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Do we live in a simulation?


syd syside

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oo, there's a wiki article

http://en.wikipedia....tion_hypothesis

 

A technologically mature "posthuman" civilization would have enormous computing power. Based on this empirical fact, the simulation argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true:

 

1. The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero;

 

2. The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero;

 

3. The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one.

 

If (1) is true, then we will almost certainly go extinct before reaching posthumanity. If (2) is true, then there must be a strong convergence among the courses of advanced civilizations so that virtually none contains any relatively wealthy individuals who desire to run ancestor-simulations and are free to do so. If (3) is true, then we almost certainly live in a simulation. In the dark forest of our current ignorance, it seems sensible to apportion one's credence roughly evenly between (1), (2), and (3).

Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation

 

:wtf:

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