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TheOtherDave comments on Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation (link) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 21 April 2013 06:52:38AM 2 points [-]

I've never quite understood, in cases like this, how "fully simulate a single human with brain cancer" and "create a single human with brain cancer" are supposed to differ from one another. Because boy do my intuitions about the situation change when I change the verb.