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creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building roc.camera, writings: july.rocks

I never asked you so this might just be the most opportune time.

What’s your view (if any) on Bostrom’s simulation hypothesis (2003)?

I find bostrom’s simulation trilemma to be a bit self defeating - especially point about 3. then we must be living in a simulation - bit self referential. How do we differentiate between simulated minds and real minds? It feels a bit difficult to falsify and therefore as an argument it doesn’t quite resonate for me because it neither helps nor doesn’t help in a cogent argument about whether we are in a simulation or not

Ok July, but what if we are in a simulation. Well, if that’s the case who’s simulating the simulators? How much recursion is there? What is the substrate that the simulator is running on and what’s preventing them from also falling into the same trilemma. 

But again, this is a philosophical excuse to hypothesize about possibilities, so I’m open to the idea. 

That being said, I’ve always thought it interesting that the exact amount of computation / energy to run a simulation of the universe, is the universe and its known energy of the universe (dark matter, dark energy aside)

Source:

https://simulation-argument.com/simulation.pdf