From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 18:30:15 MDT
> Bostrom calls reasoning from the class of all 'intelligent
> entitites' a
> loophole in the DA; it sounds to me like more than that. Either way,
> this argument can be extended to apply to any type of civilization in
> which the resultant total of intelligent entities vastly outnumbers
> those of the Doomsday civs. For one, such an argument might update
> priors about the probability that we live in a simulation.
> The number of
> software entities with human intelligence is limited only by
> processing
> and storage capacity and would surely dwarf anything a Diaspora civ
> could muster. By this line of thought, it is far more likely
> that we are
> living in a simulation than in a Diaspora civ, both of which are far
> more likely than Doomsday.
>
> Keith
I think you'll find Nick Bostrom has something to say on the probability of
living in a sim, along those lines.
http://www.simulation-argument.com/
Emlyn
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