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

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Principle of Indifference Is a Solid One

When presented with two or more plausible outcomes, and without any real evidence indicating which is more or less likely, we me they are all about the same. In a moment, i will declare the odds of you living in an ancestral simulation are 33%. And that is going to be based on the principle of indifference. That number is not likely to be the real odds, merely that those are the hypothetical odds given to make this point.

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