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DaFranker comments on If we live in a simulation, what does that imply? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DaFranker 26 October 2012 07:59:55PM 0 points [-]

If the stack never bottoms out, I would expect by Occam's that we would eventually find some evidence that we are not the top, and that there is probably no top, ever.

This would, as far as I can tell, imply various uncomfortable things, and would require getting over the deep-seated objections some people have against any conception of the universe that contains the concept "infinity" anywhere in it.