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by rendall 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37358353
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by rendall 3y ago
What does your child do when he is not on the screen? I'm kind of struggling with this with my child (also Finland) (similar age).
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by rendall 3y ago
I upvote downvoted answers. It's nonsense.
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by rendall 3y ago
> You've lost me here. That is disappointing.
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by rendall 3y ago
> In an infinite universe, it'd be surprising if there weren't infinite simulations of universes just like ours. I disagree. Physical laws hold throughout the Universe - or, that is the consensus null hypothesis anyway. In ev
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by rendall 3y ago
The conundrum reminds me of "On Exactitude in Science" by Borges: > …In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire,
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by rendall 3y ago
If I understand the argument, it seems that case is even more unlikely. Not only must one assume that the composition of our Universe just happens to be a super version of one of our own latest technological innovations, one must also take
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by rendall 3y ago
> You can imagine that the universe that simulates us works differently Moreover, you have to make that assumption, or the equivalent assumption that computers can become so advanced that we are the equivalent to their middle ages. M
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by rendall 3y ago
Then I think we agree more than we disagree. My objection to the simulation hypothesis is precisely that it lacks imagination. It's boring. Given all of the infinite imaginative possibilities, that our Universe is simply an instance of
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by rendall 3y ago
> In other words, we have no basis for saying our universe exists, that we have physical existence, that anyone but ourselves exist, or that we exists in time. Sure, I will grant that. This does not warrant a leap from we don't a
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by rendall 3y ago
Your list of how a computer is more like a Universe than a book has three or four items. Now enumerate all the traits that the Universe has that neither a book nor a computer has. Qualia, consciousness, time, gravity, electromagnetism, life
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by rendall 3y ago
Why would you apply the word "simulation" to the activities of 6th-dimensional (or 67th-dimensional or googolplexth-dimensional) entities? Assuming you could even apply human concepts to them like intention, consciousness, or res
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by rendall 3y ago
I want to object that the OP et. al. are not arguing that humans created the Universe, but, riding their argument to its logical extremes, that must be the argument. A quantum computer- or a simulation - is a technology that serves human
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by rendall 3y ago
In my view the Universe is as much a computer as it is a clock or steam engine. That is to say, it has a superficial, poetic resemblance, but is not actually one at all.
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by rendall 3y ago
Ok, but then why is a computer needed at all? Put a brain in a vat and stimulate it with chemicals and electricity to hallucinate that it is in a consistent, coherent Universe.
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by rendall 3y ago
You make an unwarranted logical leap, there. Some laws of physics are computable given sufficient simplifying constraints . It does not follow that a large enough computer therefore can simulate the Universe.
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by rendall 3y ago
From your statement, I'm not sure which position you believe is the bold assumption. The null hypothesis in my view is The Universe is not whatever latest technology we humans have created like a simulation or a quantum computer or
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by rendall 3y ago
I do not agree with the assessment, personally, that it looks like advertising. That said, on mobile, the images could be under the title rather than under the tags, and they could have the same width as the other elements.
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by rendall 3y ago
No. A computer is no more capable of simulating a Universe than is a book. The same arguments apply to books: If a super advanced race were capable of writing such vivid fiction that it created a Universe, then our Universe must be fiction
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by rendall 3y ago
I've seen articles speculating that the Universe is a computer, a simulation, and a hologram. There are serious scholarly speculations that the Universe is a clock, a machine, or a book.
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by rendall 3y ago
How likely would it be that the Universe is an instance of some recent technology that humans created?
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by rendall 3y ago
I suspect that the decline in birth rates in developed nations have to do with raised expectations. The amount of resources and time that parents are expected to devote to each child are quite high.
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by rendall 3y ago
It's true. I was aware of the humor when I replied.
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by rendall 3y ago
That someone could be you!
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by rendall 3y ago
casion, thanks for asking. I was baffled too by the same things you were, and the replies to your question clarified things.
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by rendall 3y ago
I remember when LinkedIn had an anti-pattern of displaying a check list of your gmail contacts and asking which of them you want to connect with. These were all unchecked by default. But under the fold - that is, you needed to scroll down
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by rendall 3y ago
It's true. The original sentence was sarcastic.
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by rendall 3y ago
Definitely worth repeating! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37251323
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by rendall 3y ago
This was the first one I saw: https://generated.photos/human-generator/64d67731568faa0007a...
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by rendall 3y ago
> The first results page of Google never lies... I have something to tell you that will help you solve your problem, but you should sit down first, because it's probably going to make you sad...

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