If we’re in a simulation, why bother doing anything? | Letters
by Guardian Staff from Technology | The Guardian on (#2MTE9)
Clever minds should devote themselves to real problems
The Science & Tech feature ("What if virtual reality is outside the headset?" New Review) was fascinating, if somewhat more science fiction than one might have preferred. It has to be bizarre in the extreme that, if the hypothesis is true, we, the computer simulants/avatars, have started to believe that we are just that and there is some sort of intelligent creator culture designing us in the "real world" .
It would be far more meaningful if the big brains such as Ranyard, Bostrom and Musk et al, who are thinking up this stuff, devoted their undoubted cleverness to finding solutions for many of the ills of the human condition.
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