[extropy-chat] The world as a Sim ? Irrelevant

[aperick at centurytel.net]

Eliezer S. Yudkowsky writes:

> This world could easily be a computer simulation, but if so
> it is a simulation of a  world without ESP.

then Brett proceeds to climb all over him.

When I read Eliezer's post, and the above sentence, never did I get the
impression that he was truly considering -- with any favor whatever -- the
sim view. I got the impression that he was making the point that the sim
view - though highly unlikely in the extreme - had more of a chance of being
correct than anything like ESP.

Perhaps in such a place as this, one's finger belongs on the trigger guard,
not the trigger.

Or, am I ignorant of previous posts by Eliezer which, having chaffed poor
Brett in the past, render Brett understandable sensitive to the touch?