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Open Peer Commentary on JET Volume 7

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If you might be living in a simulation then all else equal you should care less about others, live more for today, make your world look more likely to become rich, expect to and try more to participate in pivotal events, be more entertaining and praiseworthy, and keep the famous people around you happier and more interested in you. People love to pretend, and to watch others pretending. From story-telling to plays to movies to virtual reality, we keep getting better at making people feel like they are watching imagined places and events. We also keep getting better at role-playing, i.e., creating environments where several people can see what happens when they all pretend they are different people in another time and place. Eventually such role-playing simulations may get so good that people will often forget that it is just a simulation. This brings us to the intriguing premise of many recent movies, including The Matrix, 13th Floor, Truman Show, and Dark City: what if people in the f

Open Peer Commentary on JET Volume 7 Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies contents call for papers editorial board how to submit to JET support JET & IEET search JET Journal of Evolution and Technology Vol. 7 - September 2001 - PDF Version http://jetpress.org/volume7/simulation.html How To Live In A Simulation * by Robin Hanson If you might be living in a simulation then all else equal you should care less about others, live more for today, make your world look more likely to become rich, expect to and try more to participate in pivotal events, be more entertaining and praiseworthy,

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