<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">You guys are just too clever. 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</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:59 AM Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com">atymes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<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"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 1:17 AM John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i style="font-size:large;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><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><br></div></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" target="_blank">Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out</a></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Pascal's Wager much? We could just as easily be in an incubator sim where the creators are waiting for us to collectively become clever enough to prove that we are in a sim, with rewards of some kind once that is done - perhaps a next-level sim where we are granted abilities that much less clever folk could not figure out how to use properly. </div></div></div>
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