20% chance were living in the "matrix"

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

Dr. Bostrom assumes that technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or “posthumans,” could run “ancestor simulations” of their evolutionary history by creating virtual worlds inhabited by virtual people with fully developed virtual nervous systems.
Some computer experts have projected, based on trends in processing power, that we will have such a computer by the middle of this century, but it doesn’t matter for Dr. Bostrom’s argument whether it takes 50 years or 5 million years. If civilization survived long enough to reach that stage, and if the posthumans were to run lots of simulations for research purposes or entertainment, then the number of virtual ancestors they created would be vastly greater than the number of real ancestors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/science/14tier.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=22bfff4070a81187&ex=1344744000

kinda crazy when you think about it, and its not just some yahoo, a professor at oxford univeristy... also not to mention published by the new york times

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[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

meh, we will be taken over by Mexicans long before then.

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

That would explain why Michael Bay is still getting movie deals.....

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

I had a friend think that his name was Neal the whole time.

 

[Chevillac 5,000+ posts]

so they gonna stop making stupid people in this matrix?

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

I had a friend think that his name was Neal the whole time.

What does that have to do with the matrix?

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

which is why everyone should smoke pot and have lots of ***

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

I had a friend think that his name was Neal the whole time.

Neo?

 

[DejaWiz 5,000+ posts]

OMG I'm in a first-person shooter! That's awesome.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

Neo?

C'mon now. I was waiting for his reply first. You're no fun.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

which is why everyone should smoke pot and have lots of ***

I refuse to be a hippie stuck in the 60's!

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

Read the post below his.

bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[bdawson72 5,000+ posts]

Yes, he thought neo's name was neal.