billswift comments on Falsification - Less Wrong

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Comment author: billswift 12 March 2012 04:43:07PM 1 point [-]

P(our universe is a simulation within a "top level" universe) < P(ours is the "top level" universe), given no further evidence of simulation.

I thought the argument was that since there will almost certainly be more simulated universes than the one real one, we are more likely to be in a simulation? Note that I don't have a strong opinion either way, I don't see, despite Robin's essay, that it makes any real difference.

Comment author: occlude 13 March 2012 03:01:14AM 0 points [-]

Robin ultimately calculates that he is probably not a sim in this post. Much like the variables in the Drake equation, Robin's probability estimates are built on a number of unknowns, so we really can't do the calculation. But I have to admit that my own logic failed to take any of these variables into consideration, so please ignore that part of the grandfather.