nick bostrom's simulation hypothesis

[ChiangMai noon]

i'm attracted to this

it makes a fair bit of sense to me

he gets to the simulation argument in 3 fairly simple steps

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

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.



1. seems unlikely to me..........2. is also unlikely theat leaves 3. td is a simulation, so am i and you

i like this argument for its simplicity

[ChiangMai noon]

bostrom discussing the hypothesis in full