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What Are Ancestor Simulations... And Are We Living In One

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Simulation

The basic reasoning that folks in sight for giving a probability of our realness or not is to use the principle of indifference. And you presume we can be confident you are too cagto ergo sum, i think, therefore i am. As de cante put it, though the assurtion is not that we are real, merely that you cannot usefully doubt your own existence since some one would have to be doing that doubting.

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