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We've had questions about lies and liars in the past, but this time we're asking about the sort of fantasist who constantly claims they've got a helicopter in the garden or was "second onto the balcony at the Iranian Embassy siege". Tell us about the cobblers you've been told, or the complete lies you've come out with.

Thanks to dozer for the suggestion

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 12:55)
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True
Anyone that understands computability and doesn't believe in a supernatural has a very hard time arguing that this is the real universe.
(I helped save b3ta! Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 19:19, 2 replies)
It always starts with
10 REM ** Big Earth Simulation **
20 REM ** by **
30 REM ** SLVA **
40 DIM person (6800000000,10)
50 LET person(1) = person(man,chinese,28,bus-driver,married,dullatparties)

etc etc, you get the idea
(I helped save b3ta! sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 19:27, closed)
Oh, come on
completely implausible.



Any advanced creator would at least use OO
(ChaRleyTroniC is invincible with his chips and cheese, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 19:54, closed)
You'd want something streamlined and not clunky
In fact, I was going to suggest Assembly, but I don't know any.
(I helped save b3ta! sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 22:29, closed)
Ahm.
I do know assembly and I still use a high level language for the major AI.

Quark gluon interactions, though, yeah straight down to the metal.
(I helped save b3ta! DukeEuphoria Comes highly reccomended, Wed 19 Jan 2011, 14:26, closed)

they also have a hard time arguing that it isn't... You can only say 'it's possible/conceivable etc'. A creationist can say the same, albeit we consider their ideas unlikely. And of course, we'd still like to know where the computers that created the simulation came from.
(I helped save b3ta! enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 19:30, closed)
Well, no
Once you accept that simulating an indistinguishable subset of the universe is a computable task and that a huge amount of accidental computation happens within the universe the numbers start to look convincing.
(I helped save b3ta! Ungersven would support SpankyHanky's patreon, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 19:45, closed)

starts to look convincing...yes - which is my point.

dont get me wrong - i agree with what you and slva are saying in principle, but i'm adding that you cant overstate your case
(I helped save b3ta! enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 19:58, closed)
This is my point.
Although the idea of a 'God' is constantly being nibbled away at by scientific discoveries, it still remains to be ultimately (dis)proved either way by its very nature.

I suspect the computer parts were bought from ebuyer, except for the graphics card, that was from Overclock.co.uk
(I helped save b3ta! sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 19:52, closed)

yes, as someone famous one said, the great philosophical questions remain because they are unanswerable.
(I helped save b3ta! enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Tue 18 Jan 2011, 19:59, closed)

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