[ExI] geometry of solar system

[Darin Sunley]

Macroscopic physics is mostly computable, So in that sense, we're living in
a computer. Kinda.

The bigger problem is the outlook on life betrayed by "lots of boring
people nearly indistinguishable  from the next person."

Every person is a world. Every person has a story that would stop your
heart. If it doesn't seem that way, you aren't looking close enough.

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 11:43 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> You guys talk about sims a lot, and I am a newby at it.  If we are all
> sims, what ever that is, then some god somewhere is making a lot of boring
> people nearly indistinguishable from the next person.
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> Are we all living in a big computer?  Is that the question?
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> I was thinking of Isaac going to a local university.
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> bill w
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> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:26 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
>> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
>> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] geometry of solar system
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>> Pity the poor layperson, who asks "Does the Earth really go around the
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>> Your answer  "Well, it depends on your point of reference."  He doesn't
>> want to hear that.  He wants a yes or no.  Just like the nature/nurture
>> posts of late, it's complicated, but requires us to simplify for the
>> nontech people.  'Well, that's probably the best way for you to think about
>> it."
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>> Now he feels patronized and belittled.
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>> BillW, I spent most of my career as a satellite guidance and control
>> guy.  The software aboard those rigs always assume itself, the satellite is
>> the center of the universe, with the spinning planet revolving about it,
>> with the moon out there doing what it does around the barycenter of the
>> earth/moon system and the and the sun doing what it does about the
>> barycenter of the earth/sun system, with slight corrections for Jupiter
>> (the others don’t matter.)
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>> You can write the equations such that you are the center of the universe
>> and make everything work perfectly.  Quaternions are forgiving that way.
>> Any point of reference is as good as any other.  If one guides one’s own
>> actions, using oneself at the (0,0,0,0) point has its advantages.
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>> Once you ponder that for a while, the notion becomes clearer that we are
>> all sims.
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>> Or rather you are, BillW: we are all just avatars in your orbit in your
>> software consciousness.
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>> Have you any way to disprove that?  Wouldn’t it explain a lotta things?
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