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Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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eddieroger wrote: post #88
dansingerman wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't you know? We are living in a simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html (Probably)

OK, I really tried to read that, but my lack of coffee and presence of being really tired made it hard to consume. Was the entire premise of it that one day a being will have computers powerful enough to simulate humanity, so of course they will, and we are the result of it? Some of those assumptions seem pretty damn big, but again, I could just be too tired to read it.

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Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Post by groby_b »

RivieraKid wrote: post #63
dansingerman wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't you know? We are living in a simulated reality: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html (Probably)

"We are in a simulation" is a meaningless statement. It's like saying that there are millinons of invisible unicorns on Earth.

It would be meaningless, if we lived in an undetectable simulation. But IIRC, there's a recent paper that allows us to detect if we live at least in certain kinds of simulations.

Ah, here we go: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-...

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Post by dysoco »

jobu wrote: post #13

It's scary how much this sounds like the world envisioned by Daniel Suarez in Daemon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(technothriller_series) Google has diverless cars, Glasses that overlay information on top of reality, and now is making a sort of game out of it.

I read Daemon a week ago and it was meh... it was somewhat surrealist to me. But nice book anyways.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Post by EricBurnett »

blocke wrote: post #50

I've been so waiting for something like this. While I'm expecting to be disappointed by this early effort the idea is exciting and something that was inevitable. There was a great anime series that sadly doesn't have distribution in the US called Denno Coil[1] that is required viewing for anyone interested in augmented reality. The series follows a group of kids in a city that grow up with Google Glasses type functio…

Even from early beta versions it's been surprisingly addicting. The first time I tried it I went for a walk, and found myself still wandering the streets at 2am, only returning home when my battery was giving out :). If I'm at all average, you won't be too disappointed!

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Post by flannell »

blocke wrote: post #50

I've been so waiting for something like this. While I'm expecting to be disappointed by this early effort the idea is exciting and something that was inevitable. There was a great anime series that sadly doesn't have distribution in the US called Denno Coil[1] that is required viewing for anyone interested in augmented reality. The series follows a group of kids in a city that grow up with Google Glasses type functio…

+1 Loved this series. Had a real sense of 'William Gibson' about it.

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Post by RivieraKid »

groby_b wrote: post #92
RivieraKid wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"We are in a simulation" is a meaningless statement. It's like saying that there are millinons of invisible unicorns on Earth.

It would be meaningless, if we lived in an undetectable simulation. But IIRC, there's a recent paper that allows us to detect if we live at least in certain kinds of simulations. Ah, here we go: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-...

If I understand it correctly, they basically say "Our universe is discrete, therefore we're in a simulation".

Ok, if "being in simulation" == "discreteness", than yes, "being in simulation" is meaningful. But why not just argue whether our universe is discrete? Why introduce the concept of simulation, which evokes a picture of some higher level universe with a big computer running our universe. Which is just an idea in our heads, nothing more.

"We're in a simulation" implies that our universe is discrete, nothing more, so it's meaningless in a sense.

(Other problem is that if we're in a non-discrete universe, we may be able to make non-discrete software. But that's not the main point of what I tried to say.)

Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Post by imodgames »

DrewHintz wrote: post #25

[Edit: Looks like I currently have no invites left. As I get more, I'll give them out and update this post.] I think I have a few invites to give out. Let me know if you'd like one. P.S. I'm Resistance using the name drew

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Re: Google Launches Ingress, a Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game

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Post by EthanHeilman »

dysoco wrote: post #94
jobu wrote: post #13

It's scary how much this sounds like the world envisioned by Daniel Suarez in Daemon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(technothriller_series) Google has diverless cars, Glasses that overlay information on top of reality, and now is making a sort of game out of it.

I read Daemon a week ago and it was meh... it was somewhat surrealist to me. But nice book anyways.

Daemon is only half the book, read the other half called Freedom_TM.
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