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Re:You Only Live Twice by byrneseyeview on Friday December 12, 2008 @11:44PM (#396486)
Why not assume that in the future they'll harness the universe's full computational capabilities and emulate every single being that has ever lived?

Because if you assume it will happen, you have to assume that the mostly likely explanation for your existence is that it did happen.

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Re:You Only Live Twice by yters on Saturday December 13, 2008 @09:27AM (#396706)
That's a bad reason to assume the opposite. If Eliezer's assumptions are valid, then the scenario I outline is just as valid. You can't have one without the other.
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