Bullshit and BullshittersWe'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
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 13 Jan 2011, 12:55)
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A mate of mine has an interesting bit of spiel on thisIf a simulation of reality exists that is sophisticated and complex enough to contain another simulation of reality, it creates the possibility of infinite recurrence - imagine it like a mandlebrot set.
If such a universe exists (and there's no known reason why it couldn't, not that that's really an argument) the odds of being in the one true universe and not one of the infinite sub-set universes are practically zero.
David Chalmers once used the example of a hyper-intelligent Sim from the Sims game, that was so intelligent it could work out the very algorithms that define his reality - that Sim could never work out the hardware of the PC its reality was run on, let alone the intentions of the Creator.
Probably bullshit.
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