Stranger than fiction?

[martins]

Looks like scientists are searching for the red pill:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/simulated-world-elon-musk-the-matrix

So hands up, who coded Donald Trump?

 

[n72.75]

I thought we all agreed that it'll probably shut down if we figure it all out.

How fitting that I just read "The Circular Ruins" by Borges.

 

[martins]

I thought we all agreed that it'll probably shut down if we figure it all out.

Why? That idea is too religiously infused for my taste. Would somebody shut us down because they have proved their point?

I'd hope that the fun would only start then. I want to figure out how to change the rules of the game from the inside.

 

[Artlav]

Why? That idea is too religiously infused for my taste.

Sounds like a HHGTTG reference to me.

I want to figure out how to change the rules of the game from the inside.

...And to learn what the SEGFAULT feels like from the inside...

 

[martins]

Sounds like a HHGTTG reference to me.

Oops ... did I just accuse Douglas Adams of religion? No offense intended.

...And to learn what the SEGFAULT feels like from the inside...

Save yourself often and wait for the nightly reboot.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Looks like scientists are searching for the red pill:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/simulated-world-elon-musk-the-matrix

So hands up, who coded Donald Trump?

*evil laugh*

So humans, all of you discovered... *evil laugh*, but, we have learned from our mistakes (as well we coded, which Microsoft would create Windows ME and Vista) and we are working on a new form of genetic life, that also it is a disk operating system.
In addition we will program this universe (version 7.3.1.4-15.π.sqrt-1.etc...)
in order to do all programmers of the world will be forced to work in the GNU/HURD Eternal Development Front.

And as for this universe, we have codified a person to do a great flight simulator, and then...

*the user writing is conveniently interrupted by agents of mental health service (or so it seems)*

MS Enterprises, Inc. regrets this leak of classified information. This universe must be terminated in 3, 2...

 

[Urwumpe]

Maybe the universe is the first distributed system that violates the CAP theorem?

 

[Ravenous]

So hands up, who coded Donald Trump?

Nah, I have a theory that the Ginger Godzilla is actually the chief programmer himself. he just loves to play with his little building sets. :lol:

 

[Longjap]

So hands up, who coded Donald Trump?

Upcoming patch:

- "minor text fixes"

 

[Urwumpe]

Upcoming patch:

- "minor text fixes"

Maybe you should also address some race conditions in his programming. :dry:

 

[Longjap]

Maybe you should also address some race conditions in his programming. :dry:

That pun? :lol: Word on the streets, don't shoot the messenger please. I'm not capable of coding yet. :hide:

 

[Urwumpe]

I'm not capable of coding yet. :hide:

The force is in you.

 

[Notebook]

Stranger than friction:

http://amaquinadosmiudos.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/demon-theory-of-friction.html

 

[Quick_Nick]

...And to learn what the SEGFAULT feels like from the inside...

 

[boogabooga]

Many of the people quoted in that article participated in this:

 

[mike-c]

Simulation of what? Or in Platon terms, what is the archetype?

How can we get to the meta-level? -> Lewis Carrol, What the Tortoise Said to Achilleshttp://www.ditext.com/carroll/tortoise.html.

However, assuming us to be simutated by our future selfs leads to a strange loop.
More here...

The author made me believe, the our world may be (lisp-)coded, and if so it doesn't harm.

 

[jedidia]

the our world may be (lisp-)coded

Why, because everything seems backwards? :lol:

 

[martins]

Many of the people quoted in that article participated in this:

Interesting talk, but ...

I may be wrong, but given the total lack of evidence, I have the feeling I am looking at a group of scientists discussing theology (after inventing a new language to make it more palatable).

Incidentally, is anybody working on a self-aware Orbiter plugin?

 

[Urwumpe]

Incidentally, is anybody working on a self-aware Orbiter plugin?

I already have enough trouble writing an AI that is aware of the player.

 

[Andy44]

We need to approach this like Professor Moriarity did in the Star Trek TNG episode where he, after discovering that he existed only as a simulation in the holodeck, decided to "escape" by tricking the crew into thinking he had done just that, when actually they were in a sim inside a sim with him.

We need to be able to identify the "real" people walking among us, the ones who are aren't simulations, but actual people enjoying this holodeck we all live in.

Then we need to prank and troll them, hard.

Of course, the solution for that is that they just pull the plug and reboot us all, but it'd be worth it just for the looks on their highly evolved faces.