each universe's entire history, then odds are rather overwhelmingly in favor of the proposition that the average civilization is in a simulation, assuming that such simulated universes are possible and such civilizations would want to run such simulations.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:30 am
Valkiron Dr Entropy yay! Maby me and Noir can be on a squad and we can snuff out Valkrion for his demon blaugh wow, I should read the ooc more often, it looks like I have a hit on my head. Its only for the progression of the Alliance. Nothing personal. You understand right? xD @ Pawn: I told you tons of people had them rofl
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:19 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:07 am
mornin sage
oh yeah, I posted
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:32 am
Quix: Good Morning to you as well. Okay, I am going to reply in a minute in Hidden Cloud. Then I am going to take a shower and return "American Gangster" that I rented.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:35 am
Wow... The ghost elites are behind on things... well I'll guess they'll find out all of their missions lead them to one person...me.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:40 am
and your being led straight to me. . . and my open arms
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:45 am
The funniest part of the movie is when Frank was eating with his bro's
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:48 am
Quixilver05 and your being led straight to me. . . and my open arms lol Koujin might, but not Adonis, he's too good looking to be in the Alliance cool lol jk.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:58 am
Good morning everyone. How are you all doing? mrgreen
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:12 am
Noir: Do not worry, things will be unfolding in time.
Quix: I replied... I have a feeling that this is probably going to be the most fun that I have had RPing in some time.
Tigerr: Yeah.
Bone: Good Morning. Me and Quix are back to our old ways.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:15 am
klamachpin Noir: Do not worry, things will be unfolding in time. Quix: I replied... I have a feeling that this is probably going to be the most fun that I have had RPing in some time. Tigerr: Yeah. Bone: Good Morning. Me and Quix are back to our old ways. Well that's interesting Sage. I wonder who will win this spar... That is if I don't intervene. But I must speak with you Sage so whenever you think would be a good time for my character to jump in and stop you both in midst the fight so I may speak with you about a few things. mrgreen
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:23 am
Yawn...morning peoplez. Just dropping by to say hi. heart
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:29 am
yoshi_mitsuko Yawn...morning peoplez. Just dropping by to say hi. heart Hello Mitsuko. How are you feeling today? mrgreen
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