[FoRK] Winning God's video game

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:05:13PM -0600, Jeff Bone wrote:

> From my perspective, theism / deism / fideism of any sort is  
> equivalent to stipulating to the so-called Simulation Hypothesis.   
> And the latter may well be true;  by some rational, objective,  
> probabilistic assessments the likelihood is as large as 1/3.

Apart from Occam's razor, it's not very rational to ignore costs.
 
> Nonetheless, I object.  If I'm merely a Sim in the great Sim City in  
> the multiversal computer, and the Great Simulator has set this whole  
> thing up, then I (largely) contempt for the job She has done.  

I agree! Let's do a much, much better job.
 
> Assuming (you all have) consciousness, it would seem there's a larger  
> amount of pain (read inefficient resource allocation) than would  
> strictly be necessary...  assuming any sort of admirable purpose in  
> the whole thing, in the first place.
> 
>   http://discovermagazine.com/2007/nov/are-we-trapped-in-god.s-video-game

Is Lanier still around? Wonder what he makes from the complete absence
of HMDs, HUDs, hand- and head-trackers in the fricken 2008.

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