That is still ridiculous. What evidence would you expect there to be for aliens that is absent, except for totally open public exposure/disclosure?
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Blaze Spinnaker <[email protected]>wrote: > Well, there's an argument that this is the solution Fermi's Paradox. That > is, where are the aliens? Perhaps there aren't any, because the simulator > can only really do earth and that's it. > > It's like the star trek holodeck, you walk outside the deck and you vanish. > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 9:06 PM, John Berry <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The aether, cold fusion, antigravity, free energy is all crazy talk. >> >> But maybe reality is a simulation because some movies were made depicting >> this, well that's totally sensible. >> >> Since that isn't a threat to the status quo. >> >> Of course the pre-pre-pre-pre matrix version of this were the Gnostics. >> >> The problem with the modern version is the the inefficiency is huge. >> I read something saying that all the computing power in the world could >> only calculate some infinitesimally small chunk of space. >> >> Any "Computer" able to simulate a universe of a given size must be >> incalculably larger than that universe. >> >> Really all of this is just an excuse for the fact that the current model >> of physics is seriously flawed since it is missing the major part of the >> picture. >> >> John >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Blaze Spinnaker < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> http://discovermagazine.com/home/issues/2013/dec/09%20do%20we%20live%20in%20the%20matrix#.UpV2cGSOg9w >>> >>> I was thinking that the quantum law that waveforms are not collapsed >>> until observed is a useful law which would come in handy for simulation in >>> terms of load balancing (no need to calculate the waveform until it's >>> actually observed). >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> *Thirteenth Floor … *déjà vu all over again. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> There is no defensible answer to “what is reality”… but if we add >>>> “Inception” to this 2005 list, which includes "Vanilla Sky," the "Matrix" >>>> films, "Minority Report," "Dark City" and "The Cube" … we are left with a >>>> glimpse of something which defies logic. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02551.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03702.html >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> …try to get Christopher Nolan to direct it, if you have the screenplay >>>> ready… >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> *From:* [email protected] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> If we go by Bostrom’s argument, probability dictates that the next >>>> universe will be a dress rehearsal too (bugs included), ala 13th floor. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The interesting thing about Bostrom’s is that it also applies to the >>>> idea that we (as a species) came from another planet. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >
