Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
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Abstract
I argue that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to become extinct before reaching a 'posthuman' stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of its evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we shall one day become posthumans who run ancestor‐simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. I discuss some consequences of this result.
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| Authors | Nick Bostrom |
| Journal | The Philosophical Quarterly |
| Year | 2003 |
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10.1111/1467-9213.00309
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