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 faxenkaetzchen rated 20 months ago -
Nick Bostrom
Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
From the page: "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...
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- 16-Bit rated 3 months ago
- But if it's a simulation it is one among an unimaginable amount of other countless simulations. Just imagine when we are able to run a billion of similar simulations and then those simulations themselves advance to create more simulations.... It would be pretty much infinite.
- Predak rated 4 months ago
- We are SIM
- fabius rated 5 months ago
- postmodern brain-in-a-vat argument
- arleas rated 4 months ago
- Didn't Rene Descartes already do this one? How can he prove he exists? Well he thinks, therefore he exists... this is sorta the same thing. If your simulation is contemplating whether or not they're a simulation, then isn't the simulation a failure? Time to abort and start over? What does it say about us that we play simulations? Would a simulator simulate the people playing The Sims 2? What about when the Sims play games? So now we're a simulation running a simulation of a person playing a simulation? (Not of the exact same things mind you, but still)... This is pointless drivel! I've got body aches... that's no simulation. I get taxed by the corrupt government who fakes a war (LOL SIMULATION!!!) to get us to pay $4+ a gallon to fill the pockets of their buddies... If that's a simulation, that's a fucked up simulation.
- Lambdoid rated 5 months ago
- Interesting idea, but completely unfalsifiable, much like the existence of God. The only way you can answer this question is if you step outside the bounds of the simulation, which you can't unless our simulation has networking and then you'd just be in another simulation.
- pernicious rated 8 months ago
- Too funny. Of course we are.
 monkeysaurus rated 4 months ago- From the page: "Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation." I don't think I need to elaborate further on my choice of thumb direction.
- Schitso rated 4 months ago
- I thought of this kind of thing when I was seven.
- orbital rated 5 months ago
- A mathematical explanation for the Matrix?
- fraterzaza rated 6 months ago
- No we are not but the hypothesis and the arguement is sound. It is more likely that we are all an extension of me.
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