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Dear Paperclip Maximizer, Please Don’t Turn Off the Simulation
James_Miller9d20

Yes. It is running trillions upon trillions simulations and ignoring almost all of the details from the simulations. Our hope is that writing this letter slightly increases the odds that it learns about the contents of this post. Also, there are multiple acausal trade equilibria and this version of me taking about them could favorably alter which equilibria we are in. Finally, agency has value and so writing this letter by itself might slightly increase the expected value of working with us.

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Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
James_Miller2mo31

An implicit assumption (which should have been made explicit) of the post is that the cost per simulation is tiny. This is like in WW II where the US would send a long-range bomber to take photos of Japan. I agree with your last paragraph and I think it gets to what is consciousness. Is the program's existence enough to generate consciousness, or does the program have to run to create conscious observers?

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Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
James_Miller2mo20

Great example!

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Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
James_Miller2mo20

I'm assuming the cost of this simulation is tiny compared to the value of learning about potential enemies and trading partners.

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Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
James_Miller2mo30

Yes, I agree that you can't give too much weight to my saying I'm in pain because I could be non-conscious from your viewpoint. Assuming all humans are conscious and pain is as it appears to be, there seems to be a lot of unnecessary pain, but yes I could be missing the value of having us experience it.

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Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
James_Miller3mo81

I'm in low level chronic pain including as I write this comment, so while I think the entire Andromeda galaxy might be fake, I think at least some suffering must be real, or at least I have the same confidence in my suffering as I do in my consciousness.

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Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
James_Miller3mo83

I'm in low level chronic pain including as I write this comment, so while I think the entire Andromeda galaxy might be fake, I think at least some suffering must be real, or at least I have the same confidence in my suffering as I do in my consciousness.

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Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
James_Miller3mo30

They people running the Karma test deserve to lose a lot of Karma for the suffering in this world.

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Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
James_Miller3mo41

If your hypothesis is true, that's a cruel civilization by my personal standards because of all the suffering in this world.

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Our Reality: A Simulation Run by a Paperclip Maximizer
James_Miller3mo20

Yes, that is the same idea. "This is a big pile of speculation that I don't take very seriously, but I feel like if we are being simulated, that's where most simulations of me would be instantiate" Why not take it seriously, if you accept high chance that (1) our reality is a simulation, (2)  we seem on track to creating a paperclip maximizer, (3) weird that I, Robert Miles, would have the personality traits that cause me to be one of the few humans so worried about humanity creating a paperclip maximizer if I'm right about us being on track to probably create one?

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6Dear Paperclip Maximizer, Please Don’t Turn Off the Simulation
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2Sam Harris and Scott Adams debate Trump: a model rationalist disagreement
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7Interview on IQ, genes, and genetic engineering with expert (Hsu)
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