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The key point is most minds. The argument is that as a conscious being, your prior expectation of "where you are" should be a uniform distribution over all con
by inimino 10y ago
The key point is most minds.
The argument is that as a conscious being, your prior expectation of "where you are" should be a uniform distribution over all conscious beings. So the idea that you are "probably" in a simulation relies on the assumption that there will be more conscious beings inside simulations than in the top-level "real" universe.
- lomnakkus 10y ago> So the idea that you are "probably" in a simulation relies on the assumption that there will be more conscious beings inside simulations than in the top-level "real" universe. I mean I can sort-of-see-it if this is the assumption, but the assumption itself seems quite circular to me. EDIT: I also don't understand how this is connected to my point about speed-of-simulation, but...