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Is Our Universe a Computer Simulation?
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In 2003 Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom raised the question: Are you living in a computer simulation? Now scientists say they can test whether that’s the case or not. Bostrom posited a compelling argument that at least one of the three following propositions is true: 1. The human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a ‘posthuman’ stage; 2. Any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); 3. We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. Martin Savage a physics professor at the...lation serious.
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Re: Is Our Universe a Computer Simulation?
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It does, to some degree. It doesn't matter for life, but exploiting the fact that we are simulated could definitely be interesting. I for one am looking forward to the first C3, ShmooCon or DEF CON talks on pententesting the fucking universe!
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Re: Is Our Universe a Computer Simulation?
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If it were a mere simulation i want cheatcodes
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Re: Is Our Universe a Computer Simulation?
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In 2003 Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom raised the question: Are you living in a computer simulation? Now scientists say they can test whether that’s the case or not.
Scientists' answer was : If our universe is a computer simulation created by a super civilization , sooner or later some parameters should be reset You can simulate on your PC the system sun_earth but in the long run you lose the control From the big bang onwards , however, the so called " universal constants " appear to be....constant thus we dont live in a PC simulation, scientists said
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