Re: Bostrom & Hanson in Article

From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 07:30:32 MDT

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    On 7/10/2003 Robert J. Bradbury 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.

    So there is no doubt, I was stimulated by Nick's paper (and say so in
    the acknowledgments of my paper).

    Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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