I'm not much interested in creating bogus/useless "probability estimates". The simulation hypothesis I rate, as I do religion, as "false, barring further evidence". Evidence that the simulation hypothesis is true could be a "physically impossible" inconsistency, like in Heinlein's story "Them". If I became convinced that this was a simulation, I'd become a complete hedonist, why bother with anything else when you are completely under the thumb of whatever's running the simulation.
I'd become a complete hedonist, why bother with anything else when you are completely under the thumb of whatever's running the simulation.
You are completely under the thumb of the physical laws.
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