![]() we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof). ![]() the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage.Bostrom then concludes that at least one of the following propositions must be true: However, because there are many more simulated minds, one have strong reasons to believe he is probably been simulated. Hence, since simulated and non-simulated minds are subjectively indistinguishable, one doesn’t have any a priori reasons to think he is one or another. For instance, if they run 1000 complete simulations of our civilization, then there would be 1000 many more simulated minds then non-simulated ones. Therefore, there would be many more simulated minds than non-simulated. ![]() If posthuman civilizations have enough computing power to run hugely many ancestor‐simulations using a tiny fraction of their resources, it’s reasonable to assume they would certainly run many of such simulations. In this paper Bostrom constructs, in much more detail, the line of reasoning below. The concept was popularized in 2003 by Nick Bostrom's paper "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?" 1. The Simulation argument is an argument for the simulation hypothesis, which states we are living in a simulation.
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