[ExI] Time travel in simulations

[William Flynn Wallace]

I went to an Al Stewart concert in Birmingham many years ago.  Had bought
his record and really liked it.  He was a complete dud in concert.  Just
him, no talk to the audience.  Might as well have stayed home and played
the LP.  bill w

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:41 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Time travel in simulations
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> >…You guys are just too clever…
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> On the contrary, I am ready to argue that as a species we are not quite
> clever enough.  Very close, but just not quite.  Or not yet.
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> >…What I want to know:  how will we know?  Where would we look for
> evidence?  If the answers include bosons or black holes, just forget it.
> Also- lacking any evidence, someone has come up with odds.  Just how can
> one calculate odds without data?  Or are they just having fun?  bill w
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> There are tantalizing clues.  That whole quantum theory business, that bit
> about a particle disappears here and reappears there at the quantum level,
> that to me has to be evidence (or if not evidence, then indication) that at
> the quantum level, we are looking at some kind of digital simulation.
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> If the universe is a sim at the quantum level, then perhaps it is likewise
> way up to the atomic scale, perhaps that too is a sim dependent on values
> calculated at the smaller scale, and so on up to the cellular level, to our
> scale, to the entire visible universe, to everything, all a big sim.  Then
> you and I are avatars.  Or rather, you are.  I am the only one here.  Or we
> are the avatars, and you are the only one.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfj6f0NldlI
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> Damn that’s a lonely line of reasoning.
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