Friday, September 16, 2016

Loch Ness Monster?/Are we living in a simulation?

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Mirror September 16 

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'Scottish whisky worker captures 'clearest ever photo of Loch Ness Monster''

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'Ian Bremner was looking for red deer in the Highlands when he noticed three humps emerging from the waters of Loch Ness' 

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'The picture shows a two-metre long silver creature swimming away from the lens with its head bobbing away and a tail flapping a metre away, preparing to swim further on. The apparent creature was spotted coming up for air close to the banks of the loch on Saturday afternoon midway between the villages of Dores and Inverfarigaig.'

If the Loch Ness creature does exist, it will need to be empirically viewed in its fullness as reasonable proof. Otherwise there is room for healthy skepticism, of course.

The Loch Ness Monster July 29, 2013

Actua Soccer: This is actually an example of a simulated reality.

Telegraph January 3

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'We are ‘almost definitely’ living in a Matrix-style simulation, claims Elon Musk'

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'Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur and founder of Space X, Tesla and Paypal, has told an interviewer there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation.'

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'He also claimed that, if we’re not living in a simulation, we could be approaching the end of the world.'

Any philosophical proofs as cumulative evidences? Documented historical evidence?

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“If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, even if that rate of advancement drops by a thousand from what it is now. Then you just say, okay, let's imagine it's 10,000 years in the future, which is nothing on the evolutionary scale.

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'“So given that we're clearly on a trajectory to have games that are indistinguishable from reality, and those games could be played on any set-top box or on a PC or whatever, and there would probably be billions of such computers or set-top boxes, it would seem to follow that the odds that we're in base reality is one in billions.'

That does not follow. Simply, technology is increasing and therefore, computer games should become more realistic in simulation over time. This does not in itself, deny reality for simulation.