You can't assume that the universe simulating ours is anything like ours. Space, time, and matter might be abstract concepts that only exist in our simulation. In fact it can't be like ours because in any universe that has finite computing power (like ours), a simulation must have less power.
This is not the only problem with Bostrom's ancestor simulation argument. He assigns a high probability to being in a simulation by counting agents, but probability only has a meaning in the case of a large number of independent trials measured by a single observer. I don't believe that anyone knows how to test even the one universe we can observe. On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 6:26 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually the future AIs *will* want to run simulations to see how we got > here (which path/ what was on Earth 100,000,000 years ago ?) and to bring > back people, just they won't be able to run huge simulations. Unless, they > sim only around Earth, in that way maybe the light etc that would > hit/bounce off Earth would not have enough time to reach us in the years of > evolution we are concerned about. Like why simulate/consider stuff > lightyears away if it never interacted in with us? Bingo. > *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T956b74065f76478b-M7492344cf34b2358d22829e2> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T956b74065f76478b-M5b3009371987a842372a3991 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
