(December 7, 2014 at 10:17 am)Heywood Wrote:Quote:A future society will very likely have the technological ability and the motivation to create large numbers of completely realistic historical simulations and be able to overcome any ethical and legal obstacles to doing so. It is thus highly probable that we are a form of artificial intelligence inhabiting one of these simulations. To avoid stacking (i.e. simulations within simulations), the termination of these simulations is likely to be the point in history when the technology to create them first became widely available, (estimated to be 2050). Long range planning beyond this date would therefore be futile.
Historical Simulations - Motivational, Ethical and Legal Issues, Journal of Futures Studies, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 23-42, August 2006
Perhaps lawyers aren't the very best place to get information about physics or future technology.
What you have there is thought speculation about the legal implications of using computer simulations for medical testing working on the assumption that such simulations might be possible by 2050. Jenkins relies on futurologists for that prediction.
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