The Simulation Argument: Why the Probability that You Are Living in a Matrix is Quite High
by
Nick Bostrom, Professor, Oxford University, Faculty of Philosophy
...there is a significant probability that you are living in computer simulation. I mean this literally: if the simulation hypothesis is true, you exist in a virtual reality simulated in a computer built by some advanced civilisation. Your brain, too, is merely a part of that simulation. ...
we should accept as true at least one of the following three propositions:
(1) The chances that a species at our current level of development can avoid going extinct before becoming technologically mature is negligibly small
(2) Almost no technologically mature civilisations are interested in running computer simulations of minds like ours
(3) You are almost certainly in a simulation.
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Possibility (1) is relatively straightforward. For example, maybe there is some highly dangerous technology that every sufficiently advanced civilization develops, and which then destroys them. Let us hope that this is not the case.
Possibility (2) requires that there is a strong convergence among all sufficiently advanced civilisations: almost none of them is interested in running computer simulations of minds like ours, and almost none of them contains any relatively wealthy individuals who are interested in doing that and are free to act on their desires. One can imagine various reasons that may lead some civilisations to forgo running simulations, but for (2) to obtain, virtually all civilisations would have to do that. If this were true, it would constitute an interesting constraint on the future evolution of advanced intelligent life.
The third possibility is the philosophically most intriguing. If (3) is correct, you are almost certainly now living in computer simulation that was created by some advanced civilisation.
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http://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix.html
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Every highly advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magik.
It's been said that the Archons (Gnostics)/Mind Parasites(Colin Wilson)/Flyers, voladores (Carlos Castaneda) have always been interfaced to the cutting edge of human technology.
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but there was tyhis thread on the other board and I just wanted to know if it's still running
Elementary students suspended after pretending pencils were guns
RE: Archon Interface on the 8th Level/DeepWeb
