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#355 – David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Limits of the Aesthetics

The sewer reality would be just short of the ability to create a truly sentient, conscious experience in a computer. The premise of the entire argument is that ancestor simulations are possible. If you count up how many realities there should be probabilistically, if this is true, then you're most likely to find yourself in the sewer because there's just far more of them than there are of any of the higher levels.

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