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Everything I'd said there blows out of the water this idea that "simulation thought experiments" can similarly be classed as "fiction" in the usual sense of the
by thenerdfiles 13y ago
Everything I'd said there blows out of the water this idea that "simulation thought experiments" can similarly be classed as "fiction" in the usual sense of the term.
Saying "it's fiction" is only the beginning of the discussion, not the ending of it — namely in that this world only makes sense through the fictional-narrative structure which shapes all discourse from religion to science to programming.
- bermanoid 13y agoYou didn't actually say anything, though. You just spammed a bunch of references and I have no reason to believe that it's worth my time to go through them. You weren't, by chance, a philosophy major, were you? There are few other fields where people work to convince others of so little.
- thenerdfiles 13y agoThe opinion you've expressed is both flattering and unsurprising.