Re: effing the ineffable

From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2001 - 08:18:03 MDT


On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

> Brian Atkins wrote:
> >
> > You might want to ask Nick Bostrom about that... he seems to find
> > evidence supporting the life-in-sim conclusion. If you found out you
> > were living in a sim, would that bother you?
>
> I think Nick Bostrom sees arguments supporting a stronger Bayesian prior
> probability that we are living in a simulation. Nobody's found any actual
> flaws in the Matrix yet.

Is this the same style of Bayesian reasoning, that argues we're about to
go extinct?

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