Would you go to a tourist place where your internet that you intend to use to keep in touch with home sucks? Maybe you will, but how many like you?
I know this is
Option C : Mobile providers raise the standard charges more than necessary and justify the raise saying ordinary people need to pay for the yuppies who roam Europe in their sports cars while chatting on their phones
Or low paid workers going abroad to find work can afford to phone home. Or workers who commute across borders don't have to turn their phones off.
4. What are the chances of us being at the bottom of an infinite chain of simulators?
The Bostrom paper explicitly refers to "posthumans" running ancestor simulations. If our sim has not yet reached the posthuman level, we will be at the bottom.
I come to
/. for the comments, but with the new Beta, I can't even see anything! It just says: ''Shazbot! We ran into some trouble getting the comments. Try again... na-nu, na-nu!
It seems like the "developers" need to take some advice from people who actually know what they are doing. I'm happy to help explain what graceful degradation means if they like...
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce