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![]() We imagine that a higher likelihood of this scenario would lead to a lower likelihood of our existence in a simulation. Many people believe there is a high likelihood humans will go extinct in the near future. Bostrom also explores a third scenario in which posthumans become capable of creating simulations, but none of these posthumans choose to do so - for ethical or other reasons.) (This is because a single programmer mind would be able to create billions of programmed minds, which would affect the programmer to programmed mind ratio in any universe. “programmed universe”), or we are very likely to be in a simulation. ![]() Like the previous post, this post is meant to be lighthearted and informal.Īs Nick Bostrom, David Chalmers, Elon Musk and others have pointed out, either civilizations fail before reaching the level of technology necessary to create a full and convincing simulation ( i.e. Instead, it focuses only on how future AI superintelligence and agency would affect the likelihood of the creation of (and our existence in) a simulation. This new post is meant to be agnostic as to the cause of a potential extinction event. Preface: This is a rewrite of a previous post. ![]() ![]() Ocker moved his family of four to downtown Salem to experience firsthand a season with the witch, visiting all of its historical sites and macabre attractions. For the fall of 2015, occult enthusiast and Edgar Award-winning writer J.W. ![]() Every October, this small city of 40,000 swells to close to half a million as witches, goblins, ghouls, and ghosts (and their admirers) descend on Essex Street. But Salem is a seasonal town-and its season happens to be Halloween. A single event in its 400 years of history-the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-transformed it into the Capital of Creepy in America. Salem, Massachusetts, may be the strangest city on the planet. But Salem is a seasonal town-and its season happens to b. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He kept me close because he needed to watch me. My presence here was indicative of both the respect Tobiah held for me, and the respect he had for my dangerous abilities. Both suites were located in the Dragon Wing, the area typically reserved for Indigo Kingdom royalty. It wasn’t a long walk from Tobiah’s apartments to mine. A moment later we were out the door, the wraith boy following at a short distance. “Only because you asked so nicely.” I grabbed the leather-bound notebook I used as a diary and strode after the young sergeant James had indicated. But that didn’t mean he wasn’t also guarding the rest of the palace from me. And with the wraith boy in the palace, we all needed to be even more alert. ![]() He needed me to obey, to take the guard and keep myself safe. ![]() A darkness flashed through his eyes: his failure today, the failure of King Terrell’s bodyguards not even a week ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This research paper is focused on how Willa Cather portrays the inner rebellion and the passion of a female character, Marian Forrester in her novel A Lost Lady. ![]() This research concludes that Cather’s Marian has dismantled the social hierarchy created by the male superiority or patriarchy in the novel. As a qualitative research, by using radical feminism as a tool of interpretation, the researcher collected textual evidenced from Cather’s novel and interpreted them to fulfill the objective of this research. Marian goes against male hegemony and to create her separate identity. At that time female were not allowed to enjoy their freedom like the males. Marian seems to transcend her husband’s order. down in her heart she is not happy with her husband. Though she is married and living happily with her husband, somewhere deep. She walks against the social norms and she is presented as a rigid character who dismantles the male created hierarchy woman as a subordinate being in the society. ![]() |