Reading the discussion here there are several assumptions that need to be removed. Lets assume that this is a simulation. We will refer to the producer of the simulation as the programmers.
The programmers don't care about us. They could care less if we figured out we are in a simulation. This isn't the matrix. Humans aren't the reason for the simulation. It is unlikely the programmers are even aware of us. After all, we have existed for.000016 of the time so far that the simulation has been running.
We are currently incapable of having virtually (pun intended) any impact on the simulation. The best we can hope for is ruining the environment on a small rock around one of a trillion trillion stars, and that rock will forget we exist in another 10 million years, or roughly 0.0008 the time the simulation has currently been running.
The programmers are about as interested in talking with us or dealing with us as we are interested in talking with a water molecule.
Until we arrive at the point that we are a galactic level intelligence, it is highly doubtful that the programmers care what we do. Judging how the simulation appears to be put together, we are probably just side affects. Hell, if we do reach the point of being able to have an impact on the galaxy, we might actually "spoil" the simulation and the programmers be forced to shutdown, tweak so that side affects such as ourselves don't show up and spoil things, and restart the simulation.
I have a friend who lives in Park City, UT who got fed up enough with the local light pollution that he decided to do something about it. He founded a company that only sells dark sky friendly lights. Its called Starry Night Lights http://www.starrynightlights.com/. Check it out if you really want to do your part.
iMacs Bring Down SCO.
Exclusively from KTPX,
Candy colored iMacs, those innocent looking computers sitting on the desks of millions, were taken over today by mad hackers. The hackers wrote a virus that turned these lickable computers into denial of service attacking machines, whose sole purpose is to make the lives of saintly companies like SCO a living hell.
More after the break.
I would create a program called "Prepare for the Future" This program would provide migration to SCO customers who wish to migrate from SCO Unix to IBM Linux. Then I would give the service away for free to the first 1000 customers who sign up.
Don't forget that anyone who dies defending their country from an invasion is "innocent" in that they are not doing anything wrong. It is even more so in a country ruled by a dictator where people are forced to defect their country like it or not. So, virtually every Iraqi that died during the war was innocent.
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Because the simulation wasn't built to simulate us, it was built to simulate the universe. We, and perhaps life in general, are a side affect.
Reading the discussion here there are several assumptions that need to be removed. Lets assume that this is a simulation. We will refer to the producer of the simulation as the programmers. The programmers don't care about us. They could care less if we figured out we are in a simulation. This isn't the matrix. Humans aren't the reason for the simulation. It is unlikely the programmers are even aware of us. After all, we have existed for .000016 of the time so far that the simulation has been running.
We are currently incapable of having virtually (pun intended) any impact on the simulation. The best we can hope for is ruining the environment on a small rock around one of a trillion trillion stars, and that rock will forget we exist in another 10 million years, or roughly 0.0008 the time the simulation has currently been running.
The programmers are about as interested in talking with us or dealing with us as we are interested in talking with a water molecule.
Until we arrive at the point that we are a galactic level intelligence, it is highly doubtful that the programmers care what we do. Judging how the simulation appears to be put together, we are probably just side affects. Hell, if we do reach the point of being able to have an impact on the galaxy, we might actually "spoil" the simulation and the programmers be forced to shutdown, tweak so that side affects such as ourselves don't show up and spoil things, and restart the simulation.
I have a friend who lives in Park City, UT who got fed up enough with the local light pollution that he decided to do something about it. He founded a company that only sells dark sky friendly lights. Its called Starry Night Lights http://www.starrynightlights.com/. Check it out if you really want to do your part.
iMacs Bring Down SCO. Exclusively from KTPX, Candy colored iMacs, those innocent looking computers sitting on the desks of millions, were taken over today by mad hackers. The hackers wrote a virus that turned these lickable computers into denial of service attacking machines, whose sole purpose is to make the lives of saintly companies like SCO a living hell. More after the break.
I would create a program called "Prepare for the Future" This program would provide migration to SCO customers who wish to migrate from SCO Unix to IBM Linux. Then I would give the service away for free to the first 1000 customers who sign up.
Don't forget that anyone who dies defending their country from an invasion is "innocent" in that they are not doing anything wrong. It is even more so in a country ruled by a dictator where people are forced to defect their country like it or not. So, virtually every Iraqi that died during the war was innocent.