[ExI] Time travel in simulations

[William Flynn Wallace]

Maybe Stewart finally warmed up.  His B'ham show was somewhere in the 80s.

My choir director at the Methodist church was John Stewart.  Eventually he
became the college's president.  My chairman called me and told me after
the board met, so I called him to congratulate him and he didn't know it!

So at the first convocation we had he mentioned that I was the first to
tell him.  (He never did know how I knew.)  Then I called out 'Mr.
President, you do know that relations between the profs and the pres have
been pretty rough in the past, and so I thought I'd remind you that your
name, Stewart, derives from 'ward of the sty'.  Biggest laugh I ever got.
He just grinned.

bill w

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 5:33 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

> This is surprising Bill.  I went to an Al Stewart concert at the Paul
> Mason winery above Saratoga.  He put on one hell of a show up there,
> connected with the audience, lots of interaction, had unscripted things
> happen such as Stewart made a mistake, Peter White looked over at him, both
> guys kept playing their guitars, Stewart said “Oh he’s right, Peter’s
> right” then they went into the next passage about as seamlessly as if they
> had planned it that way.  The audience loved it.  That was a great show.
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> Stewart is a wine collector.  There he was at the Paul Mason winery.
> During his show he went on and on about this wine and that wine and what he
> was doing with his life.  That was about 20 yrs ago.
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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 20, 2019 2:35 PM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Time travel in simulations
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> 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
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> 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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> Check this:
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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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