Are We Living In a Computer Simulation?

[anhinga_anhinga]

Cema pointed my attention to the fact that one of the smartest modern philosophers, Nick Bostrom, now has a separate Web site dedicated to the Simulation argument.

Comments

[cema.livejournal.com]

Reading fiction sometimes can give one better insights than reading scientific papers.

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

That's true.

Have you read "The Web" ("Паутина")? I am looking for an English translation of this one...

[cema.livejournal.com]

Нет, не читал. А надо? Это ведь Лёха Андреев, да?

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

>А надо?

Мне понравилось...

>Это ведь Лёха Андреев, да?

Говорят, что да... Только мне это ничего не говорит - что ты про него знаешь ?

[cema.livejournal.com]

Сетевой персонаж со времён USENET'а. То ли поэт, то ли пейсатель-фантаст. Сейчас я начал читать Паутину. Пишет он неплохо, но ощущение крошек с барского стола явное. Но ничего, не хуже многих.

Reposting

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

That's true.

Have you read "The Web" ("Паутина")? I am looking for an English translation of this one...

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It seems that LJ ate this comment (not quite, it shows in the list of my
recent comments as,
http://www.livejournal.com/users/anhinga_anhinga/8017.html?thread=56657#t56657
but not in the entry itself, and the thread seems to be lost.) This looks like a race condition: it did not appear for a while after "Posted Successfully", then appeared, then disappeared again...

Re: Reposting

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

And finally the first one appeared together with the repost.

Weird...