the Matrix, anyone?

[mckitterick]

If it's possible to simulate the world, then it's near-certain the we are living in a simulation now.

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[rorschachsix.livejournal.com]

Looks to me like someone just read a Charlie Stross novel. :)

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Have you read his latest, Glasshouse? Some seriously cool ideas there.

[rorschachsix.livejournal.com]

Just finished it. I like how he went back and fleshed out a bit of the triptych that was Accellerando.

[jjgalahad.livejournal.com]

. . . Whoa.

[cba1282zyx.livejournal.com]

I started reading the article but an unknown source put an add for cheap Northwest Airline tickets which greatly distracted me.
Coincidence? I think not.

[chernobylred.livejournal.com]

To the creator of my simulation world: Thanks for giving me an inhumanly slow metabolism, dude. Thumbs up.

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

I think that native cultures have known that for eons... how bout the Aboriginal Dreamtime, where the dreamworld is real and this life is just a construct of that, for example.