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?
Oh, look, secularists looking for God.
Yawn.
After hearing about that I was like hmm...should we really listen to Musk about anything?
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.
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.
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?
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?
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
Quote:
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.