The argument focuses on ancestor simulations. This would be detailed simulations of people with the kind of experiences that their historical forbears had. If almost all people with our experiences assimulated, we should think we are probably one of the rare non simulated ones. The third alternative is that we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. And then that shows that it's not the case that all three of them are false.

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