You mean that if advanced machines exterminate the human race, we should hope that they wouldn't get the idea of "reconstructing" the human race, and then build a huge computer simulator to let us continue our lives in ignorance inside a simulation of the long lost past?...that sounds like a REALLY mean thing to do...
I found this book really intersting, as I'm a MiT Computer Science student. Allthough I've taken courses in parts of what's described in the book (CS, information theory & math), it was interesting to see it from a different view.
I will definitely recommend this paper to my fellow students.
Times like this, i'm glad our (the norwegian) 'IRS' made an easy web-based iterface for 'e-filing' the tax forms. We can use SMS:P (yes, the cellphone thing)
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The Minister of Culture has said he supports the outing of "pirates", and will support the so-called "pirate-hunters" in their application for a new lisence. Google Translate link: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dagbladet.no%2F2009%2F06%2F23%2Fkultur%2Ffildeling%2Fteknio%2Ftrond_giske%2F6860130%2F&sl=no&tl=en&history_state0=
You mean that if advanced machines exterminate the human race, we should hope that they wouldn't get the idea of "reconstructing" the human race, and then build a huge computer simulator to let us continue our lives in ignorance inside a simulation of the long lost past? ...that sounds like a REALLY mean thing to do...
touché.
I found this book really intersting, as I'm a MiT Computer Science student. Allthough I've taken courses in parts of what's described in the book (CS, information theory & math), it was interesting to see it from a different view. I will definitely recommend this paper to my fellow students.
Uploaded the file to:. pdf
http://www.stud.ntnu.no/~stianbor/shared/TOQCv1_0
the university server should be able to take a slashdot or two.
Times like this, i'm glad our (the norwegian) 'IRS' made an easy web-based iterface for 'e-filing' the tax forms. We can use SMS :P (yes, the cellphone thing)