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25 | David Chalmers on Consciousness, the Hard Problem, and Living in a Simulation

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Ethics of Simulations

I think the ethical questions absolutely get a grip once we start thinking about creating our own simulations. I'm sure any number of people are going to be tempted just once we've got the capacity to start up a copy of sim universe running on our iPhone and see what happens overnight around the entire history of this universe. that way and banks is culture novels I haven't actually I should okay you certainly should because part of itIt's a small part except for one novel where it plays a major role but there's this idea that yeah they do simulations all the time, he says.

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