That suggests that if we score two goals we’re going down. ‘Don’t score more than one unless you can be sure of scoring a third’ is presumably the message that Potter is giving.
This.
You would think that positioning BDB just beyond the back post would have the same result but a) he doesn’t go there, and b) quite often we don’t beat the first man, making this strategy redundant.
While I’d agree that neither are proven (and I didn’t claim either were), I think that ‘fringe science’ is a bit of a push when Scientific American reckons that simulation theory is roughly 50/50.
Unproven, yes; profound implications, yes; a plausible theory worthy of consideration, yes imo.
It’s absolutely not a conspiracy theory, as you say. My post was a response to another user’s post dissing the theory; I was merely providing a counter argument.
Computer simulation: an age-old hypothesis, dating back to at least Plato’s cave allegory. Recent philosophical research really kicked into gear on the back of Prof Nick Bostrom’s 2003 paper (https://academic.oup.com/pq/article-abstract/53/211/243/1610975), and has been assessed by Scientific...
Yep, I agree.
As in so many areas though, the actions of the few have consequences for the many. In some cases for the better (BoB, for example), in some for the worse (CV-19, for example).