The Problem With Music

Steve Albini lays it out. He explains the general life cycle of a band being signed to a major label. We've all known that major labels screw over the artist, and have done so for a long time. The article gives a very quick and dirty outline into how badly screwed the artists are when signing to a major label.

http://www.petdance.com/actionpark/albini/the-problem-with-music.html

Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?

This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.

I absolutely love the thought that we could be living in a computer simulation. It kind of boggles the mind to think that there could be posthuman civilizations that have created simulations of their evolutionary history, only to find the simulation creating its own simulation. How many simulations could exist? Do we somehow see this in certain parallel universe theories? I wish we could answer these questions in this lifetime.

http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html