wedrifid comments on Anthropomorphic AI and Sandboxed Virtual Universes - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: jacob_cannell 03 September 2010 07:02PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 04 September 2010 10:44:55PM 1 point [-]

Again - how do you know you are not in a sim?

You misunderstand me. What I'm confident about is that I'm not in a sim written by agents who are dumber than me.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 September 2010 01:06:20AM 1 point [-]

You misunderstand me. What I'm confident about is that I'm not in a sim written by agents who are dumber than me.

Not even agents with really fast computers?

Comment author: orthonormal 06 September 2010 01:20:56AM 0 points [-]

You're right, of course. I'm not in a sim written by agents dumber than me in a world where computation has noticeable costs (negentropy, etc).