So it *is* possible to have too much money

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Hamilcar

October 11, 2016, 04:45:09 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/simulated-world-elon-musk-the-matrix

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QuoteAccording to this week's New Yorker profile of Y Combinator venture capitalist Sam Altman, there are two tech billionaires secretly engaging scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation. But what does this mean? And what evidence is there that we are, in fact, living in The Matrix?

Scipio

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October 11, 2016, 04:47:26 PM
Oh, look, secularists looking for God.

Yawn.
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garbon

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October 11, 2016, 04:49:50 PM
After hearing about that I was like hmm...should we really listen to Musk about anything?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

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Hamilcar

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October 11, 2016, 04:51:16 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 11, 2016, 04:49:50 PM
After hearing about that I was like hmm...should we really listen to Musk about anything?

I doubt Musk is one of the two actually funding this enterprise.

garbon

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October 11, 2016, 04:56:01 PM
Quote from: Hamilcar on October 11, 2016, 04:51:16 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 11, 2016, 04:49:50 PM
After hearing about that I was like hmm...should we really listen to Musk about anything?

I doubt Musk is one of the two actually funding this enterprise.

I don't really have a stance on that but I do have a stance on him talking about such beliefs.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Hamilcar

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October 11, 2016, 04:58:31 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 11, 2016, 04:56:01 PM
Quote from: Hamilcar on October 11, 2016, 04:51:16 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 11, 2016, 04:49:50 PM
After hearing about that I was like hmm...should we really listen to Musk about anything?

I doubt Musk is one of the two actually funding this enterprise.

I don't really have a stance on that but I do have a stance on him talking about such beliefs.

Well he pretty much just channels Bostrom, so your quarrel is with him, not Musk. Unless your issue is that tech entrepreneurs shouldn't talk philosophy?

garbon

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October 11, 2016, 05:07:11 PM
Quote from: Hamilcar on October 11, 2016, 04:58:31 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 11, 2016, 04:56:01 PM
Quote from: Hamilcar on October 11, 2016, 04:51:16 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 11, 2016, 04:49:50 PM
After hearing about that I was like hmm...should we really listen to Musk about anything?

I doubt Musk is one of the two actually funding this enterprise.

I don't really have a stance on that but I do have a stance on him talking about such beliefs.

Well he pretty much just channels Bostrom, so your quarrel is with him, not Musk. Unless your issue is that tech entrepreneurs shouldn't talk philosophy?

Well easily it could be both, no? I don't think anyone forces Musk to parrot him, right?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Josquius

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October 11, 2016, 05:33:20 PM
Quote from: Hamilcar on October 11, 2016, 04:45:09 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/simulated-world-elon-musk-the-matrix

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QuoteAccording to this week's New Yorker profile of Y Combinator venture capitalist Sam Altman, there are two tech billionaires secretly engaging scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation. But what does this mean? And what evidence is there that we are, in fact, living in The Matrix?
Its true what they say; capitalism creates useless jobs.
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CountDeMoney

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October 11, 2016, 06:28:28 PM
Quote from: Scipio on October 11, 2016, 04:47:26 PM
Oh, look, secularists looking for God.

Yawn.

:lol:
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