simulation hypothesis
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 7, 2024 by Nick Bostrom · across every show →
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Aug 7, 2024 neutral
Bostrom: Simulation Hypothesis Expands the Space of Realistic Future Possibilities
“The simulation hypothesis expands the space of sort of realistic possibilities and the realist, like the space of realistic futures. You might think if you're living just in a simple materialistic universe, you die. That's the end. Your brain rots. There is no…”
May 21, 2025 neutral
Brin: Humans Lack Capacity to Reason About Higher-Level Simulations
“I think that we're taking a very anthropocentric view, like when we say simulation in the sense that some kind of conscious being is running a simulation that we are then in, and that, that they have some kind of semblance of desire and consciousness that's si…”