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Saying Hello to Emerald City (Dec 31 2005 08:42 GMT) - From Multipolarity Memes: The probability of living in a simulation appears to depend on the ability of the world to produce lots of simulations of itself: so in our particular case you can see upon analysis that the evidence for living in a simulation is quite strong - we are after all living in the computer age and we are about to witness the birth of the realistic computer simulation. There is a self-reinforcing attractor effect here. Being in a world which demonstrates that creating simulations of itself is a causal norm increases the probability that this world is itself a simulation, so long as at least some of those simulations being created are extremely similiar to the original copy in the sense that they would have to preserve both the feeling that it is the original copy and its ability to copy itself. |
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Souvenirs de guerre (Dec 31 2005 08:42 GMT) - Mon récent article sur la loi de février 2005 m'a valu quelques réponses avec des sous-entendus peu sympathiques... Le texte suivant fait partie d'une nouvelle que j'ai écrite, et montre qu'on peut dénoncer le colonialisme et garder l'amitié du peuple français. Vivre une guerre, (...) |
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Seems like some CO cops need a ?freed? mind. (Dec 31 2005 08:40 GMT) - HoT editor Chris Bennett provided, as an item of interest, an article written by George Rice, a self professed police officer of (Sterling?) CO. I believe the item was meant for SG, but I wanted to pipe off. Officer Rice starts by mocking the very people who pay his salary by calling them “latter-day hippies” |
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Women's Rights Laws and African Custom Clash (Dec 31 2005 08:39 GMT) - On a broiling Saturday morning, as more than a dozen women looked on, Sibongile joined 56 other Zulu girls outside a red-and-white striped tent. One by one, they lay on a straw mat beneath the tent; one by one, they received a cursory inspection of their genitals by a woman in a ceremonial beaded hat. As the inspector pronounced judgment on the state of each girl's hymen - "virgin," "nice," "perfect" - each departed to the excited trilling of the women who were observers. |
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Dyiing Languages (Dec 31 2005 08:39 GMT) - Linguists now estimate that half of the more than 6,000 languages currently spoken in the world will become extinct by the end of this century. In reaction, there are numerous efforts to slow the die-off -- from graduate students heading into the field to compile dictionaries; to charitable foundations devoted to the cause, like the Endangered Language Fund; to transnational agencies, some with melancholic names appropriate to the task, like the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages. Chile started a modest program, not long after the ugly debates surrounding Christopher Columbus in 1992, to save Kawesqar (Ka-WES-kar) and Yaghan, the last two native languages of southern Chile. |
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