Mouthwash

Well, I don't want to go through all of that just to find where it talks about my specific objections... but let me ask, how many people here believe this?

What evidence is there for us being in a simulation? I've never heard of humans wanting to "simulate" history. Civilization doesn't play even remotely like a simulator and never claimed to be. The information equivalent to an entire world would have to be converted into data storage for such a project and what possible motive could there be for that? I'll follow Occam's Razor on this one- the more assumptions you make, the more likely you are to be wrong unless you have some sort of evidence.

Yeah, I knew I couldn't have been the only one to have thought of this.

Here's an interesting problem: why do we live in this era? Imagine the people that lived before we migrated out of Africa; when the human population was less than 10,000. What were the odds of being one of those people? At least less than winning the lottery. So we can conclude that the likelihood of existing in a specific era is proportional to the amount of consciousness in existence during that time period.

This presents a major problem for a technological singularity as the odds of living before the singularity turned all matter in the universe into consciousness are virtually nil. So there will be no singularity, and it's almost frightening to imagine what we can conclude from this for our future.

Here's an interesting problem: why do we live in this era? Imagine the people that lived before we migrated out of Africa; when the human population was less than 10,000. What were the odds of being one of those people? At least less than winning the lottery, obviously. So we can conclude that the likelihood of living in a specific time period is proportional to the amou