255. David Chalmers — Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Copernican Principle - Where Is Everyone?
We're likely in the middle of the bell curve of civilizations that develop out of long evolutionary and cultural process. So somebody should have been half of em would have been ahead of us. But i think your bostrum says, maybe we've got to decrease the probability that these other simulated civilizations will exist. That's a pessimistic way of looking at anby paradox ot simulation argument, right? It's a little bit like that argument. Ell, but what if we're first? You know, we couldn't somy nofers,. Yes, is we could just be super lucky and be the ones that are first. Either way requires us to be very, be very lucky.
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