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We might live in a computer simulation and it might be too computationally expensive for our simulators to simulate our world post-singularity. That's an awful
by jkush 19y ago
We might live in a computer simulation and it might be too computationally expensive for our simulators to simulate our world post-singularity.
That's an awful lot of "mights".
- mynameishere 19y agoYou know, I always figured that a computer-simulated world would have smart compression techniques. Thus, the massive quantity of electrons flying around necessary for a brain impulse, for instance, only "exists" when someone does an MRI (or whatever tool they use for that sort of thing). Otherwise, a reference to "pleasure" or "pain" is passed into the perceptions.
- byrneseyeview 19y agoSo the Singularity is when we abstract out all the stuff that only exists to trick us into thinking we've evolved from more primitive beings?
- muerdeme 19y agoAt least he was careful to use "might." They are soothsaying, after all. Luckily, he won't be able to say "I told you so" when our universe runs out of memory.
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