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Old 11-11-2007, 01:12 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Why would they want to?

I'd be interested in viewing my ancestors for about an hour. Then, curiosity sated, I'd wander off. Why would anyone want to run such a simulation?

Not very philosophical, but there you go.
LOL! You obviously won't become part of a posthuman civilization.


Ps. This guy is a department head at Oxford; and an Australian National University, relatively famous, professor of Philosophy gave Bostrom's argument a probability of 20%.

Maybe people should start praying to the technician/s maintaining the Sim.
There is a higher probability that you'll get a result.
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