Re:The Brain in a Vat Argument
by Nursie on Friday December 13, 2013 @12:59PM
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That's really quite cool. Thanks for that :)
--edit-- My own thoughts were along the lines of - humans decide we're probably in a simulation, and try to figure out how we could attempt communication with the simulators. To do so we decide to build our own simulation, then run it at double speed and watch how they try to communicate with us. Then recurse...
If you ever read a story like that, you'll know someone with the same idea but more motivation than me wrote it :)
--edit-- My own thoughts were along the lines of - humans decide we're probably in a simulation, and try to figure out how we could attempt communication with the simulators. To do so we decide to build our own simulation, then run it at double speed and watch how they try to communicate with us. Then recurse...
If you ever read a story like that, you'll know someone with the same idea but more motivation than me wrote it :)