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Nick Bostrom
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Bostrom
Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher at the University of Oxford known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, superintelligence risks, and the reversal test. - Wikipedia
Positions
Question
Are we living in a simulation?
Position
Yes, we are living in a simulation.
Argument
Many prominent physicists and scientific theorists are seriously considering testing for evidence.
“If we are living in a simulation, then the cosmos that we are observing is just a tiny piece of the totality of physical existence.”
Philosopher/Founder of Simulation Theory
27 May 2003
https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
Question
Are we living in a simulation?
Position
No, we are not living in a simulation.
Argument
The number of potential obstacles barring humans in the future from creating such technology are too great.
“Any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history...”
Philosopher/Founder of Simulation Theory
27 May 2003
https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
This page was last edited on Friday, 27 Nov 2020 at 21:15 UTC