From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 11:07:52 MDT
"Dan Fabulich" <dfabulich@warpmail.net>
>Bostrom is simply arguing that "at least one of the following
> propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct
> before reaching a posthuman stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is
> extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their
> evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly
> living in a computer simulation.
I don't think it's totally unreasonable to think (2) may be true. Posthumans
would certainly be intelligent enough to know that their simulations have
the potential to feel as deeply as they do and I hope are compassionate
enough not to put their mind children in such agony.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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