{"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 Hector just forwarded me a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/\">Are You Living In A Computer Simulation?<\/a> is a site that argues that at least one of the following is&nbsp;true:<\/p>\n<p>(1) The chances that a species at our current level of development can avoid going extinct before becoming technologically mature is negligibly small<\/p>\n<p>(2) Almost no technologically mature civilisations are interested in running computer simulations of minds like&nbsp;ours<\/p>\n<p>(3) You are almost certainly an artifical entity in a computer simulation.<\/p>\n<p>The author leaves off option 4 (or rather, dismisses it in his&nbsp;setup).<\/p>\n<p>(4) It is not possible to run a computer simulation of a mind like&nbsp;ours.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it struck me as a Christian that my response is that numbers 1 and 2 (and possibly number 4) are true. The world will end via divine intervention before our civilization is capable of such a feat (and once in heaven we will presumably have no interest in running such simulations even if they prove technologically feasible).<\/p>\n<p>Funny how Christianity affects your reponses to everything\u2013even bizarre academic papers.&nbsp;\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you have seen this before, but Hector just forwarded me a link to Are You Living In A Computer Simulation? is a site that argues that at least one of the following is&nbsp;true: (1) The chances that a species at our current level of development can avoid going extinct before becoming technologically mature \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/07\/22\/simulation-argument\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cSimulation Argument\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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}