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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16958