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#121
08-26-2007, 06:14 PM
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Re: How will the world end
Many ideas here:
http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm 
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#122
08-26-2007, 06:23 PM
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Re: How will the world end
When giant squid walk the Earth.
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#123
08-26-2007, 07:40 PM
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Re: How will the world end
Are we talking civilization or all life on the planet?
If we are talking all life, probably nothing humans do. I think to say so is to seriously overestimate our power. Even if we manage to irradiate the entire planet life will still manage to live on. I would say most likely it will be something from outer space. The sun dieing is obvious but I thinks its more likely that a huge meteor collides with the planet or a cosmic storm wipes all the atmosphere off the Earth.
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#124
08-26-2007, 10:21 PM
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Re: How will the world end
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I'm curious how they might have come to that conclusion. What's the story behind that? 10k is just the size of a single town. [/ QUOTE ] I read something about this being deducible from something having to do with the mutation rate of mitochondrial dna. I have heard it described as a bottleneck in the gene pool, or something.
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#125
08-26-2007, 11:16 PM
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Re: How will the world end
Let me help:
http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=revelations+1
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#126
08-26-2007, 11:23 PM
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Re: How will the world end
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[ QUOTE ] There will be a series of events-whether natural disaster OR "MAN-MADE", the sum of which will be the Apocalypse. And while it will be the biblical prediction of the end of time, science will be ready with answers for all....hence the verses 2 Thessolonians 2:11-12...And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth... Ouch. [/ QUOTE ] That God fellow sounds like a fun guy. [/ QUOTE ] That whole first section of chapter 2 is actually quite interesting.
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#127
08-26-2007, 11:37 PM
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Re: How will the world end
Check this out:Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute....also cool is the home page of the Insitute's director
My favorite extinction scenario, hands down, is the possibility that the virtual-life simulation we're all living in will be shut down by the people (who are likely themselves virtual) who created it...this possibility is discussed at length by Nick Bostrom in a paper on his website, but the site has grown so much recently that I can't seem to find it. However he ranks it pretty high up on his list of threats to human survival - in the same ballpark as nuclear annihilation. After that I like the singularity idea. Seems pretty likely actually. I guess technically a singularity will not necessarily mean the end of humanity, but it's highly likely that the AIs will either wipe us out or that we will fuse with them somehow and thus transcend our current notion of humanity. This stuff is seriously the most fascinating ever
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#129
08-26-2007, 11:48 PM
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Re: How will the world end
I just read the NY times article, and I'm not quite sure I understand...I'm sure you know more, so let me know if any of this sounds right.
As humans with intelligence and technology, we anticipate that some day we'll have computers that have tremendous processing power. So tremendous that we'd be able to run simulations of humanity's entire existence. At that point we realize if we can do something that extraordinary, it's really not extraordinary at all and we may just be a simulation ourselves. Our ability to create this suggests that we may just be a part of the same thing in the first place. Is that the idea?
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#130
08-27-2007, 12:55 AM
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Re: How will the world end
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I just read the NY times article, and I'm not quite sure I understand...I'm sure you know more, so let me know if any of this sounds right. As humans with intelligence and technology, we anticipate that some day we'll have computers that have tremendous processing power. So tremendous that we'd be able to run simulations of humanity's entire existence. At that point we realize if we can do something that extraordinary, it's really not extraordinary at all and we may just be a simulation ourselves. Our ability to create this suggests that we may just be a part of the same thing in the first place. Is that the idea? [/ QUOTE ] I don't really know a ton about this, but I think that's not quite what he's saying...although we may just be thinking about the same thing in different words. His argument as I remember it goes like this - provided we don't go extinct, people will one day be able to build supercomputers powerful enough to create humanity simulations as detailed as what we take to be "reality"...whether you accept this premise hinges on your opinion of this tech's eventual feasibility - it seems very plausible to me given the rapid progress of computing power in recent decades but i'm no engineer - when people develop this technology, they will use it (out of curiosity, boredom, whatever) to create an extremely large number of such simulations....this premise seems very plausible to me, look at how obsessed people are already with creating & using virtual worlds - as there will be untold millions of these simulations, it therefore follows either that a, humanity will destroy itself before developing this technology or b, we are overwhelmingly more likely to be living in one of the billions of virtual worlds rather than the one real one.
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