ArisKatsaris comments on If we live in a simulation, what does that imply? - Less Wrong Discussion
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The simulation argument makes many assumptions, like: "a non-simulated person and a simulated person have the same chance of subjective experienced existence" and also "we can actually count number of simulations meaningfully".
Which is really really problematic -- for example what's the difference between a single simulation double-checking every computation vs two simulations of the same thing? What's the difference between a simulation running on circuitry of 2nm width, vs two simulations running on circuitry of 1nm width each?
We don't really have a clue about how to count and compare probabilities of existence.