Re: Simulations in the Infinite Universe (was Spacetime/Inflation/Civilizations)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 06:39:00 MST

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    Lee Corbin wrote:
    >
    > Of course we are. And of course we're not. One is in
    > all the places one can be in. One's duplicates are one's
    > selves, and if I try to pin it down by asking, "Well,
    > which one is *this* one?", then I get the ambiguous
    > pointer problem.
    >
    > But more run time is needed for everyone, and it makes
    > sense to ask (as you really are) "What fraction of me
    > is being simulated?" Hmm. From your analysis, it looks
    > like quite a lot (provided, as I say, there really is
    > motivation to engage in such emulating/simulating).

    Careful! You're on the verge of discovering the unified theory that
    explains the Lambertian fiasco at the end of _Permutation City_ and the
    Zone Barriers in _A Fire Upon the Deep_. 

    -- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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