modelcadet wrote:
>I know for a certainty that I will bring about, with my actions, the PTS.
If you are able to access any pulldown menus that control reality, please let me know. I really want to modify my personal character sheet stats and abilities...
John : )
That would be pretty cool, for sure. Download a hex editor into your brain and start rolling for unique magical items. I personally like the idea of the save/reload button on life. That would be most supremely awesome.
Back in reality, I did some work within my computer music studies on using a melodic interface (because speech isn't nearly so accurate just yet). My dream for when I move into my room next year is to set up some microphones so that, when given a melodic cue, I can start outputting with various effects and loops.
Great, the bible all over.
That'd be nice. Seems almost anything would be more beneficial to Humanity than Christianity. But seriously, though, I was thinking about this: what if we made a website, called it Bible2.0 or some jazz, and just had people put up parables and vote on metaphysical wisdom. I don't entirely know how it'd work, but alls I know is that you can slap a 2.0 label on just about anything! It's like the Wild West.
Exactly.
Due to the uncertainty of what may be real and what the nature of life is, I make the assumption that this universe, and hence this life, is the ultimate reality and that free will is not an illusion. That only what I observe with my five senses is true.
Taking this assumption into account, my main purpose is then to maximize my well being and survival according to my observations of this world.
Dwelling in fantasy and delusion, such as religion and modelcadet assumptions, would only result in risk.
Well, the point was that Nick Bostrom argues against you, that this is most likely a simulation. And free will? Are you fo serious? Take a step back, take a deep breath, and pause to realize just how ridiculous the notion of free will truly is. You actually have 6 senses. You're double counting the olfactory sense, and discounting the vestibular and kinesthetic senses. I'm glad you've done some logotherapy. Fantasy and delusion? Are not memes just as real as frogs and squirrels and nanobacteria? Any good investor knows that managing risk is essential to developing a robust return, that avoiding risk isn't always the best policy. I did ask for your thoughts. So keep em coming.
Ah yes, if modelcadet is indeed the center of this simulation, could you also modify my algorithm to make me richer? 
I like to think of one type of singularity as the transition point from a scarcity economy to a surplus economy. So, ok. But I will point out. Under my logic, from your perpsective, it is not I, but you, that will bring about the PTS.
