{"id":6643,"date":"2014-07-24T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T22:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6643"},"modified":"2014-07-24T15:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T22:55:38","slug":"we-are-the-chosen-of-basilisk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6643","title":{"rendered":"We are the Chosen of Basilisk"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRAIN: I guess people who are so excited about basilisk<\/a> never really thought about god too hard
\nWILLIAM: it’s also theoretically possible to test whether or not we’re inside a simulation
\nWILLIAM: at least, a computer simulation<\/p>\n

WILLIAM: there are large scale effects in cosmology that couldn’t be carried out by a computer, similar to how your computer doesn’t render the stuff behind you in a game when you’re not looking at it.
\nWILLIAM: Brian Greene talks about this in “The Hidden Reality”<\/A> and puts it a lot better than I could.
\nWILLIAM: aka if it were a computer doing it it would have to be a computer as large and complex as the actual universe
\nWILLIAM: anyway I imagine by the time we were able to test and successfully determine we were in a simulation roko’s basilisk would end the simulation
\nBRAIN: maybe we are in a CoreWar and that would be the point of the simulation<\/p>\n

WILLIAM: personally I believe the baby jeebus created the earth 4000 years ago and the singularity will never happen
\nBRAIN: I believe we are the wrath of an evil god intended to subjugate the entire universe
\nWILLIAM: The thought of the human race being like the necromongers in chronicles of riddick<\/a> is so fucking awesome
\nWILLIAM: a malevolent entity spreading across the cosmos being awesome as shit<\/p>\n

BRAIN: it’s a future I can endorse
\nSCOTT: This also minds me of Philip K Dick’s view of the universe from VALIS<\/a>
\nBRAIN: when they did the mirror universe episode of “Star Trek: Enterprise”<\/a> where it was only the evil humans wrecking the whole universe, I remember a bunch of us going “\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6why isn’t the whole show like this?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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