X-Message-Number: 17424 Subject: Re: Some situations aren't worth planning for (was ... Simulations) References: <> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:38:36 -0700 (PDT) From: (Peter C. McCluskey) (Tim Freeman) writes: >If I'm living in a simulated universe, and the entities running the >simulation have chosen to give me no clues about what's going on in >the real universe, then there's no way for me to get any traction on >the problem of making a difference in the real universe. Thus nothing >I do makes any difference, so I don't have to consider this >possibility when I'm making my plans. But we can make some slightly better than random guesses about what a creator of a simulation would do, based on what we observe about simulations that are created with our universe. See: http://hanson.gmu.edu/lifeinsim.html for an analysis of how that ought to affect our behavior. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter McCluskey | Free Dmitry Sklyarov! http://www.freesklyarov.org/ http://www.rahul.net/pcm | Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17424