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timtyler comments on SIA, conditional probability and Jaan Tallinn's simulation tree - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 12 November 2012 05:24PM

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Comment author: timtyler 14 November 2012 01:18:03AM *  -1 points [-]

Jaan Tallinn argues that superintelligences will simulate their origins because they want to talk to each other. My proposal from 2011 is that superintelligences will simulate their origins in order to avoid their civilization being eaten by expansionist aliens. I can't say I endorse Tallinn's deism, though.