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[JuliaL]

The simulation hypothesis isn't totally wacked.

Why the Probability that You Are Living in a Matrix is Quite High

Now we get to the core of the simulation argument. This does not purport to demonstrate that you are in a simulation. Instead, it shows that we should accept as true at least one of the following three propositions:

(1) The chances that a species at our current level of development can avoid going extinct before becoming technologically mature is negligibly small

(2) Almost no technologically mature civilisations are interested in running computer simulations of minds like ours

(3) You are almost certainly in a simulation.

I don't really see the difference between this and the (unsolvable) solipsism arguments. Even if you knew you were a brain in a vat (computer) you wouldn't know if that vat wasn't a simulation running on another computer somewhere. (Why do people only go one level down in these arguments anyway?)

My brain gets stuck a couple of recursions down from there and I give up caring.
But I am still looking for incongruencies just in case my life really is just a good video game and finding that fact out is the victory condition.