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Mick Mac

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They referenced Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and interviewed a professor from Oxford.


Technology is now so advanced that we could create civilizations of millions of people who we observe.

Our personal worlds that we control.


Evan Davies asks if it matters if we are in fact in a simulation or not.

Mick Mac

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My son has a Sims world RD. The Oxford University Professor thinks he could be the type to create a personal universe.


What is key apparently, is whether these civilizations learn to pro create.


Surely we recognize the precedent for this "theology"


Ps. Man United are trophy less so far in rorys new sims world.

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I didn't see Newsnight, but I believe Elon Musk's argument is that technology is advancing at such a rate, that it's only a matter of time before a virtual digital world is indistinguishable from the real thing. He specifically references gaming technology, so one assumes we're talking about computing power, as well as our own intellectual capacity to model real-world environments, physics, "intelligence", evolution, etc.


And once such an artificial world is possible, the autonomous agents within that "world" may then eventually develop the capacity to develop their own technology - maybe even their own virtual worlds. And so on and so on, and you therefore end up with N levels of virtual worlds... the "top-level" ones being the worlds still too primitive to create new worlds. And in EM's opinion, the likeliness of us living in the "base-level" (i.e. "real" world) is miniscule.


My opinion - the likeliness of humans (or any race/civilisation) lasting long enough to develop this kind of technology is zero. And you'd also have to question the motivation to create something this powerful in the first place... the resources required by the ultimate hosts would be unimaginable...

Mick Mac

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I was brought up to believe (wrongly) that God created the earth and watches all that we do in our lives. We will be judged by him.


What goes around comes around. Lots of people believe that their life was created by some greater being.


The people who believe this are in the majority on this earth.


There is the irony?

TheArtfulDogger

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I always love seeing the futurama episode where Bender meets God after a colony of mini beings develops on his body, developed civilisation before eventually destroying themselves in nuclear amargeddon !


Very ironic as both blended and God agree that ?When you do things right, people won?t be sure you?ve done anything at all.?

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maxxi Wrote:

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> Sue Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Isn't this what The Matrix was about?

> >

> > I can't see it makes any difference. Dreams are

> > real when you're having one.

>

>

> Sue? Sue!? ... it's no good, I can't wake her...



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