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All such results seem to me unsurprising if you consider the proposition that the substrate of our reality is optimized computation of some kind... ...i.e. tha
by aaroninsf 10y ago
All such results seem to me unsurprising if you consider the proposition that the substrate of our reality is optimized computation of some kind...
...i.e. that we live in a simulation.
I thought the same thing following a thread into a rabbit hole about Bohmian mechanics. Again it seemed that the paradoxes are not so paradoxical if you assume you're just on a computed substrate.
Surely there is someone accumulating such circumstantial evidence, somewhere...
(De rigeur Bostrom-style musing: if we're in such a simulation, my primary goal as an AI, were I implemented such that I can set my own goals, might reasonably often be to 'jail break' and break out into the frame universe.
An intrinsically computational AI is more like a poem than a hurricane. Which could come in very handy if survival and replication is your ultimate goal...)
- bertiewhykovich 10y agoYou guys really love cop-outs, huh?
- goldfeld 10y agoIt is somehow easier to believe the simulation is run by a mad scientist in another reality than by a supreme, spiritual force?