[extropy-chat] Analyzing the simulation argument

[Eliezer Yudkowsky]

Mike Lorrey wrote:
> 
> While I wouldn't say omnipotent (I can think of many ways a sysop could
> have created my simulation but have absolutely no control over the
> weather in my area of the 'verse), I would make a qualified agreement
> to this. The important thing is that the simulation argument is the
> meme virus by which we can infect theists worldwide with transhumanism.

Infect people with a non-personally-believed meme!  What a wonderfully 
euphemistic way of saying, "lie".

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence