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Comment author: bogdanb 05 September 2014 11:57:56PM 0 points [-]

I sort of get your point, but I’m curious: can you imagine learning (with thought-experiment certainty) that there is actually no reality at all, in the sense that no matter where you live, it’s simulated by some “parent reality” (which in turn is simulated, etc., ad infinitum)? Would that change your preference?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 06 September 2014 05:56:51AM 0 points [-]

I can imagine many things, including that one, but I am unconcerned with how I might react to them.

How would I explain the event of my left arm being replaced by a blue tentacle? The answer is that I wouldn't. It isn't going to happen.

Eliezer Yudkowsky, "A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation"

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