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"It's more moral for a doctor to kill a germ than to allow the germ to kill his patient. The germ wants to live. The patient wants to live. But the patient has moral precedence because he's at a highe...
A virtual machine is a common example of simulation. It can take the description of a (virtual) "computer" state and continue the execution from that point on. You can simulate a huge computer given a...
“There are two types of people in the world, those who divide everybody into types and those who do not”. I am part of the second type ;) Is the text above true or false? I augmented this amusing quot...
A friend told me once that we are living in an Universe full of unprovable truths. He was referring to the Gödel's incompleteness theorems. Without being very formal, this says that there are many mat...