[ExI] Fermi question, was is a FTL drive a dream . . .

[Kelly Anderson]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 01:32:29PM -0700, Kelly Anderson wrote:
>> >> being in a simulation, but testing ends the simulation (and the
>> >> universe as we know it) so it might not be something you want to try.
>> >
>> > So the pesky rodents gets terminated when they get too uppity, and
>> > realize they've been living in cage #9?
>> >
>> > Occam sez: I will cut you.
>>
>> Occam actually comes down on the side that we're already in a
>> simulation... if you really think about it hard enough.
>
> You must go deeper ;)

Probably... but if you grant that such a simulation is possible...
then it seems far more likely that we are one of the Gazillion
Trillion simulations that such technology would undoubtedly produce vs
the ONE and ONLY real ancestors that inspired said simulations... Yes,
it is a more complex explanation, thus Occam comes into play, but
statistically, the odds would seem to favor us being in such a
simulation... So Occam seems to be trumped by probability... maybe.

-Kelly