homunq comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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Comment author: homunq 14 October 2010 02:09:03AM 13 points [-]

The most advanced computer that it is possible to build with the matter and energy budget of Earth, would not be capable of simulating a billion humans and their environment, such that they would be unable to distinguish their life from reality (20%). It would not be capable of adding any significant measure to their experience, given MWI.(80%, which is obscenely high for an assertion of impossibility about which we have only speculation). Any superintelligent AIs which the future holds will spend a small fraction of their cycles on non-heuristic (self-conscious) simulation of intelligent life.(Almost meaningless without a lot of defining the measure, but ignoring that, I'll go with 60%)

NOT FOR SCORING: I have similarly weakly-skeptical views about cryonics, the imminence and speed of development/self-development of AI, how much longer Moore's law will continue, and other topics in the vaguely "singularitarian" cluster. Most of these views are probably not as out of the LW mainstream as it would appear, so I doubt I'd get more than a dozen or so karma out of any of them.

I also think that there are people cheating here, getting loads of karma for saying plausibly silly things on purpose. I didn't use this as my contrarian belief, because I suspect most LWers would agree that there are at least some cheaters among the top comments here.

Comment author: MattMahoney 26 April 2011 04:01:43PM 2 points [-]

I disagree because a simulation could program you to believe the world was real and believe it was more complex than it actually was. Upvoted for under confidence.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 16 October 2010 03:42:49PM 0 points [-]

Do you mean unable with any scientific instrumentation that they could build, unable with careful attention, or unlikely to casually?

Are you only interested in branches from 'this' world in terms of measure rather than this class of simulation?

What's your take on Moore's Law in detail