"Are you living in a computer simulation?"

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Source : Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic (2011). “Global Catastrophic Risks”, p.141, Oxford University Press

Nick Bostrom

#Computer Quotes #Simulation Quotes

“I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.”
“...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”
“We are born of love. Love is our mother.”
“I've always done the safest thing, which is to assume that it's going to feel like that, to assume that you're going to feel like a freshman in a group of seniors - if you expect the worst, then it's never going to be that bad.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's called the Santa Claus effect; the holiday period is traditionally a strong cycle.”
“From the end of the bar, the bartender threw a sidelong look at him, so Clarence pulled out a broken Bluetooth headset and fixed it to his ear. "I learned this trick while traveling with Mikey," Clarence told Nick. "Makes my brand of crazy the same as everyone else's.”
“Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.”
“Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.”

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