X-Message-Number: 16958
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:25:33 -0700
From: Lee Corbin <>
Subject: Re: Simulation

Yvan Bozzonetti writes

>We are too few a part of that simulation to be its main purpose. You don't 
>create 10^20 stars to watch GWB in the White House or anything else on
Earth. 
>In God I don't trust, and I don't think the Universe we see has been built
by 
>anyone, less by anyone with the objective to watch us. We are nothing and we 
>have to learn this fact.

I agree.  As I've said, the two things still worth studying a million
years from now will probably be only (a) Gratification Research and (b)
mathematics.  Even supposing that Tipler or someone is right, and that
there is ultimately no end of resources, it's difficult to conceive of
any entity running the entire 20th century again.  Those resources could
be used *directly* in ways much more gratifying (or rewarding).  What
would the point be of re-running every incident in every trench of
World War I?  Even less, what would be the point of re-running the
Amazon jungle, and every single incident of some larger creature
devouring or absorbing some smaller one?

>If there was any thinking behind the simulation, the parameter choice would 
>have been somewhat smarter.

Yes, to put it mildly.

>It seems we are in the dumbest possible world, a 
>nearly proof that nobody is at the command level.

Now you are going too far  :-)   the world could easily be much,
much dumber than it is.  Consider what's happening on Jupiter
right now, for starters.

Lee Corbin

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