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