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Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 12:36 pm |
| Tags: 2nd life metaverse, offbeat, potpourri, tech, computer simulation, john tierney, metaverse, nick bostrom, oxford university, philosophy, the new york times |
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Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at Oxford University, and has convinced John Tierney of the New York Times that we might just be playthings in someone else's version of Second Life. Tierney writes "I hadn't imagined that the omniscient, omnipotent creator of the heavens and earth could be an advanced version of a guy who spends his weekends building model railroads or overseeing video-game worlds like the Sims. 'But now it seems quite possible. In fact, if you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom's, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else's computer simulation. My gut feeling, and it's nothing more than that, he says, is that there's a 20 percent chance we're living in a computer simulation. Possible? Of course. Deeply disturbing? Even more so. All the human emotion, impetus to do good, connecting and interacting reduced to the a concept where we are under the control of others in an [ Full article ] |
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