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wedrifid comments on Best shot at immortality? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 22 March 2012 02:32:36PM 0 points [-]

There are heaps of other superintelligences, with high probability all the other ones are in parts of the (broadly used) Universe that are causally inaccessible

Hm, this might be a difference of perspective; I'm not very confident in the simulation argument as it's usually put forth. (I tried to explain some of my reasons elsewhere in this thread.)

Is there a typo in there? The simulation argument doesn't seem to fit.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 22 March 2012 02:34:07PM 0 points [-]

Oh, I was assuming... never mind, it's probably not worth untangling.