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Why only the one half? What if I want the other half?
Why only the one half? What if I want the other half?
I would have gone with you to the end, into the very fires of Mordor you piece of shit
I botched that post, especially the first sentence. I meant to say that it relies on human life being real at some point, either in the present or in the past, and doesn’t really rule out alien life at that point
Bostrom’s theory relies on life being real too. If I could rephrase it, his theory is:
1 if humans can simulate a human mind in the future, they will 2 they will probably simulate their ancestors (us) 3 they will probably do it trillions and trillions of times 4 this means that out of trillions of consciousnesses, some are real humans and some are simulations 5 we are either one of the few billion actual living minds or one of the trillions of simulated minds and math says it’s the latter because trillions is more. (He never says trillions, just unspecific words like “countless”)
I think Bostrom is genius but I’ve never found this argument very interesting.
Is this you?
I was thinking last night how weird it is that we can suspend disbelief while watching a movie. Like, we see Tom Cruise on screen and know he’s the most famous person in the world and we saw him alive on TV today, yet we get worried that he’s gonna die in a ten year old movie?
That’s how they get ya