You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

James_Miller comments on The substrate - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: NancyLebovitz 30 November 2012 05:38AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (11)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: James_Miller 30 November 2012 04:47:58PM 6 points [-]

Is there any conceivable way of telling whether we're in a simulation

Yes, with high probability at least. We create lots of simulations of observers who have the same subjective beliefs as we do. Not that I'm in favor of this, but you did use the word conceivable.