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   Ned Ludd  wrote:   
   >   
   > "Tang Huyen"  wrote in message   
   > news:f56a8c2a-4ee4-5ee0-f014-27b991e35299@gmail.com...   
   >> On 10/17/2016 9:45 AM, Ned Ludd wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Ok.  Maybe with the subtitle "Raising Kids in Vats"?   
   >>   
   >> Ok.  Maybe with the subtitle "Raising Minds in Vats"?   
   >> That way, they are perhaps more pliable, more susceptible   
   >> to reform, specially en masse. Factories of lookalike minds.   
   >> Reprogrammable even at a distance, like with software   
   >> updates.   
   >>   
   >> The leading edge of science! Fiction turned to reality!   
   >>   
   >> Tang Huyen   
   >>   
   >   
   >  I kid you not.  This is from last week's New Yorker article   
   > titled "Adding a Zero", about a guy with more money than   
   > he knows what to do with.  It concerns the idea that if life   
   > can be fully simulated in a computer, then the number of   
   > simulations of life will almost certainly GREATLY outnumber   
   > examples of actual life, by a factor of thousands or millions,   
   > implying that we are probably living in a simulation...   
   > ---   
   > Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation   
   > hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact   
   > fabricated in a computer; two tech billionaires have gone so far as to   
   > secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation. To   
   > Altman, the danger stems not from our possible creators but from our own   
   > creations. “These phones already control us,” he told me, frowning at his   
   > iPhone SE. “The merge has begun—and a merge is our best scenario. Any   
   > version without a merge will have conflict: we enslave the A.I. or it   
   > enslaves us. The full-on-crazy version of the merge is we get our brains   
   > uploaded into the cloud. I’d love that,” he said. “We need to level up   
   > humans, because our descendants will either conquer the galaxy or extinguish   
   > consciousness in the universe forever. What a time to be alive!”   
   > ---   
   >   
   > Ned   
   >   
   >   
      
   Yeah, that's some spooky shit, people have been reading about it in books   
   for decades.   
      
   What's really spooky is when you start trying to talk to people and find   
   out they're furniture, analogous to the simulated-beings in the article.   
   There are already more of them than us imo.  Fucksake they have a candidate   
   for the US Presidency.   
      
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