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scottaaronson.blog
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| | | | | In this post, I wish to propose for the reader's favorable consideration a doctrine that will strike many in the nerd community as strange, bizarre, and paradoxical, but that I hope will at least be given a hearing. The doctrine in question is this: while it is possible that, a century hence, humans will have... | |
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www.greaterwrong.com
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| | | | | Eliezer's Anthropic Trilemma: So here's a simple algorithm for winning the lottery: Buy a ticket. Suspend your computer program just before the lottery drawing - which should of course be a quantum lottery, so that every ticket wins somewhere. Program your computational environment to, if you win, make a trillion copies of yourself, and wake them up for ten seconds, long enough to experience winning the lottery. Then suspend the programs, merge them again, and start the result. If you don't win the lottery, then just wake up automatically. The odds of winning the lottery are ordinarily a billion to one. But now the branch in which youwin has your "measure", your "amount of experience",temporarily multiplied by a trillion. So with the brief expenditure of a l... | |
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selfawarepatterns.com
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| | | | | An interesting article byJonathan Borwein and David H. Bailey on why science needs philosophy. When renowned scientists now talk seriously about millions of multiverses, the old question "are we alone?" gets a whole new meaning. Our ever-expanding universe is incomprehensibly large - and its rate of growth is apparently accelerating - but if so it's... | |
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www.pcgamer.com
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| | | The latest Mass Effect Andromeda breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at PC Gamer | ||
