1st link: and someone felt the need to codify these ways to avoid the dead arm problem? :P
last link: "Dr. Bostrom doesn’t pretend to know which of these hypotheses is more likely, but he thinks none of them can be ruled out. “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.”"
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Date: 2007-08-14 03:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-15 04:05 am (UTC)last link:
"Dr. Bostrom doesn’t pretend to know which of these hypotheses is more likely, but he thinks none of them can be ruled out. “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.”"
hilarious :)