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<blockquote data-quote="quad" data-source="post: 16641004" data-attributes="member: 17952"><p>To amuse ourselves.</p><p></p><p>In 2003, philosopher <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom" target="_blank">Nick Bostrom</a> proposed a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma" target="_blank">trilemma</a> that he called "the simulation argument". Despite the name, Bostrom's "simulation argument" does not directly argue that humans live in a simulation; instead, Bostrom's trilemma argues that one of three unlikely-seeming propositions is almost certainly true:</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">"The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage (that is, one capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations) is very close to zero", or</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">"The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history, or variations thereof, is very close to zero", or</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">"The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one."</li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="quad, post: 16641004, member: 17952"] To amuse ourselves. In 2003, philosopher [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom']Nick Bostrom[/URL] proposed a [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilemma']trilemma[/URL] that he called "the simulation argument". Despite the name, Bostrom's "simulation argument" does not directly argue that humans live in a simulation; instead, Bostrom's trilemma argues that one of three unlikely-seeming propositions is almost certainly true: [LIST=1] [*]"The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage (that is, one capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations) is very close to zero", or [*]"The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running simulations of their evolutionary history, or variations thereof, is very close to zero", or [*]"The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one." [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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