Are We Living In Nick Bostrom’s Speculation: различия между версиями

This idea was further developed in the works of Robin Hanson and Barry Dainton. In his paper How to Live in a Simulation Hanson gives some recommendations on optimal behaviour for people who believe that they might be living in a simulation. Unfortunately, his ideas are based on the wrong premises (as will be shown in this paper) and his suggestions are far from rational and effective. For example, at one place Hanson speculates that “simulations [might] tend to be ended when enough people in them become confident enough that they live in a simulation” and therefore “you might want to prevent too many others learning that they live in a simulation”. This is nothing more than a random speculation, demonstrating disregard for likelihood, internal consistency and rationality of the hypotheses. It could very well be possible that when enough people realise that they live in a simulation, they will be taken to the real world and simulation will be stopped. Later Hanson suggests that seeking people who might be visitors from the outside and making them interested in you can be beneficial. He completely ignores a just as likely possibility that our world is a GTA[[#ftn3|[3]]]-like game. Such speculations clearly have no use except to satisfy people’s curiosity and entertain them.

# The Deception Objection — simulations should not be created because it involves mass deception.  

# The Self-Interest Consideration — simulations should be prohibited to be sure that you are not in a simulation yourself.