Viliam comments on Open Thread, Aug. 15. - Aug 21. 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Viliam 17 August 2016 07:38:10AM 2 points [-]

On the other hand, the more "actions that would get the simulation terminated" we do and survive them, the higher the chance that we are actually not living in a simulation.

Comment author: turchin 17 August 2016 10:29:04AM 2 points [-]

Unfortunately anthropic bias prevents us from meaningful probability calculations in this case.