Showing posts with label Nick Bostrom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nick Bostrom. Show all posts

Saturday, October 8, 2022

Humans look for patterns in chaos because that's what we're programmed to do. By trying to debunk simulation theory, they actually end up proving it


Thank you to Martin Armstrong @ Armstrong Economics.  Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford who wrote an influential paper on Simulation Theory in 2003, titled "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?"

At 4:44, he mentions Philip K. Dick, (1928-1982), one of the most influential science fiction writers of all time.  Movies based on his books include Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, the Adjustment Bureau, and plenty of others.  He believed that there are many universes and sometimes those other realities bleed into ours.  He claimed to have visions of this and even wrote stories, like The Man in the High Castle based on these visions.    

5:18 The Mandela Effect when large numbers of people have memories of events that don't match reality. This is the Mandela Effect because millions of people specifically remembered Nelson Mandela died in prison.  He didn't.  

People remember his wife walking beside his casket in a funeral procession that was on television for 2 hours that day.  This never happened.  

Or the Berenstain Bears, which people insist were always called The Berenstein Bears.  

People remember the tycoon from Monopoly having a monocle that he never had.  

What was Darth Vader famous for saying?  "Luke, I am your father."  Nope.  He never said that.  

What about Stouffer's Stove Top Stuffing?  "This part of Thanksgiving."  No it isn't.  Because there's no such product.  Stove Top is made by Kraft.  Ah, no.  

The Evil Queen from Snow White who looked into her mirror and said, "Mirror, Mirror on the wall . . . ."  Nope. 
"Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" 

People remember Febreze being spelled with two e's as in Febreeze.

People remember Jiffy Peanut Butter but there's no such thing.  [Not Jiffy but Jif Peanut Butter.]  

The Flintstones.  There are two Ts in FlinTsTones.  

Fruit of the Loom logo has no cornucopia.

Max Tegmark.  

Theoretical Physicist, James Gates, thought Simulation Theory was crazy, then he started studying quark [and] electrons.  He found error-correcting code buried deep inside the equations used to describe string theory.  

In 2017, a group of scientists at the University of Washington [i.e., Bill Gates laboratories] proved they can embed computer code into strands of DNA.  

Everything in Nature in math.  Look at the Fibonacci Sequence.  You get Fibonacci Sequence by adding the two previous numbers in the sequence together: 1 + 1 = 2, 1 + 2 = 3, 2 + 3 = 5, 3 + 5 = 8, 5 + 8 = 13, and so on.