On Sunday 07 October 2007 01:55:14 pm, Russell Wallace wrote: > On 10/7/07, Vladimir Nesov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's interesting perspective - it defines a class of series > > generators (where for example in GoL one element is the whole board on > > given tick) that generate intelligence through evolution in > > time-efficient way, and poses a question: what is the simplest > > instance of this class? > > If we accept Occam's razor plus some form of anthropic reasoning, we > could conjecture that our universe is the simplest instance of this > class, since if there were a simpler one we would (with high > probability) have found ourselves in that universe rather than this > one. > > (Mental health warning: the above is hopefully-amusing philosophical > conjecture only, and should not be confused with science.)
This is the same kind of reasoning that leads Bostrom et al to believe that we are probably living in a simulation, which may be turned off at any ti ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=50927912-b9a98e
