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

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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Are You an Ancestors Simulation?

This, the 20 fourth century, is probably the last one people will exist in during which the technology on hand does not make faki reality so obviously duable that people don't either worry about it constantly or have to live in denial. In this context, whether i am an uploaded mind 30 years from now, or a human with my brain being re or time scanned and a simulation directly fed back to my nerves, there is a strong implication there that i am functionally immortal. So just imagine what it would be like as these technologies come into real use. It is kind of hard to imagine us as we are now, if we were still that way in a future, able to the sim

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