X-Message-Number: 17424
Subject: Re: Some situations aren't worth planning for (was ... Simulations)
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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.
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