Take the Red Pill, Nick, and Discover Intelligent Design Theory
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Red Pill, Nick, and Discover Intelligent Design Theory  So, the
benighted brites at the New York Times are suddenly all agog
over the deep ponderings of Oxford's Nick Bostrom (never mind
that it isn't really a new idea at all -- it's been bubbling up
for a few years now). What exactly has them so excited, you ask?
Well, Bostrom thinks we all might just be an eleborate Sims game
for some sort of advanced video game addict. Seriously.  He has
"thoughtfully" proposed the idea that this world, your reality,
is nothing more than a very advanced simulation, an illusion, if
you will. In fact, he thinks that this simulation might just be
running inside another simulation, inside another simulation,
inside another simulation on and on back, forever and ever amen.
Bostrom put it this way:  Sounds pretty circular, doesn't it?
And his conclusion? "Unless we are now living in a simulation,
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