CHICAGO, with its eruptive waves of taxation, can be likened to ancient Pompeii beneath the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, an affluent city oblivious to the rumblings of its own destruction. Pompeii’s wealthy citizens ignored the warning signs, clinging to their comforts until the volcano’s fire and ash consumed them. Likewise, Chicago’s elite seem unwilling to recognize the approach of economic catastrophe. These new tax initiatives, the city’s own fire and ash, may appear sustainable for a time, but the moment of critical eruption may come swiftly, leaving Chicago no longer a sanctuary for anyone.
Human Simulation: Agent-Based Modeling and the Computational Case for Our Reality 1. Introduction In the essay, we introduce the notion that humanity could be a deliberate simulation based on an extremely simple single-celled organism, hardly anything more complex than that. This will allow an (apparently) new interpretation of the notion that humanity is simulated, but that there is no master engineer at a massive number of dials and switches, responsible for every twist and turn of our universe and lives. We begin with the notion that the universe exists and operates under its own laws. So, given the Earth [2] , when and where life first began, it was infused with a living agent, self-actualized, reproductive, and with other basic rules for its operations, interactions, and much of what single-celled organisms do today. The idea from this occurred some years back when writing code in ActionScript (formerly Flash), I was able to create...
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