Recent content by Wildhound

To be fair, you assume that the universe the simulation is running in even remotely resembles the simulation itself. If you do a bit more research on simulated reality, one of the ideas that crops up regularly is that there can be no way to determine whether the laws of physics outside the...

Correct, it's nice to see there are some people around here who actually read before a response. ;) The thing is the premises can't really be investigated very thoroughly and as such I don't think the idea of the argument is to prove this philosophy. It's very deliberately worded in a way that...

Since a lot of people in this thread seem to be too lazy to follow a simple link to inform themselves on a topic before discussing it, I'll share the following: You claim the argument has no foundation or basis. However, both can actually be found in logic, reason and probability. It...

This is nothing resembling AI. My understanding is that it's just a number crunching machine that performs many, many repetative experiments with slight variations and comes up with results. It's not actually capable of learning, thinking, or coming up with its own experiments outside of its...

Actually you're not the first person to come up with this notion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_Reality If you look at the arguments for a simulated reality [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_Reality#We_are_living_in_a_simulation] you will see that if you accept the (quite...