Tom_McCabe2 comments on Not for the Sake of Happiness (Alone) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tom_McCabe2 23 November 2007 06:41:02AM 1 point [-]

""Simulation" is a silly term. Whatever is, is real."

This is true, but "simulation" is still a useful word; it's used to refer to a subset of reality which attempts to resemble the whole thing (or a subset of it), but is not causally closed. "Reality", as we use the word, refers to the whole big mess which *is* causally closed.