Archive for the ‘simulation’ Category
1988 — Karl Sims — Particle Dreams
April 2, 2007
"…at least one of the following propositions is …
March 4, 2007“…at least one of the following propositions is true:
(1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage;
(2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof);
(3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.”
The Simulation Argument
Nick Bostrom
Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University
