> Although you make a fair point, there are more important things to be angry about, or alternatively we may have found life on venus so go and be not-angry about that.
Your casual dismissal of an entirely legitimate gripe which I do not share has enraged me quite unreasonably[0]. shakes fist
As for the (currently hypothetical) venusians, the existential proof — should it be forthcoming after (if?) probes are sent — may ultimately have a greater societal impact through expansion of the synbio toolbox rather than the implications for the Drake equation and Fermi paradox.
We definitely seem to be living in interesting times. I wonder... does that make it more likely that we are living in a simulation?
The more intricate and symmetrical everything appears to me makes me increasingly sure(er) about the simulation.
But don't talk about it too much, their end goal of the experiment could be to discover the point at which a conscious entity realises that its world is fabricated.
big letters appear in the sky:
GAME OVER
CONTINUE? 3, 2, 1...
Your casual dismissal of an entirely legitimate gripe which I do not share has enraged me quite unreasonably[0]. shakes fist
As for the (currently hypothetical) venusians, the existential proof — should it be forthcoming after (if?) probes are sent — may ultimately have a greater societal impact through expansion of the synbio toolbox rather than the implications for the Drake equation and Fermi paradox.
We definitely seem to be living in interesting times. I wonder... does that make it more likely that we are living in a simulation?
[0] In an entirely abstract sense, that is.