You know there's this interesting argument by your colleague at Oxford Nick bostrom. [do] you know nick he's in the philosophy department?
[go] on yes, yeah, and
You know I wrote a little bit about this
So I got some feedback from people which was a little bit surprising and he argues that
the notion of a simulated universe
That you know the matrix if you will imagine one day, we have these powerful supercomputers
And we really with fantastic fidelity can create a universe in
Silico if you will which has sentient beings within it that don't know that they are in a simulation and
He goes through an interesting argument with just for brevity [of] time let me just simplify it
[he] may be a little irritated with the simplification, but it gets to the main point
Which is it's so imprint is E1 [Cyou]. Have that technology to create a simulated universe
That there'd be many more simulated universes than real universe real universes are hard to create. Maybe there's one
maybe there's a few but it's hard to imagine that you could create them in as great abundance as you could create universes in a
Computer you come home at night. You flick it on you create a university sort of kick back, and you watch what happens, so
he argues that it's therefore much more likely just based on the statistics that we are in a
simulated universe
Then that were not in a simulated universe
So I wrote about this in a book that spoke about various ways in which you [can] [imagine] other universes the surprise for me was
people came back and said [to] me and then nick I read later people said to him to
This for them was the most convincing argument for a creator
Because now the creator was not some mysterious
Being it was some futuristic teenage kid with pimples in his garage. You just created the universe
So my question to you, what do you think about that?
I
Can't see how you could refuse it. I mean, I can't see how you would actually be sure that we're not
A
If the if a religion were to rise up where people were honoring the teenage kid
Would you [go] around and say I get it you can't refute it, and I'm kind of okay with it
I wouldn't worship it no. No I agree with that
That that I could have could have guessed from the outset, but in that situation where it's less like fairies
It's less like you know ghosts. It's less of [this] crazy idea. [yes]
There's actually a logical sequence of words that can be given. Yes meaning where there is a creator to this world
What do you say then yeah, I agree. I'm I'm intrigued by
the thought that
When you make a simulated world yeah, and they're I mean, they're accrued ones like second life yeah
there has to be a
Physics built into it yeah um and and when you drop things they fall and when you throw them up and catch them it works
But you can violate that physics. I mean to simulate the pimply youth doing the simulation can some somehow just it
Will change the physics and you could suddenly fly as you indeed you can in in [second] [life]?
it's got to be a pretty [discipline] pimply youth disease to it as a
Creator of this [world] should be yeah, I would say yes, but that we don't we don't see that
But I suppose we don't I mean make me a maybe well
Maybe he wipes our memory clean after playing around with us right all these things are possible
