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  • B BillWoodruff

    "Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation. Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California:" [^]. Excellent, that means we don't need to buy a Tesla.

    «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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    Slacker007
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    Musk is crazy. End of story.

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    • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

      I give it a 999,999,999 in a billion chance that he watched The Matrix last night :D

      Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.

      Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

      Regards, Sander

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      Slacker007
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      :thumbsup:

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      • R ricmil42

        I code, therefore I am!

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        But do you code shite? For your sake, I hope not. :)

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        • D Daniel Pfeffer

          I just looked out my window and saw GAME OVER plastered all over the sky. I wonder what happens now?

          If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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          Lost User
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          You wait until someone inserts a quarter.

          The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
          This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
          "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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          • B BillWoodruff

            "Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation. Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California:" [^]. Excellent, that means we don't need to buy a Tesla.

            «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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            OriginalGriff
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            I wondered why there was a big red sign saying "LEVEL 2" when I reached 1,000,000 rep points!

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            • L Lost User

              So we are not going to heaven, hell or reincarnation (or any combintion of these). We are going to be garbage collected. And what if there is a tiny bug? Will I be immortal if I somehow can prevent my destructor ever being executed? Or if I always have a few other people who keep a reference?

              The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
              This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
              "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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              ZurdoDev
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              CDP1802 wrote:

              if I always have a few other people who keep a reference?

              You're not dead as long as someone still remembers you. :-\

              There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

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              • R R Giskard Reventlov

                Great TV; I think this is the final few episodes.

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                They just started this seaasons episodes but they are going to be on 2 times a week at the moment. I haven't heard of anything else that may happen to it.

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                • B BillWoodruff

                  "Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation. Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California:" [^]. Excellent, that means we don't need to buy a Tesla.

                  «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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                  Vikram A Punathambekar
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                  Are You Living in a Simulation?[^] I posted this in the Lounge in April 2003! :)

                  Cheers, विक्रम "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:

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                  • D Daniel Pfeffer

                    I just looked out my window and saw GAME OVER plastered all over the sky. I wonder what happens now?

                    If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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                    ledtech3
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                    Restart and try again ?

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                    • B BillWoodruff

                      "Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation. Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California:" [^]. Excellent, that means we don't need to buy a Tesla.

                      «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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                      Mark_Wallace
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                      We Are living in computer simulations. The computer is our brain, and everything we see, hear, feel, etc, is composited there. Who knows what the world really looks like?

                      I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                      • B BillWoodruff

                        "Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation. Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California:" [^]. Excellent, that means we don't need to buy a Tesla.

                        «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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                        R Erasmus
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                        I had a dream once... more of a nightmare, that I was playing quake and I was the character in the game, and someone shot a rocket at me and I realized that it wasn't a dream and a game, but that it was real (in my dream) and caught such a big fright knowing that if the rocket hit me I'm dead that I woke up almost like Leonardo di caprio in the movie inception where I went into a state where a had to spin something as to make sure that I was actually in the real reality and not in inception. What I learned from that experience is that life is not a game, so don't screw with it.

                        "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." << please vote!! >>

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                        • B BillWoodruff

                          "Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation. Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California:" [^]. Excellent, that means we don't need to buy a Tesla.

                          «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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                          JCarlos Abad
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                          Nooooooooooooooooooooo I don´t want to be a computer simulation!!!!!

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                          • B BillWoodruff

                            "Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation. Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California:" [^]. Excellent, that means we don't need to buy a Tesla.

                            «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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                            Strongly recommended: Realtime Interrupt: James P. Hogan: 9780671578848: Amazon.com: Books[^] This story is not quite being a computer simulation, but about living in a computer simulation. Or... Is is reality? How would you find out? When you exit the simulation, how do you know that you are back to reality? I known people who have had sleeping problems after reading this novel. Admittedly, it is somewhat "creepy". But fascinating. Like all James P Hogan novels, it is very well researched, carrying a lot of real expert knowledge, with a logically consistent story. And just slightly across the border to Science Fiction: You are left with a feeling that this could be real reality in just a few years.

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                            • D Daniel Pfeffer

                              I just looked out my window and saw GAME OVER plastered all over the sky. I wonder what happens now?

                              If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill

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                              KBZX5000
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                              I play life on hard mode, permadeath on, neutral birth options. I'm aiming for one of those grim-dark endings with lots of robots and Warhammer 40K references. Doing great so far, and haven't even died once! I'm not a big fan of the pay2win mechanics though. Kinda ruins the gameplay.

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                              • L ledtech3

                                They just started this seaasons episodes but they are going to be on 2 times a week at the moment. I haven't heard of anything else that may happen to it.

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                                rtpHarry
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                                yeah this is the end of the show, they are burning off the final few episodes: Person of Interest (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^] The series was renewed for a 13-episode fifth season,[3] which was later confirmed to be the final season.[4] The season premiered on May 3, 2016, and its series finale will air on June 21, 2016.[5]

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                                • B BillWoodruff

                                  "Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation. Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California:" [^]. Excellent, that means we don't need to buy a Tesla.

                                  «There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008

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                                  User 8697789
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                                  He must have read this: Am I a simulation

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                                  • J JCarlos Abad

                                    Nooooooooooooooooooooo I don´t want to be a computer simulation!!!!!

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                                    User 8697789
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                                    Why Not? What difference does it make?

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                                    • L Lost User

                                      So we are not going to heaven, hell or reincarnation (or any combintion of these). We are going to be garbage collected. And what if there is a tiny bug? Will I be immortal if I somehow can prevent my destructor ever being executed? Or if I always have a few other people who keep a reference?

                                      The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
                                      This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
                                      "I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.

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                                      User 8697789
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                                      and does it mean there is a god? We could also get re-used, I guess...

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                                        Why Not? What difference does it make?

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                                        JCarlos Abad
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                                        Sorry, my low level of English prevents me from maintaining a deep conversation, so I'll be brief: Surely no difference, a simulation does not know that it is being simulated. It is, above all, a psychological desire. I want to really exist. I want to have soul. I don't want to be a hologram, or executable code. My life should make sense, else what I'm doing here? If I'm not real, I want to kill the matrix architect.

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                                        • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                                          I give it a 999,999,999 in a billion chance that he watched The Matrix last night :D

                                          Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.

                                          Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

                                          Regards, Sander

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                                          Middle Manager
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                                          lol. He probably watches it to psyche himself up for another day of being too cool for the rest of us

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