The Other Side of Midnight - Richard C. Hoagland - Live Chat Thread

[jazmunda]

Who cut the cheese?

[BellBoy]

No he's admitted he is super slow. He blamed it on typewriters.

lol, Hoagie is always up on the latest technology.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

No he's admitted he is super slow. He blamed it on typewriters.

Maybe one word per 19.5 seconds?

[norland2424]

[Manx]

there is a striking resemblance lol

I see what you did there

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

TigerLily doing the braaps prance.  Never show only assert

Braaps Tiger, Glad Art's Tarts are here.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

"Who moved my cheese" LOL from a cheesehead

[Manx]

Huh, but you don't really need all the baggage about consciousness and this and that. Just say the universe is a computer simulation, we're all AI's existing within it, and that every religion, the paranormal, etc. was all programmed in and actually exists to the individual AI's that experience them. No need for fragmentary god consciousness. Then he could take advantage of Bostrum's postulate that it's almost impossible that the universe isn't a simulation.

I am reminded of this now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXeVgEs4sOo

[trostol]

lol i was just about to say that Richard...stop stealing my lines

[Sandra Kristen]

I don't smoke pot anymore but this show is making me wish I was high out of my mind.

[TigerLily]

Braaps Tiger, Glad Art's Tarts are here.

Sister Princess Sandra is in attendance. Hey Sis!

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Huh, but you don't really need all the baggage about consciousness and this and that. Just say the universe is a computer simulation, we're all AI's existing within it, and that every religion, the paranormal, etc. was all programmed in and actually exists to the individual AI's that experience them. No need for fragmentary god consciousness. Then he could take advantage of Bostrum's postulate that it's almost impossible that the universe isn't a simulation.

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

[Sandra Kristen]

Sister Princess Sandra is in attendance. Hey Sis!

*Secret handshake*

[trostol]

I don't smoke pot anymore but this show is making me wish I was high out of my mind.

all that ever did to me was make me sleepy lol

[SciFiAuthor]

If there is a god, he/she is a computer scientist running a simulation of a universe. *bows*

I'm high, so I'm being profound this evening.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

BTW - my Terminal emulator is Green on Black.

[trostol]

i liked that music

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

If there is a god, he/she is a computer scientist running a simulation of a universe. *bows*

I'm high, so I'm being profound this evening.

I always thought he was a pimply faced teenager playing Civilization.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

If there is a god, he/she is a computer scientist running a simulation of a universe. *bows*

I'm high, so I'm being profound this evening.

[trostol]

I always thought he was a pimply faced teenager playing Civilization.

not sure teenagers play Civ these days

[TigerLily]

i liked that music

Yes. First one I've liked

[GeorgieForPresident2216]

not sure teenagers play Civ these days

Good point.  It requires an attention span

[Juan Cena]

Huh, but you don't really need all the baggage about consciousness and this and that. Just say the universe is a computer simulation, we're all AI's existing within it, and that every religion, the paranormal, etc. was all programmed in and actually exists to the individual AI's that experience them. No need for fragmentary god consciousness. Then he could take advantage of Bostrum's postulate that it's almost impossible that the universe isn't a simulation.

Why does it even need to be inside of a computer? Couldn't our universe simply be a holographic projection of a 2-D universe?

[SciFiAuthor]

Yikes, that's not what Kurzweil claims. Consciousness becomes the machine, not the other way around.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

I always thought he was a pimply faced teenager playing Civilization.

That actually makes a lot of sense 

[TigerLily]

Why does it even need to be inside of a computer? Couldn't our universe simply be a holographic projection of a 2-D universe?

"Flatland"

[ArJuna]

If there is a god, he/she is a computer scientist running a simulation of a universe. *bows*

I'm high, so I'm being profound this evening.

I've sometimes wondered if we are nothing more than a game of "Sims" and that 100 car pile-ups are caused by bored teenagers on some alien planet.

[Juan Cena]

not sure teenagers play Civ these days

Minecraft, dude.

You need to stay current.

[Manx]

 â€œOnce upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”

― Zhuangzi, at least a hundred years ago