{"id":915,"date":"2004-07-22T11:03:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T19:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/07\/22\/simulation-argument\/"},"modified":"2004-07-22T11:03:04","modified_gmt":"2004-07-22T19:03:04","slug":"simulation-argument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/07\/22\/simulation-argument","title":{"rendered":"Simulation Argument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you have seen this before, but Hec\u00adtor just for\u00adward\u00aded me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/\">Are You Liv\u00ading In A Com\u00adput\u00ader Sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion?<\/a> is a site that argues that at least one of the fol\u00adlow\u00ading is true:<\/p>\n<p>(1) The chances that a species at our cur\u00adrent lev\u00adel of devel\u00adop\u00adment can avoid going extinct before becom\u00ading tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly mature is neg\u00adli\u00adgi\u00adbly small<\/p>\n<p>(2) Almost no tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly mature civil\u00adi\u00adsa\u00adtions are inter\u00adest\u00aded in run\u00adning com\u00adput\u00ader sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions of minds like ours<\/p>\n<p>(3) You are almost cer\u00adtain\u00adly an artif\u00adi\u00adcal enti\u00adty in a com\u00adput\u00ader sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion.<\/p>\n<p>The author leaves off option 4 (or rather, dis\u00admiss\u00ades it in his set\u00adup).<\/p>\n<p>(4) It is not pos\u00adsi\u00adble to run a com\u00adput\u00ader sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion of a mind like ours.<\/p>\n<p>Any\u00adway, it struck me as a Chris\u00adt\u00adian that my response is that num\u00adbers 1 and 2 (and pos\u00adsi\u00adbly num\u00adber 4) are true. The world will end via divine inter\u00adven\u00adtion before our civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion is capa\u00adble of such a feat (and once in heav\u00aden we will pre\u00adsum\u00adably have no inter\u00adest in run\u00adning such sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions even if they prove tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly fea\u00adsi\u00adble).<\/p>\n<p>Fun\u00adny how Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty affects your repons\u00ades to everything\u2013even bizarre aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic papers.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you have seen this before, but Hec\u00adtor just for\u00adward\u00aded me a link to Are You Liv\u00ading In A Com\u00adput\u00ader Sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion? is a site that argues that at least one of the fol\u00adlow\u00ading is true: (1) The chances that a species at our cur\u00adrent lev\u00adel of devel\u00adop\u00adment can avoid going extinct before becom\u00ading tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/07\/22\/simulation-argument\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cSim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion Argu\u00adment\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-answers-to-honest-questions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-eL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}