posts tagged ‘existential-risk’



May 1st, 2006
10:38 am
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Just found the COOLEST thing to be worried about!

Was reading this article by Nick Bostrom, a philosopher from Oxford, on potential “existential risks”–risks that could threaten the very existence of human life on this planet. There was the normal stuff–nanobots run amok, nuclear winter–and then this:

4.3         We’re living in a simulation and it gets shut down
A case can be made that the hypothesis [...]





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