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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 origina
by 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 agoWell, 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 agoHonestly, we hacked most of it together with perl. https://www.xkcd.com/224/ https://www.xkcd.com/224/
- bryanrasmussen 10y agoWell 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.