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Farmageddon on 27 September 2016
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JRPGfan said:
Slimebeast said:
I would ask them to take me out of the simulation and allow me to live forever.

Religion basically says that happends to all of us, afterwards anyways.

Whats the big hurry? enjoy life and let it happend the natural way.

Just logged in after years to say you sure sound chipper about this whole life thing. So much so, in fact, that I'm starting to suspect you're actually some sort of PR Bot for the simulation. Sorry to burst your bubble there.

PS: This is just a joke. Of course. Haha.

Ha.

(please don't delete me)

 

Airaku said:
Here's a question for some. 


If proven to be true, and for the moment let go of any extensive knowledge of programming you may or may not have.

How would this affect your view of A.I. in video games? How would this view affect in you in the real world? Would you feel any guilt?                                     

Well, I mean, I eat meat, I guess it's kind of the same.

mjk45 said:
John2290 said:

I thought you were seting up a joke :D. They used to call that the ether, we noe call it a vacuum but their is strong evidence that even in the vacuum beyond Earth there is "stuff" in it. Neutrinos for one. However, what I think you mean is the concept of nothingness, In the case of that thought experiment I am speaking of true nothingness. If there is or ever was true nothingness (A true vacuum) and you add anything at all it ceases to be a true vacuum. Information seems to get around this but that all leads back into the OP...

Yeah it's a bit like the vacuum of deep space atoms are there just spread very thinly.

Actually, if you're looking at sub/inter-atomic levels, you should probably be taking quantics into consideration, wich means you'd probably treat the particles as waves and deal with wave packets and functions. So, really, there's no such a thing as the "empty" space "between" atoms/particles, if we are to be strict. The wave function at any given point in space being never identically zero, there's always a chance something might be observed anywhere at any given moment, even if that probability gets vanishingly small at some points. On the other hand, if you try to define the concept of occupied space as a point where a particle actually is, then it's also debatable whether you could say any given specifc point is occupied, for much of the same reasons, but that's debating over the definitions of thing and is, pretty much. Besides that, if you zoom out just a bit and ignore the areas where the chance of detection of anything else already accounted for is absurdly small, still you might have particle/anti-particle pairs poping up and anihilating themselves.

And vacuum is really just an abstraction anyway.

I think. I mean, I have been fluking Quantum Theory the last few semesters after all :P