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jimrandomh comments on Updating towards the simulation hypothesis because you think about AI - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: SoerenMind 05 March 2016 10:23PM

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Comment author: jimrandomh 05 March 2016 11:23:20PM 1 point [-]

"We live in a simulation" and "we live in not-a-simulation" are not mutually exclusive.

Comment author: turchin 05 March 2016 11:27:46PM *  0 points [-]

because of what?

Something like we don't exist at all, because we are Bolzmann brains?

Comment author: Furcas 06 March 2016 02:21:35AM 1 point [-]

I think Jim means that if minds are patterns, there could be instances of our minds in a simulation (or more!) as well as in the base reality, so that we exist in both (until the simulation diverges from reality, if it ever does).