What Are Ancestor Simulations... And Are We Living In One
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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Are We in a Simulation of the 20th Century?
We all play that whatif game occasionally. And i daresay we do what if forur own life more often than day dreaming fancy in fictional life. It would seem then, to say that our odds have been in some sort of simulation, even if it is as a voluntary client who paid not to remember were in their own simulation for a while was actually very high. Some folks say ancestral simulations probably just would not get done, not because we couldn't or wouldn't, but because the civilizations able to do so would not. Maybe because such civilizations always have a machine rebellion. Or unlike in the matrix that machinists smart enough to know that humans do not make good power production
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