Re: The Simulation Argument

2001-12-09 Thread Nick Bostrom
Hal wrote: > > >I wonder if you consider the possibility that there is no matter of fact > > >as to whether we are living in a simulation? Suppose that we live in real > > >life, and also get simulated one or more times, then our consciousness > > >cannot be localized to any specific instantiati

Re: Variations in measure

2001-12-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
Russel wrote: > Saibal Mitra wrote: > > > > > > Hal wrote: > > > > > > > One of the concepts we have explored is that all universes and hence > > > all minds exist, but that some observer-moments have greater "measure" > > > than others. This may help to explain why we observe the kind of univer

Re: Variations in measure

2001-12-09 Thread Russell Standish
Saibal Mitra wrote: > > > Hal wrote: > > > > One of the concepts we have explored is that all universes and hence > > all minds exist, but that some observer-moments have greater "measure" > > than others. This may help to explain why we observe the kind of universe > > that we do, because we

Re: The Simulation Argument

2001-12-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
Nick Bostrom wrote: ``Saibal wrote: A proper calculation using Bayes' theorem is missing in the article. The conclusion is false. E.g. let's assume that (2) and (3) are false. So, we know with almost 100% certainty that we are not living in a simulation, and we know with almost 100% certainty

Re: Variations in measure

2001-12-09 Thread Saibal Mitra
Hal wrote: > One of the concepts we have explored is that all universes and hence > all minds exist, but that some observer-moments have greater "measure" > than others. This may help to explain why we observe the kind of universe > that we do, because we must be observer-moments that have rel