Comments on: Meta Virtuality http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:06:02 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: » Sunday linkfest and some breakfast conversation M is for Myg http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/#comment-1830 » Sunday linkfest and some breakfast conversation M is for Myg Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:07:54 +0000 http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/#comment-1830 [...] Aenea blogged about John Tierney’s piece in the New York Times in which he talks about Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom’s assertion that there is a 20 percent chance we’re living in a computer simulation, and being a lawyer and a United States congressman, Tierney says he has a “gut feeling” the odds are higher than that. Talk about some heavy bullshit–but at the core of Bostrom’s arguments are some worthwhile concepts and more rigorous logic than Tierney brings to the table. [...] [...] Aenea blogged about John Tierney’s piece in the New York Times in which he talks about Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom’s assertion that there is a 20 percent chance we’re living in a computer simulation, and being a lawyer and a United States congressman, Tierney says he has a “gut feeling” the odds are higher than that. Talk about some heavy bullshit–but at the core of Bostrom’s arguments are some worthwhile concepts and more rigorous logic than Tierney brings to the table. [...]

]]> By: Alexander Burgess http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/#comment-1768 Alexander Burgess Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:53:27 +0000 http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/#comment-1768 It's turtles all the way down. It’s turtles all the way down.

]]> By: Kitten Lulu http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/#comment-1754 Kitten Lulu Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:40:23 +0000 http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/#comment-1754 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHGNNaiLTQU&mode=related&search= (According to some forecasts) A (cheap enough) computer with the same computational power of the whole human race will happen sooner than most think, within our lifetime. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHGNNaiLTQU&mode=related&search=

(According to some forecasts) A (cheap enough) computer with the same computational power of the whole human race will happen sooner than most think, within our lifetime.

]]> By: Aenea http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/#comment-1751 Aenea Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:33:38 +0000 http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/#comment-1751 @ Vint: You stumped me on this one, but (as always) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia brought me up to speed</a>. So in that allegory, we would all be the prisoners staring at the shadow on the wall? Perhaps Bostrom then is that first prisoner released who's come back to the cave? Argh, my head still hurts... @ Vint:

You stumped me on this one, but (as always) Wikipedia brought me up to speed.

So in that allegory, we would all be the prisoners staring at the shadow on the wall? Perhaps Bostrom then is that first prisoner released who’s come back to the cave?

Argh, my head still hurts…

]]> By: Vint Falken http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/#comment-1750 Vint Falken Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:08:12 +0000 http://aeneaideas.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/meta-virtuality/#comment-1750 Did anybody rebuild Plato's cava in Second Life already? =d Did anybody rebuild Plato’s cava in Second Life already? =d

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