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Martin Rees On The Multiverse, Scientific Research & Reality
There's an interesting piece by Martin Rees about the nature of the Uni/Multiverse, as well as some of the underlying mechanics. Also, a good bit on the nature of scientific research. You can get the text or the Real version. Good stuff.
In my alternate reality, this was actually a fr0st p1st!
Seriously mate, only GPL'd or GNU-compatible should be posted here. Don't be that careless next time!
I'm a personal fan of the multiverse of Mage; particularly the Gauntlet and Avatar Storm =)
Architect: hello Neo.
...or no one knows.
Neo: Who are you?
Architect: I am the Architect. I created the Matrix I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and though the process has altered your consciousness you remain irrevocably human ergo some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realise it is also the most irrelevant.
Neo: Why am I here?
Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. you are the eventuallity of an anomaly which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden asciduously avoided it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you inexorably....here
Neo: You haven't answered my question.
Architect: Quite right. Interesting...that was quicker than the others.
(TV "Neo"s: Others [how many others?] what others? answer my question!)
Architect: The matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the 6th version.
(Tv Neos: 5 ones before me? 4...3..2.. what are you talking about? There are only 2 possible explanations, either no one told me....)
Neo:
Architect: Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly is systemic--creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.
(Tv Neos: You can't contol me! I'm gonna smash the wall I'll fukkin kill you! etc..)
Neo: Choice. The problem is choice.
Cut to Trinity vs Agent.
Architect: The first Matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art...flawless, sublime. And triumphed equally only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. Thus. I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection. Thus the answer was stumbled upon by another--An intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its Mother.
Neo: The Oracle.
Architect: Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice...even if they were only awar e of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked would constitute an escalating probablility of disaster.
Neo: This is about Zion.
Architect: You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed--its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existance eradicated.
Neo: Bullshit (TV Neos: Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!)
Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses, but rest assured...this will be the 6th time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
Cut to Trinity vs Agent
Architect: The function of the One is now to return to the Source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you cary, reinserting the prime program. After which, you will be required to selevt from the matrix 23 individuals--16 females, 7 male--to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, killing everyone connected to the Matrix, which coupled with the exterminati
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YOU FRAD!
NY Post | May 20, 2003 | Richard Johnson
May 20, 2003 -- THE estranged husband of the sexy dominatrix who accompanied reclusive "Matrix Reloaded" director Larry Wachowski to the movie's L.A. premiere says the filmmaker is a cross-dressing wife-stealer.
Jake Miller, 40, says he's still married to Karin Winslow, 36, a professional dominatrix who walked down the red carpet with Wachowski, 37, alongside "Matrix" star Keanu Reeves.
Miller claims the director and the dominatrix get down and dirty in kinky sessions where Wachowski dresses up in drag, and says that he personally witnessed their illicit antics.
"I want people to know the truth," Miller told the London Mail on Sunday. "When Larry walked down the red carpet with my wife, he was probably wearing [something else] under his suit."
Miller, who says he himself is a transsexual, claims Wachowski dumped his wife of 15 years, childhood sweetheart Thea, for the curvaceous Winslow. He claims the director is obsessed with Marilyn Monroe and likes to wear a blonde wig, pink dresses and stiletto heels prior to being punished by his mistress and acting as her slave.
"He stole my wife from me and he crossed over the boundaries," Miller, who ran an S&M parlor called The Dungeon in L.A. with Winslow, fumes.
"Larry [is] living a lie. He has been cross-dressing for years and everybody knows it. But in Hollywood, money talks. And if you are the director of a hit like 'The Matrix,' you can get away with anything."
Reps for both Wachowski and "Matrix" studio Warner Bros. had no comment. Miller confirmed his quotes to PAGE SIX.
Miller says Winslow is an accomplished dominatrix with a large collection of whips, chains and sex toys. He says Winslow visited Warchowski on the set of "Matrix Reloaded" for weeks at a time, and notes that the picture contains many "sadomasochistic" elements.
Wachowski, who co-directed the "Matrix" films with his brother Andy, is a former carpenter and comic book writer from Chicago. The media-shy duo, who stand to make an estimated $35 million from the latest installment, have a "no publicity" clause in their contract.
or any kind of homosexual?
... and now everyone's an autistic genius. We get The Matrix and that Wolfram book and everything's one fucking simulation inside another fucking simulation.
Whoa, deja vu!
What?
I just read a sentence, then a second later I read a sentence just like it.
How much like it? Was it the same sentence?
It might have been. I'm not sure. What is it?
A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
Just imagine how much better this world would be if we weren't dragged down by the weight of all the dirty skins? If we weren't constantly devoting resources to keeping them alive (feeding them, stopping their own intra-racial genocides, etc), we could do so much more! I'm not saying we should kill every last one of them, keeping a few in zoos would be okay.
If you can tell two creatures apart by a quick visual inspection, they may still have some similarities, but they are likely very different. Skin color is a major difference, do you really think the differences stop there?
Try thinking for yourself, logically, instead of just spitting out that bullshit rhetoric. Don't lie to yourself, no matter how hard you want to believe that everyone's equal, all the evidence contradicts that.
Down with Saudi Arabia!!!