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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity

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The Demand for Simulation Versus Other Things

The key issue is the fraction of creatures in the universe that are really experiencing what you appear to be really experiencing relative to the fraction that are experiencing it in a simulation way, i.e. simulated. To figure out this ratio, what we need to think about is basically two functions. One is how fast in time does the number of creatures grow? And then how fast inTime does the interest in the past decline?

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