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Godlike Aliens

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Problems With Godlike Aliens

We ask if we might be living in a simulation. We see something like this with the superhuman members of the second foundation in isaac asma's classic foundation trilogy. Even if they are acting like selfish morons, you do not know that you aren't responding to them exactly as they intended. It does not matter how many people you've heard about having awfur lives or experiences far away. You don't know they are real. Indeed, even those people of your personal acquaintance might be fake. However, even your own personal experience is not enough to rule out such simulation. Especially given the entire idea, the simulation is running out a computer relies on the notion that the lower simul

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