There’s a 50 percent chance we’re living in a simulation, according to a 2003 landmark paper. Since then, scientists have been pondering the possibilities.
one of the regulars at my local coffee shop, known for overstaying his welcome, excitedly explained to me that each simulation has rules, and the rule for ours is that its beings—meaning us—are primarily motivated by fear. awesome. courtesy of w. w. norton & company buy this book at...
There’s a 50 percent chance we’re living in a simulation, according to a 2003 landmark paper. Since then, scientists have been pondering the possibilities.
This paper examines the impact of simulation, hyperreality, and consumerism on Don Delillos novel White Noise. It discusses how the novel pictures technology and mass media as an empire of signs and codes that erase or implode meaning. TV, radio reports and tidbits, and medical imaging ...
"There's a billion to one chance we're living in base reality," Elon Musk said tonight on stage at Recode's Code Conference, meaning that one of the most influential and powerful figures in tech thinks that it's overwhelmingly likely we're just characters living inside a simulation. The ...
As philosopher Joshua Rasmussen has pointed out, the stuff of non-sense (meaning, stuff that is non-sensing) is simply the wrong material to create the stuff of sense: like trying to build a prime minister from prime numbers, it’s just not going to happen. The (quantitative) amount, sh...
Typical Shikumen Residence, literally meaning “Stone Warehouse Gate”, is regarded as the most representative house style of Shanghai. This sort of residence combines the___styles of southern China and western countries. These residences can date back to the 1870s, when the Taiping Rebellion agai...
In this paper, we propose an unsupervised neural network allowing a robot to learn sensory-motor associations with a delayed reward. The robot task is to learn the "meaning" of pictograms in order to "survive" in a maze. First, we introduce a new neural conditioning rule probabilistic conditi...
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