To: Nasty McPhilthy
…Dr. Bostrom assumes that technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or “posthumans,” could run “ancestor simulations” of their evolutionary history by creating virtual worlds inhabited by virtual people with fully developed virtual nervous systems.These guys need to get a life, and I mean a real life.
4 posted on
08/14/2007 8:32:07 PM PDT by
Inyo-Mono
(If you don't want people to get your goat, don't tell them where it's tied.)
To: Inyo-Mono
…Dr. Bostrom assumes that technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or “posthumans,” could run “ancestor simulations” of their evolutionary history by creating virtual worlds inhabited by virtual people with fully developed virtual nervous systems. These guys need to get a life, and I mean a real life.
I'd say that's a virtual certainty
To: Inyo-Mono
These guys need to get a life, and I mean a real life. It is the height of irony that a computer simulation such as yourself would write those words.
16 posted on
08/14/2007 11:46:17 PM PDT by
Defiant
(Hunter if we can; Thompson if we can't; Romney if we must, Rudy if we wanna lose.)
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