{"items": [{"author": "Arthur", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/612787801212?comment_id=612788908992", "anchor": "fb-612788908992", "service": "fb", "text": "It's actually hard to think of a way to do what you're talking about that isn't ethically horrifying. You are, after all, creating a huge number of living, thinking persons, putting them through whatever shit you deem necessary to test your hypothesis, then disposing of all of the people who aren't useful to you.
How would you feel to know your life up to this point was just one data point in some gigantic Monte Carlo simulation run by a cosmic experimenter to create an ideal you, and once it's clear you're not the winner you'll be shut down to save processing cycles?", "timestamp": "1368562409"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/612787801212?comment_id=612789532742", "anchor": "fb-612789532742", "service": "fb", "text": "@Arthur: \"hard to think of a way to do what you're talking about that isn't ethically horrifying\"
Agreed. At this point I'm mostly trying to think through what's possible in order to understand what might happen.", "timestamp": "1368562959"}, {"author": "Bryce", "source_link": "https://plus.google.com/110073329443149494347", "anchor": "gp-1368567841023", "service": "gp", "text": "This work by Scott Page seems relevant to the comment about copies of John von Neumann taking over the world:\n
\nhttp://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~spage/pnas.pdf", "timestamp": 1368567841}, {"author": "Andrew", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/612787801212?comment_id=612809397932", "anchor": "fb-612809397932", "service": "fb", "text": "Why don't you think thinking speed would speed up the generation of new ideas?", "timestamp": "1368579946"}, {"author": "MN", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/612787801212?comment_id=612820775132", "anchor": "fb-612820775132", "service": "fb", "text": "I should point out that, if this is possible, the likelyhood of any individual person being a simulation aproaches 1.", "timestamp": "1368587417"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/612787801212?comment_id=612854767012", "anchor": "fb-612854767012", "service": "fb", "text": "@Andrew: \"Why don't you think thinking speed would speed up the generation of new ideas?\"
I think it would. But maybe not by as much as some of these other factors.", "timestamp": "1368597278"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/jefftk/posts/612787801212?comment_id=612854821902", "anchor": "fb-612854821902", "service": "fb", "text": "@Noda: http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html", "timestamp": "1368597400"}]}