JGWeissman comments on It's not like anything to be a bat - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JGWeissman 27 March 2010 08:19:35PM 2 points [-]

The anthropic principle seems to imply that our subjective experiences take place in amazingly common ancestor simulations that don't simulate animals in sufficient detail to give them subjective experience. That I find myself experiencing being a human rather than being a bat, even though bats are in principle capable of subjective experience, is because there are vastly more detailed simulations of humans than of bats.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 27 March 2010 09:26:17PM -1 points [-]

You mean, you believe the anthropic principle is justified only if you assume that most people exist in simulations?