2mo ago

Jim Miller puts the cart FAR before the horse

www.lesswrong.com Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer — LessWrong

Our universe is probably a computer simulation created by a paperclip maximizer to map the spectrum of rival resource‑grabbers it may encounter while…

This is unironically the most interesting accidental showcase of their psyche I've seen 😭 all the comments saying this is a convincing sim argument when half of the points for it are not points

Usually their arguments give me anxiety but this is actually deluded lol

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We’re likelier to be in a simulation run by whoever creates many simulations.
would love to ask these dorks "what is the event space of this probability distribution" and "have you heard of a category error"
- @Seminar2250 @visaVisa dude read like half of an Iain M Banks book and failed to understand any of it
  
  That's basically the Rationalist story tbh. Read banks, it went right over their head, and now they see hostile Minds around every corner.
- The funniest thing was the "reasons that this thesis might not be true" and the reasons were infinitely simpler and arguably stronger than the points for it that bordered on schizophrenic like: "We don't live in a simulation" and "we won't create a paperclip maximizer"

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