It does seem highly unlikely, assuming MWI and quantum immortality to be correct, that we are experiencing the ‘first instance’ of progression into a posthuman paradigm. Re-living a simulated version of it seems almost infinitely more probable.

I wonder how different to the ‘first instance’ this reality actually is?

Many Worlds seems to guarantee first person immortality. But a big objection raised to this is why I/we finf myself/ourselves of normal age as due to random sampling we should be of ridiculously advanced age.

We appear to live in an age where rapid developments in technology may be leading to a ‘technological singularity’ in the near future. This may involve full immersion virtual reality and mind uploading.

Many Worlds and QM makes this almost inevitable as this method of survival is far more probable than surviving a large meteor strike, a global nuclear war, or a plague. These things are eliminated from our likely first person experience stack, so to speak.

So, fast foreward into the future (near or distant) and we are technologically advanced…..but BORED! We hanker for the good old days when we were young again. So we simply plug into a simulation called the late 20th/early 21st century’.

I supect there are two versions of such a programme. One where we realise we are in a simulation, and one where we don’t. When we complete this one (where we don’t know) we may then choose to re-enter bits of it with the knowledge that its just a simulation and play around in it. Maybe relive old experiences and do things differently.

And when we get bored with that….go back into a full scale virtual life with no prerequisite knowledge again. Just pick it off the shelf at a future Tesco, take it home, plug in and play for 70 years or whatever.

That, with a great probability, is where we are now.

I did all this on my XPERIA X10. But I have a problem. Whenever I delete the old contacts2.db and replace it with the new one, I open the contacts app and the new one with all the numbers and stuff gets immediately replaced by the old one again which appears from nowhere. Funny thing is, if I tap on the call log I can see all the old calls with all the correct contact names. And then, one by one, the names get deleted and only call record show, and my phonebook is back to having none of the contacts from the file I just copied. What can I do?

I have my contacts2.db in my pc. How do i copy it back to the phone? Just put the file in the SD card and type the commands n the terminal?

Thanks!

Unfortunately, call log and mms restore didn’t work going from 2.2 to 2.3. Not a huge priority for me…

So, 2025 seems likely.

This is incorrect. You are looking at a compute node with 100 TFLOPS and 10GB. Current computers are on the order of 30GFLOPS and 30GB of main memory, but 30MB of cache memory. Thus we would expect your 100TFLOPS compute node to have at least 30GB of cache memory. So you should compare to level 2 cache memory access times, not main memory access times.