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Regarding AI and God and religion - here is a blog post that I wrote that suggests that being in a simulation actually increases our chances for a religious aft

Regarding AI and God and religion - here is a blog post that I wrote that suggests that being in a simulation actually increases our chances for a religious afterlife. https://medium.com/@photodiary/implementing-religion-in-ai-life-simulations-45e6e293b8aa#.giqw4s25n https://medium.com/@photodiary/implementing-religion-in-ai-l...

sillysaurus3 10y ago
This runs into the question of whether you're a single person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjfaoe847qQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjfaoe847qQ If you transplant half your brain into another body, and both of you wake up, which one is you? If you start swapping your atoms one by one with someone else, and neither of you die, at what point do you become the other person? Unfortunately questions like that are necessary in order to address the idea of a simulation afterlife. If our bodies are literally who we are, and our bodies disperse, it may not make sense to say that we can still be simulated after our bodies disappear.
jonathanstrange 10y ago
That's a non-sequitur you have there, because you do not even attempt to explain why there should be a case distinction. To be fair, even Nick Bostrom's original simulation argument is also based on several fairly unfounded and not very plausible assumptions (e.g. what extremely advanced societies would do). Much of the debate seems to be based on speculation.
- julianpye 10y ago
  Well, my blog-post is half-serious. The bigger question from it would be why the hell the Universe would be implemented in Java :)
  - evanb 10y ago
    Honestly, we hacked most of it together with perl. https://www.xkcd.com/224/ https://www.xkcd.com/224/
  - bryanrasmussen 10y ago
    Well if you do it in Basic a pony takes 4 million lines.
- naasking 10y ago
  > To be fair, even Nick Bostrom's original simulation argument is also based on several fairly unfounded and not very plausible assumptions (e.g. what extremely advanced societies would do). Bostrom doesn't assume that.

sillysaurus3 10y ago

This runs into the question of whether you're a single person. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjfaoe847qQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjfaoe847qQ If you transplant half your brain into another body, and both of you wake up, which one is you? If you start swapping your atoms one by one with someone else, and neither of you die, at what point do you become the other person? Unfortunately questions like that are necessary in order to address the idea of a simulation afterlife. If our bodies are literally who we are, and our bodies disperse, it may not make sense to say that we can still be simulated after our bodies disappear.

jonathanstrange 10y ago

That's a non-sequitur you have there, because you do not even attempt to explain why there should be a case distinction. To be fair, even Nick Bostrom's original simulation argument is also based on several fairly unfounded and not very plausible assumptions (e.g. what extremely advanced societies would do). Much of the debate seems to be based on speculation.

julianpye 10y ago
Well, my blog-post is half-serious. The bigger question from it would be why the hell the Universe would be implemented in Java :)
- evanb 10y ago
  Honestly, we hacked most of it together with perl. https://www.xkcd.com/224/ https://www.xkcd.com/224/
- bryanrasmussen 10y ago
  Well if you do it in Basic a pony takes 4 million lines.
naasking 10y ago
> To be fair, even Nick Bostrom's original simulation argument is also based on several fairly unfounded and not very plausible assumptions (e.g. what extremely advanced societies would do). Bostrom doesn't assume that.