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- keeling0ver, on 10/10/2007, -31/+350Wow, if this is a simulation then let me be the first to give the simulators a big '***** you' for putting me in the same simulation as the neocons. Might I also suggest that there are plenty of other groups that should be put up for deletion *cough* Al-Qaeda *cough* Westboro Baptists
- thepuma77, on 10/10/2007, -30/+244You mean "There's a 20% Chance we're living inside a matrix".
We don't live inside a Hollywood film. - m0d3s7m1k3, on 10/10/2007, -15/+190Shortly after Alex Jones was elected as Morpheus.
- Sauwan, on 10/10/2007, -14/+165******. They're on to me.*
NOTHING TO SEE HERE PEOPLE. - jason469, on 10/10/2007, -6/+140In other news, 20 Diggers jumped to their deaths today, because they thought they we're "living in the Matrix".
- haski, on 10/10/2007, -5/+135I'm the only real person here and all of you just exist virtually in my head. Now beat this!
- gnick, on 10/10/2007, -4/+111This just in: 87% of the numbers you find on the internet are completely arbitrary.
- jesuswuzanalien, on 10/10/2007, -5/+105Wait.. so which pill did we take?
- flashboy131, on 10/10/2007, -11/+107Cheney = Agent Smith
/Shivers - gwhardyiv, on 10/10/2007, -1/+86Does this mean I don't have to go to work today?
- KevenM, on 11/07/2007, -4/+85As long as the simulation isn't being run off of Windows, then I'm cool with it
- WarpFox, on 11/07/2007, -3/+77Warning- Incoming game. Warning- Incoming game.
- roostersheep, on 01/16/2009, -3/+63http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
As a child I was so sure of that!
On topic of the matrix idea though, I really like it! It's much more rational than religion, and more exciting than science - in fact, I guess it could co-exist with science.
Actually it could co-exist with religion too! We could all pray to the sysAdmin! - somespecial, on 10/10/2007, -7/+64I think I remember talking that philosopher on second life.
- wyrdness, on 10/10/2007, -5/+59Because there isn't a philosophy category on Digg, so science is the next best choice?
- Osjpr, on 10/10/2007, -18/+71Why is this in the science category?
- chase001, on 10/10/2007, -10/+61I think the neocons would be considered viruses then.
- jrizzo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+49I for one, welcome our easily entertained overlords.
- olexij, on 10/10/2007, -5/+52Therefore, Buddhists are right, anything is an illusion.
- mcnappy, on 10/10/2007, -6/+52The answer is 42. We are simulating the question to that answer.
- altered, on 10/10/2007, -1/+44Maybe I can sell out a few people I know for some riches and a juicy steak?
- matude, on 10/10/2007, -2/+44Actually the word matrix doesn't mean 'huge network of people connected to machines, that run virtual life with out brains, while feeding on us' either..
- Afreyt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+42Magic is what people call technology they don't understand. You can get pictures from around the globe instantly by pointing a magic wand at a box and pushing a button. You can fly through the air in other magic boxes. You can create cold on a hot day, freeze water into ice in July. What the ***** do you ungrateful bastards want now? Eternal youth? Your best sages are working on it, complicated spells take time.
- Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -4/+43That, my friend, is a photoshop waiting to happen.
- timusca, on 10/10/2007, -5/+37The ironic thing about this being on Digg is that it would, in fact, prove Creationism.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33Um, 68% of stats are made up on the spot?
- KingBabi, on 10/10/2007, -4/+34Know how I know it's not a computer simulation? Because it's not raining dildos, that's why.
Seriously, if it were, you'd have so much crazy ***** going you'd go insane. Plus, who wants to simulate people like us who sit at their computers all day? - KevenM, on 10/10/2007, -0/+30And 5 out of 4 people can't do fractions properly
- SolipsismX, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31Where the hell is he getting 20% There are way too many ridiculous assumptions in this theory. Somebody should introduce this guy to occam's razor
- CDoug03, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29there is no spoon
- ElwoodHerring, on 10/10/2007, -0/+26There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams - alok0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26lets hack it: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/998.html
- jaromir68, on 10/10/2007, -2/+26Is that why my life is boring and mundane? I always knew it had to be somebody's fault--its not like I have 'freewill' or anything.
- nyx210, on 10/10/2007, -3/+26A 20% chance? Where in the hell do they get the numbers from?
- Crosshare, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23linked, you get the Digg award for outbound link of the day, that was awesome!
- corr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23Someone has been watching 'The Thirteenth Floor' recently. This is much more similar to that movie than 'The Matrix.'
- adgreene, on 10/10/2007, -5/+27...and an 80% chance that you aren't.
- mstoneburner, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24Wow, some people just muddle everything up with politics. What a sad existence that must be.
- DangerMouse9, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Yeah, 85% of all people know that.
- betterth, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22I disagree completely. I feel that you've fallen prey to the exact same level of disbelief and limitation on technology as every naysayer has in the past two centuries.
Within two hundred years I would bet anything that not only would we have computers powerful enough to simulate the universe and the brains of all the humans in it, we'd have the scientific knowledge to program it. And if the human brain is incapable of discovering it, the robotic aides we create will do it. And if not, than a thousand other things we can't begin to imagine but will be come a reality within our lifetimes will do it.
Two hundred years ago, if you told them you could take moving pictures, transmit them _through the air_ to anywhere in the world, they would have laughed, or burned you at the stake for being a witch (depends on where are you, I guess). A hundred years ago, if you had said that we'd have built a research home in space, been to the moon, created computers and robots, and had traveled so fast that we could circle the globe every 90 minutes, they too would have thought that you were insane.
I know you get the point, but it's just silly to say "In the future, humans won't be able to do this", because no statement has ever been disproved more times than that one. - Myztry, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20You are the only awareness that exists. I'm just part of your imagination, as was the Matrix Film. You've just gone insane from being so god damn lonely. This is your matrix, and now you're even picking on yourself. I'm not real. I'm actually just you.
- jrizzo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19We are not a simulation unless it rains dildos... I am totally stealing that one!
However, as far as no crazy/insane ***** happening around the world...wake the ***** up. - KingBabi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+19In 98% of comments on Digg concerning statistics, bad jokes will be made.
- mike302, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17I wonder what size screen this guy's using? Better yet, is he usign an AMD or Intel?
- thejoker86, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17this is old news... we are all brains in a vatt... this argument and hypothesis has been around for a couple of hundred years now, it is infact what the matrix was based on. The brothers who wrote the matrix were infact philosophy majors and based the movie around quite a few philosophical arguments.
- Djerrid, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri:
We are all aware that the senses can be deceived, the eyes fooled. But how can we be sure our senses are not being deceived at any particular time, or even all the time? Might I just be a brain in a tank somewhere, tricked all my life into believing in the events of this world by some insane computer? And does my life gain or lose meaning based on my reaction to such solipsism?
Project PYRRHO, Specimen 46, Vat 7
Activity Recorded M.Y. 2302.22467
TERMINATION OF SPECIMEN ADVISED - Piedramente, on 10/10/2007, -13/+27Except the red pill takes you farther from reality, not closer to it.
- DivisibleByZero, on 10/10/2007, -3/+17FTFA: "if you accept a pretty reasonable assumption of Dr. Bostrom’s, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation."
20 percent means mathematical certainty? - meetthescott, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Or a multi-dimensional array of numbers, for that matter.
- hoopee, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13I've said it before and I'll say it again every time this comes up.. So what? It doesn't make your life any less painful to live ;)
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