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Jayson_Virissimo comments on Falsification - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 13 March 2012 06:01:47AM 0 points [-]

I interpreted his friend's claim that "we are in the matrix" to mean, merely, that we are in a simulation. I did not interpret it to mean that we are in a simulation, our actual bodies are being used as batteries, small human communities live underground outside of the simulation and battle robots, etc... The latter strikes me as somewhat non-charitable.

Comment author: shokwave 13 March 2012 02:23:20PM -1 points [-]

Well if I broaden it to "in a simulation" I don't think there is a response. The friend is underconfident in saying 50%.