> From: Matt Mahoney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Interesting question. Suppose you simulated a world where agents had > enough > intelligence to ponder this question. What do you think they would do? > > My guess is that agents in a simulated evolutionary environment that > correctly > believe that the world is a simulation would be less likely to pass on > their > genes than agents that falsely believe the world is real. >
In a sim world there are many variables that can overcome other motivators so a change in the rate of gene proliferation would be difficult to predict. The agents that correctly believe that it is a simulation could say OK this is all fake, I'm going for pure pleasure with total disregard for anything else. But still too many variables to predict. In humanity there have been times in the past where societies have given credence to simulation through religious beliefs and weighted more heavily on a disregard for other groups existence. A society would say that this is all fake, we all gotta die sometime anyway so we are going to take as much as we can from other tribes and decimate them for sport. Not saying this was always the reason for intertribal warfare but sometimes it was. But the problem is in the question of what really is a simulation? For the agents constrained, it doesn't matter they still have to live in it - feel pain, fight for food, get along with other agents... Moving an agent from one simulation to the next though, that gives it some sort of extra properties... John ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&id_secret=85201273-86d420
