Re: Nick Bostrom on slashdot

From: Alfio Puglisi (puglisi@arcetri.astro.it)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 13:55:20 MDT

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    I have to rectract my statement. Some interesting comments are being
    written, and someone is speculating that Quantum effects (and the whole
    QM) is an artifact of experiments reaching the maximum "resolution" of the
    simulation.

    I'm in no position to judge the merits, but it's a kinda fun thought...

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66105&cid=6089987

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=66105&cid=608933900 

    Ciao,
    Alfio

     On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Technotranscendence wrote:

    >On Sunday, June 01, 2003 7:40 AM Alfio Puglisi puglisi@arcetri.astro.it
    >wrote:
    >> What I find depressing is that even a (supposed)
    >> technical-savy audience like slashdot is coming
    >> up with statements like:
    >>
    >> - you cannot simulate a human mind
    >> - you cannot simulate an entire planet
    >> - you cannot generate a 3D VR good enough to fool the human eye (!)
    >
    >Maybe this wasn't a rhetorical "you," but they were speaking to a
    >specific individual.:) Maybe they were confusing "can" and "may.":)
    >
    >But seriously, I'm surprised too. If what's meant is that something
    >might be left out of any such simulation, fair enough, but I tend to
    >think these people mean it's not possible to build stuff that's close
    >enough.
    >
    >Cheers!
    >
    >Dan
    >http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/
    >
    >



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