shiwani | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 18 2008 | books, culture, world
I saw a lecture that this guy gave online. I don't always agree with him (he seems really into the Freudian school of psych) but his ideas are fascinating all the same...
Quoted: Why are people around the world so very different? What makes us live, buy, even love as we do? The answers are in the codes.
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by Nick Bostrom, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University. Great job title!
Quoted: This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.
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secret wars comic book covers. you can't tell me this isn't sweet~ :P
FYI for the comic geeks - notice the lower left hand corner. this was originally shown to show 'first run' comics vs. reprints. the reprints had bar-codes. also if you notice they show the black custome of spiderman (which you later learn is venom).
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