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Re:The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It by olavk on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @03:37PM (#17411124)
I don't think any scientist should take it seriously. It is at the level of "maybe this is all just a dream". Well perhaps, but we have no way of knowing. It is an unfalsifiable hypothesis so it is outside the scope of science.
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Re:The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It by strange_quark on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:17PM (#17411467)
It's basically religion but with none of the morality attached to it. No wonder so many SV billionaires like the idea.
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Re:The Universe Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It by olavk on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:43AM (#17416761)
So like "the singularity" and "transhumanism" - millennia-old religious ideas, repackaged for a technological age.
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