<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:09 PM Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>That requires that the travelling individual(s) be aware they are in a simulation, </i></div></blockquote><div><br></div> <font size="4">Preston Greene<span class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> makes the point that if you want to test the efficiency of a new drug it is important that the subjects not know if they are receiving the drug or a </font></span></font><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-imperial,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:20px">placebo<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> in the same way...</span></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font style=""><font color="#333333" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size:20px"><br></span></font></font></span><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span>if our universe has been created by an advanced civilization for research purposes, then it is reasonable to assume that it is crucial to the researchers that we don’t find out that we’re in a simulation. If we were to prove that we live inside a simulation, this could cause our creators to terminate the simulation — to destroy our world.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span></i></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/opinion/sunday/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation-lets-not-find-out.html">Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out</a></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span><br></font><div> </div></div></div>