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  • Bostrom’s theory relies on life being real too. If I could rephrase it, his theory is:

    1 if humans can simulate a human mind in the future, they will 2 they will probably simulate their ancestors (us) 3 they will probably do it trillions and trillions of times 4 this means that out of trillions of consciousnesses, some are real humans and some are simulations 5 we are either one of the few billion actual living minds or one of the trillions of simulated minds and math says it’s the latter because trillions is more. (He never says trillions, just unspecific words like “countless”)

    I think Bostrom is genius but I’ve never found this argument very interesting.








    1. I liked fooling with computers and installed it just to see what it was. I went through several distros over the next few years, Mandrake, Suse, Red Hat, compiled Gentoo from scratch, and finally settled on Slackware. It was my only OS for 14-15 years until I started a business in 2016 and needed software that’s only available in Windows. I only use Windows on my PC now because my computer does weird boot stuff that screws up dual boots and I don’t really use the PC that much anyway. I still use Linux on small servers for media and home automation


  • I used to work with a guy who said “damn” every few words like: “I went to the damn store last night to get some damn milk and damn, milk is like four damn dollars now. I thought damn, the kids are going to have to start drinking damn water.”

    Anyway, after every boring damn story i would just shake my head and say “damn”