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Thomas comments on Evidence For Simulation - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: TruePath 27 January 2012 11:07PM

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Comment author: Thomas 29 January 2012 09:05:34AM 1 point [-]

Of course. It was Fredkin who suggested we live in a natural simulation, decades ago, The world he called "Other" was of a different physics and we would be in a simulation running in that Other universe.

Highly more likely than that we have some humanoid programmers above. I guess,

Comment author: Cthulhoo 29 January 2012 11:07:41AM 0 points [-]

Thank you for the answer. I often have the impression that in this kind of discussion the Other universe is taken to be very similar to ours for apparently no particularly good reason, and I was wondering if I was missing something.