From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 15:37:06 MDT
Harvey wrote:
If people want to
> reduce their position to say that there is a small but unproven
> chance that we might be in a simulation, I would have no objection.
>
### It would be incorrect to say the chance of being in a simulation is
small, unless one knows more about the world than we do. Based on Dan's
excellent exposition, I understand that we engage in building hypotheses,
but because of lack of direct evidence we cannot make informed choices
between them, including making the claim that being in a simulation in
unlikely.
It is much better to say that our likelihood of being in a simulation is
undetermined.
Rafal
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