You Are Going To Die Needlessly

More from the profound Nick Bostrom:

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

"Searching for a cure for aging is not just a nice thing that we should perhaps one day get around to. It is an urgent, screaming moral imperative... If we get the cure in 25 years rather than in 24 years, a population greater than that of Canada will die as a result. In this matter, time equals life, at a rate of approximately 70 lives per minute."

simulation argument

Is this a simulated reality?

The simulation argument, claimed by the philosopher Nick Bostrom, investigates the possibility that we may be living in a simulation. The argument attempts to prove the disjunction of three hypotheses (that is, that at least one of the following three propositions must be true), that:

either

• the human race will never reach a level of technology where we can run simulations of reality so detailed they can be mistaken for reality; or
• races who do reach such a level do not tend to run such simulations; or
• we are almost certainly living in such a simulation.

-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality