At some point this “universe simulator” concept is nonsense because if I don’t retain some aspect of my own personality and mental capacity, it’s not me in the

At some point this “universe simulator” concept is nonsense because if I don’t retain some aspect of my own personality and mental capacity, it’s not me in the simulator anymore. For all I know, maybe I’m a sentient mushroom from Alpha Centauri except I’m in a “universe simulator” where I am experiencing the life of a human being here on Earth having arguments on Hacker News. Maybe when I come out of the universe simulator I will have a greater empathy for your species. The hypothetical risk of AI-generated deepfake nudes is, in principle, no different from what you could do with Photoshop even when I was a teenager. It’s easier to send the fake nudes to everybody these days, but I seriously doubt anybody would have been genuinely fooled and it would reflect more on whoever made and disseminated the fakes.