From: Nick Bostrom (nick@nickbostrom.com)
Date: Tue Mar 13 2001 - 19:22:44 MST
Mark Walker wrote:
>Indeed,
>if someone were to post the suggestion publicly about the possibility of
>acting differently, given the probability that this is a simulation, this
>might bring about a quick end to the simulation. An end to this simulation
>would be an end to our world. So, the guy that makes that post will be the
>one who is responsible for the end of our world.
Shit! Too bad I read this before sending the url to my paper in the earlier
post ;-)
Ok, so everybody promise not to read the text that is at
http://www.nickbostrom.com/Simulation.doc, ok?
Nick Bostrom
Department of Philosophy
Yale University
Homepage: http://www.nickbostrom.com
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