Lion comments on 2013 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

78 Post author: Yvain 22 November 2013 09:26AM

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Comment author: Kurros 26 November 2013 12:40:29AM 3 points [-]

To me, the simulation hypothesis definitely does not imply a supernatural creator. 'Supernatural' implies 'unconstrained by natural laws', at least to me, and I see no reason to expect that the simulation creators are free from such constraints. Sure, it means that supernatural-seeming events can in principle occur inside the simulation, and the creators need not be constrained by the laws of the simulation since they are outside of it, but I fully expect that some laws or other would govern their behaviour.

Comment author: Lion 26 November 2013 12:59:29AM *  3 points [-]

A bold, but reasonable expectation that I agree with. There MUST be SOME laws, even if we don't know what they are.