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Have you considered, "How many roads must a man walk down?"? Seriously, though, it's not unthinkable to me that the simulation argument is right, and that one

Have you considered, "How many roads must a man walk down?"? Seriously, though, it's not unthinkable to me that the simulation argument is right, and that one of the reasons why simulations might be created is to explore questions that the parent civilization is curious about and needs minds of a certain character or experiential background to examine. We're basically doing that right now, after all, with things like AlphaGo being created to 'understand' the game of Go at a level we don't. At some point, the quotes around 'understand' will not be apt, and AlphaGo++ will be able to put its understanding into terms that will be useful to us.

mmjaa 10y ago
Its "whats God's phone number?" you filthy casual ..
- jnicholasp 10y ago
  I don't recall that being in the books, though maybe it was in the movie or radio show or something. But "How many roads must a man walk down?" is the 'Question' that the pan-dimensional mice who commissioned the Earth decided to run with to save their careers and possibly lives, after the Earth was destroyed 5 minutes before outputting the final result of its multi-million year computation to determine what the actual Question of life, the universe, and everything, was. In short: come at me, noob ;-)
  - mmjaa 10y ago
    >>"You just let the machines get on with the adding up," warned Majikthise, "and we'll take care of the eternal verities thank you very much. You want to check your legal position you do mate. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job aren't we? I mean what's the use of our sitting up half the night arguing that there may or may not be a God if this machine only goes and gives us his bleeding phone number the next morning?"

mmjaa 10y ago

Its "whats God's phone number?" you filthy casual ..

jnicholasp 10y ago
I don't recall that being in the books, though maybe it was in the movie or radio show or something. But "How many roads must a man walk down?" is the 'Question' that the pan-dimensional mice who commissioned the Earth decided to run with to save their careers and possibly lives, after the Earth was destroyed 5 minutes before outputting the final result of its multi-million year computation to determine what the actual Question of life, the universe, and everything, was. In short: come at me, noob ;-)
- mmjaa 10y ago
  >>"You just let the machines get on with the adding up," warned Majikthise, "and we'll take care of the eternal verities thank you very much. You want to check your legal position you do mate. Under law the Quest for Ultimate Truth is quite clearly the inalienable prerogative of your working thinkers. Any bloody machine goes and actually finds it and we're straight out of a job aren't we? I mean what's the use of our sitting up half the night arguing that there may or may not be a God if this machine only goes and gives us his bleeding phone number the next morning?"