What do we reckon this could be then?

I think that's what it is. I spend 12 hours a day every day on it and I'm always on my own.

 

Nah....that's porn

 

To reiterate...

The chances of us being the ones who design the virtual reality machines rather than the ones who live inside them are one in a googleplex. Which basically means nothing means anything at all.

 

I’ve just left an answerphone message. I want to buy the predictive model that suggested we should invest in Mamadou Thiam.

 

Well they messed up with the artificial intelligence when they created Tom Kennedy

 

@Jay do you have / can you be arsed to find a link to this post. Sounds an interesting theory

 

It was in a "does god exist thread" on here many years ago. Peak BBS

 

I've heard about it before. Some scientists believe it. Will try and dig out a link...


https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/features/are-we-living-simulated-universe-n713031

 

Remember when we used to compare which bottles of real ale we were trying on an evening?

Happy times.

 

When Jay posted it was summat about a bloke on a train saying he was god and explaining it.

God knows how you search the archive forum on here.

And he should be able to cos he's a computer

 

I don't I'm afraid. The theory is that as computers get ever more powerful - Moore's law suggests processing power doubles about every 18 months, which has held true since the 70s - then we'll soon have the ability to create universes within a virtual environment that are indistinguishable from reality. The number of universes we could create is infinite. So, the chances of us being the ones who developed the technology to do this rather than the ones who live within that technology created by others is infinitesimally small.

There is evidence that Moore's law is slowing down. However, we're on the cusp of quantum computing which would literally be a quantum leap in processing power that would make Moore's law inconsequential. Such huge strides forward are not science fiction, as 5G is currently demonstrating, which makes all previous data transfer rates just laughable. And that is the second data transfer revolution in just a couple of decades after broadband and WiFi made ISDN look stone age.

 

I love that, I'll find it.

 

cheers mate, will look into it. Presumably not related to Kieffer

 

Our universe was created by a maths geek. He put a few equations into the module and pressed play. And this is what we've got. That's why mathematicians and physicists are so smug. They're discovering them. These equations. And for every discovery they get Nobel prizes and international recognition. I've no doubt they'll find them all and spend the rest of their days like a pig in **** with the answers to the universe in their hands.

And because this is the only universe we know they believe maths is all important, that it's the only way a universe can work. But that's utter b0ll0cks.

There are billions of universes out there designed by alcoholic smokers who like chatting up women. Where I'm a fkucing God.

 

Put it this way the content of the original post made more sense than Dyson & Jay did mid thread

 

It's literally everywhere now. There are a thousand websites hosting it. When I linked to it, it was one post on one website. It's probably been bastardised and monetised, I haven't read through it to check, but here it is, almost certainly not in its former glory.

https://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal

 

To be fair mate, I've never made much sense. And Dyson is miles worse than me.

 

To quote God though...

'I'm not sure I understand my part in this exercise. I just publish this conversation on the web and everything will be alright?'

'Not necessarily. Not that easy I'm afraid. To start with, who's going to take this seriously? It will just be seen as a mildly amusing work of fiction. In fact, your words and indeed most of your work will not be understood or appreciated until some much more advanced scholars develop the ideas you are struggling to express and explain them somewhat more competently. At which point some of those ideas will be taken up en masse and searches will be undertaken of the archives. They will find this work and be struck by its prescience. You won't make the Einstein grade, but you might manage John the Baptist"