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Nathan Myhrvold, on the trending topic of whether we all live in a simulation.

It’s a Bloomberg bonanza today. I’ll be going on stage with Will Marshall and Ashlee Vance after lunch (agenda) and then a live interview with Emily Chang around 3:15 and Dana Hull just reported on Planet’s new board member (welcome Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk) and logo.

“The use case that inspires me the most is deforestation,” said CEO Will Marshall. “We’re effectively counting every tree every day, and if someone cuts it down illegally we can catch them in the act.”

2 responses to “Bloomberg Technology Conference in San Francisco Today”

  1. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Yuri Milner suggested that living in a simulation could explain the Fermi Paradox. And "If we are living in a simulation, when would be the right time to turn it off? When we realize we’re in a simulation." The Estonian delivery robot graced the screen (a cool mix of zero-rim panels) HBR rejected Nathan’s analogy as too racy for print: "Invention is to tech as conception is to reproduction"

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  2. Scott FW Avatar
    Scott FW

    For some reason it isn’t working for me to find the interview.
    The question of turning off the simulation when we realize it is a simulation brings up a question I’d not thought of before right now, the question of having access to some mechanism by which to do so.

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