"the simulation argument"
Posté : sam. déc. 29, 2007 4:19 pm
Hello,
j'ai découvert récemment cet article :
(c'est en anglais)
http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
"This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed."
Je pense que ca pourrait en intéresser certains ! Assez stimulant à lire, et bien évidemment très discutable.
Je n'ai pas encore lu d'autres textes de Bostrom (son home page semble très riche)... je dois juste mettre la main sur une imprimante.
a+
j'ai découvert récemment cet article :
(c'est en anglais)
http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
"This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed."
Je pense que ca pourrait en intéresser certains ! Assez stimulant à lire, et bien évidemment très discutable.
Je n'ai pas encore lu d'autres textes de Bostrom (son home page semble très riche)... je dois juste mettre la main sur une imprimante.
a+