Questions tagged [simulation]
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What's the motivation for organisms to reproduce (in a natural-selection simulation)?
I'm currently working on a neuro-evolution genetic algorithm where I create small organisms with simple neural networks which can move around a 2d space with randomly distributed food. I spawn a bunch of those organisms with a random initialized…
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Must the simulation argument assume there are other human-civilizations in our universe?
The simulation argument by Nick Bostrom seems to take for granted that there are (or will be) many other human-level civilizations in our universe.
For example the first of the three options in the conclusion is “The fraction of human-level…
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What is a functional relationship?
By a "functional relationship" I mean "the way" a part of a system interacts with the rest of the system. In a certain sense it "doesn't matter" how the part of the system is specifically formed; the part could be changed, and provided the rest of…
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What can we conclude from the simulation argument if our descendants will almost certainly run ancestor-simulations?
The very end of Nick Bostrom’s Simulation argument says:
“Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation”
I’m trying to work out what happens to this statement if actually our…
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How to distinguish the species of „real“ persons from the species of simulated persons?
Today I learned from an academic talk given by Prof. Gilles Brassard (Montreal): In the context of artificial intelligence one discusses not only civilizations (level 1) which are simulated by civilizations of real persons (level 0), but also…
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Why does Nick Bostrom's simulation argument use "close to zero" rather than just "zero"?
Edited to make the question clearer
Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Argument can effectively be reduced to just two options:
Either (1) close to zero civilisations reach a post-human stage and run many ancestor simulations or (2) We are almost certainly…
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