[extropy-chat] Re: Structure of AI

[scerir]

From: "Adrian Tymes" 

> For example: are we in a highly detailed computer
> simulation, or is this reality just what it appears
> to be?  Answer: if the simulation is detailed enough
> that we can never tell the difference, then it does
> not matter - any and every action we do has the same
> effect, and the universe we perceive behaves in
> exactly the same way.  (Note that this specifically
> excludes, for example, Agent Smith like characters: if
> they were present, we could eventually detect them,
> and thus we would have a way to find out that we were
> in a sim.)  

Is a simulation 'detailed enough' the same as a simulation
'deterministic enough'? Because, in this case, the simulation
would be too strong, that is to say no 'free will' (whatever 
it means) would be allowed.