Re: Bostrom & Hanson in Article

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 22:19:49 MDT

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    On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, I wrote:

    > The only problem with this perspective is that Robin's ideas perhaps
    > predate Nick's simulation argument. [ Robin's article was published in
    > V. 7 of JET (Sep 2001), while Nick's argument appeared only in 2002/2003
    > to the best of my knowledge. ] ... [snip]

    I have been informed by someone closer to the discussion that Robin's
    paper may have been stimulated by an early version of Nick's paper,
    so in fact the Silber perspective/comments may indeed be accurate
    and my comments are negated by the tortuous path of publication timings.

    Robert



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