FrankH
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| Quote (Venus Mousetrap @ Mar. 24 2010,08:08) | 1) I hate Mornington Crescent because everyone looks at my favourite card game, Mao, and says 'Hey, that's Mornington Crescent!' and then they won't take it seriously (or at least, with the minimum seriousness required for Mao).
2) Sewell's essay is quite frightening. | Quote | He went on to talk about how genetic accidents and survival of the fittest produced even more complex collections of atoms, and how something called "intelligence" allowed some of these collections of atoms to design computers and laser printers and the Internet. But when he finished, I still didn't know how to incorporate natural selection -- or intelligence -- into my model, so I never did get the simulation to work. I decided the model was still missing a force or two -- or a smarter random number generator.
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It's hypothetical, true, but this is about as bad as the guy who wrote a moon simulator that left out various details such as, you know, the fact that bodies rotate, or having more than two bodies in the system, or tidal locking, or anything that scientists actually use to model moon formation with, and then declaring that because his sim shows the moon can't form naturally, maybe we should look outside the universe for answers. |
Good thing that there's no Jupiter nor Sun to mess up his calculations.
My guess, a 15 year old with Dr. Austin's book and a want to be a hacker.
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