Between the Bars: Comments on 'Thoughts on A.I. and Douglas Hofstadter'https://betweenthebars.org/posts/commentfeed/65322015-11-14T10:45:02ZComment2015-11-14T10:45:02ZNathaniel Lindell/people/show/540tag:betweenthebars.org,2015-11-14:/posts/6532/thoughts-on-ai-and-douglas-hofstadter/comments
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Comment2015-07-22T23:17:51Zbrownianratchet/people/show/9267tag:betweenthebars.org,2015-07-22:/posts/6532/thoughts-on-ai-and-douglas-hofstadter/comments
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One thing to consider about A.I. is that we may be A.I. ourselves inside a digital computer. There is something called digital physics and also Nick Bostrom's "Simulation Argument" that questions whether or not we are currently living in a simulation right now. This would mean that potentially there could be an afterlife where you could go into another simulation when you are done with this one. As an antitheist or atheist to me it sounds like quackery and crackpot but Nick Bostrom argues that it is more likely that we are in a simulation than a real universe, because more simulations exist than real universes. If you consider for example there are 100 universes or 1000 of them (just as an example only) and in these universes there are hundreds of simulations running, then the math seems to point to the fact that there are more simulations than real universes.. so the likelihood of us being in a real universe are small.<br /><br />However I have some problems with this math because if there are infinite real universes and infinite simulated universes, how can there be more infinity of one, compared to the other? Isn't it like dividing by zero.. when you start to deal with infinity the math becomes a hoax... you can't work with infinity the same way you can't work with division by zero. Other conspiracies may be that zero is actually infinity itself... or that nothing is everything. It is mind boggling philosophical nonsense worth thinking about. The fact however remains that science may be able to answer the question of whether we are in an A.I. simulation right now or not.
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Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post.
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