12-21-2012, Total BS?

[Styygens]

Then will come the announcement the Annunaki are "4 reelz"!

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513...ts-mum-for-now

[Styygens]

But no one will care about the Annunaki, because Yellowstone will erupt (finally!) and cover more than 2/3 of the US in fine, white, powdery ash.

[Styygens]

Here's something better than the Yellowstone Supervolcano to think about: Jessica Alba dancing:

[Styygens]

Then, of course, there is the possibility -- some might say, "logical probability" -- that we are all simply living in a computer simulation.

Seriously, NPR has the story here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/1...not-be-reality

But the detailed philosophical form of the simulation argument comes from Nick Bostrom, a philosopher who is currently the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford.

Back in 2003 Bostrom wrote an article imaginatively titled "Are You Living In A Computer Simulation." Bostrom wanted to consider technologically mature civilizations, which for him meant cultures so advanced they build super-duper computers with fully conscious simulated minds living inside simulated realities. Think The Sims on super-duper steroids. These cultures, Bostrom reasoned, might then create ancestor simulations on their computers, meaning simulations of their own past. With these ideas in mind, Bostrom then made the final leap by considering the truth, or falsehood, of three statements:

Almost all civilizations at our level of development become extinct before becoming technologically mature.
The fraction of technologically mature civilizations that are interested in creating ancestor simulations is almost zero. 

You are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.

So watch what happens as we run down the truth/falsehood list of these statements. If 1 is true then virtually no civilization becomes super-high tech before dying, which kind of stinks. If 1 is false but 2 is true, then virtually no ancestor simulations should exist. The use of "virtually" is important here because Bostrom's purely philosophical argument relies on probabilities and, in the end, it leads him to a remarkable place.

Now let's say statement 1 is false. That would means there are civilizations reaching heights of technology we can barely imagine today. Then add statement 2 as false. That would mean some of these technologically mature civilizations start creating super-duper simulations of their own past. With statement 1 and statement 2 false the conclusion has to be that there must exist ancestor simulations running out there right now full of simulated ancestor minds.

So come 12/21/2012, someone will simply power down the computer. That's it; lights out! No amount of stockpiled ammunition will stop that from happening. You can prep all you want. It will mean nothing.

[Mr. Machette]

Well that's a relief!

(Ammo is so expensive these days..)

[Sri Hanuman]

No news from Mahs. Zeey are busy totally recalling!!!

[W. Rabbit]

No news from Mahs. Zeey are busy totally recalling!!!

We are definitely going to receive news from Mars...

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...news-organics/

[doofaloofa]

We are definitely going to receive news from Mars...

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...news-organics/

And the news will be...

"Mars sucks!"

[Sri Hanuman]

Then, of course, there is the possibility -- some might say, "logical probability" -- that we are all simply living in a computer simulation.

Seriously, NPR has the story here:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2012/1...not-be-reality



So come 12/21/2012, someone will simply power down the computer. That's it; lights out! No amount of stockpiled ammunition will stop that from happening. You can prep all you want. It will mean nothing.

13th floor. You have to kill the avatar for the avatar to swap minds and return to the real world.

[Styygens]

Or we could all drown in a flood of Biblical Proportions!!!



Although I'm a little confused about where all that volume of water will come from and where it will recede to afterwards...