[extropy-chat] The world as a Sim ? Irrelevant

[Alfio Puglisi]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Brett Paatsch wrote:

>I reckon (without believing) that it is NOT a sim and could
>NOT easily be a sim.
>
>I think that to entertain the notion that it is is to run the risk of
>repeating (now dead) Pascal's wager and betting the same
>wrong way. Of betting that there is a super-natural being that
>is going to come to the rescue like Santa Claus.

It's exactly the other way around. The biggest concern, when one lives
inside a sim, is the possibility that it will be shut down. Just turned
off and erased, as any computer program.

Ciao,
Alfio