James_Miller comments on How would you take over Rome? - Less Wrong

25 Post author: Yvain 14 March 2012 04:24PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 16 March 2012 04:57:55PM 1 point [-]

The large number of responses to this post provides a bit of support to the simulation hypothesis.

Comment author: Kevin 18 March 2012 03:35:24AM 1 point [-]

How does this follow?

Comment author: James_Miller 18 March 2012 07:25:43PM 1 point [-]

The simulation hypothesis comes in part from believing that some people in the future will want to run "like life" historical reenactments.

Comment author: LucasSloan 16 March 2012 11:32:38PM 1 point [-]

Maybe, but I don't think that it provides much evidence for us living in a simulation. Our history doesn't include stories of weird messianic figures showing up from nowhere suddenly increasing human knowledge by a lot while simultaneously gathering lots of political power.

Comment author: HonoreDB 17 March 2012 03:13:10PM 8 points [-]

Some of these plans have made me a little suspicious about Rasputin, who showed up out of nowhere with mysterious medical abilities and used them to take over a great empire.