= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
tailcalled comments on Simulations Map: what is the most probable type of the simulation in which we live? - Less Wrong
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (46)
If we are in a simulation, why isn’t the simulation more streamlined? I have a couple of examples for that:
It seems that our simulation hosts would need to have access to vast or unlimited resources. (In that case it would be interesting to consider whether life is sustainable in a world with unlimited resources at all. Perhaps scarcity is somehow required for ethical behavior to develop; malice would perhaps spread too easily.)
I’m a big fan of these infographics by the way.
It could be that the 'external' world is completely different and way, way bigger than our world. Their world might be to our world what our world is to a simple game of life simulation.
If the hypothetical external world in question diverges from our own world by a lot then the ancestor simulation argument loses all force.
Of course, but OTOH, we have simulated a lot of tiny, strange universes, so it's not completely implausible.