timtyler comments on Anthropomorphic AI and Sandboxed Virtual Universes - Less Wrong
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We run genetic algorithms where we too squish creatures without giving the matter much thought. Perhaps like that - at least in the Optimisationverse scenario.
If my simulations had even the complexity of a bacteria, I'd give it a whole lot more thought.
Doesn't mean these simulators would, but I don't think your logic works.
Generalising from what you would do to what all possible intelligent simulator constructors might do seems as though it would be a rather dubious step. There are plenty of ways they might justify this.
Right. For some reason I thought you were using universal quantification, which of course you aren't. Never mind; the "perhaps" fixes it.