Re: Nick Bostrom on slashdot

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Reason stated:
<<Nick Bostrom is probably buried under the burning, slashdotted wreckage of
his server at the moment:

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/31/2224253.shtml?tid=188&tid=200&tid=97e Corbin

We should all just give up and write articles relating to popular movies, I
can see it now...now if I could just find a movie I could relate to life
extension. Hmm.>>
<A HREF="http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/gr-qc/papers/0304/0304032.pdf">There was a opposing paper by WH Wolpert linked to the slashdot article:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMedP
list_uids=11800757&dopt=Abstract</A>

Not to defend Nick Bostrom, but I believe Paolo Zizzi's comprehension is
sharper. I do not suspect that we are lving in a sim, perhaps a "creation" yes,
but merely a sim..naw!

http://xxx.lanl.gov/ftp/gr-qc/papers/0304/0304032.pdf

gr-qc/0304032 [abs, pdf] : (Universe is computable N'yeah! papers)

Title: Spacetime at the Planck Scale: The Quantum Computer View
Authors: Paola Zizzi
Comments: 18 pages,1 figure
2. gr-qc/0204007 [abs, pdf] :

Title: Quantum Computing Spacetime
Authors: P. A. Zizzi
Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures

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