I assumed you meant that you (as the one running the simulation) had arranged for people to be change-blind. Which means that there’s no particular reason that you yourself would be change-blind.
So you can’t just make the people copies of yourself, or the world a copy of your own world. You have to design them from scratch, and then put together a whole history for the universe so that their having evolved to be change-blind fits with the supposed past.
On edit: and of course you can’t just let them evolve and assume they’ll be change-blind, unless you have a pretty darned impressive ability to predict how that will come out.
OK, wait, I think I get it. It’s an anthropic thing. You happen to be human, and humans happen to be change-blind, so you take advantage of that to run your simulation, and we observe it because you wouldn’t have run the simulation if you (and therefore we) weren’t change-blind. Is that right?
Doesn’t that mean you have to do an awful lot of work to design everything in tremendous detail, and also fabricate the back story?
I don’t actually follow—how does change blindness in people relate to how much stuff you have to design?
I assumed you meant that you (as the one running the simulation) had arranged for people to be change-blind. Which means that there’s no particular reason that you yourself would be change-blind.
So you can’t just make the people copies of yourself, or the world a copy of your own world. You have to design them from scratch, and then put together a whole history for the universe so that their having evolved to be change-blind fits with the supposed past.
On edit: and of course you can’t just let them evolve and assume they’ll be change-blind, unless you have a pretty darned impressive ability to predict how that will come out.
OK, wait, I think I get it. It’s an anthropic thing. You happen to be human, and humans happen to be change-blind, so you take advantage of that to run your simulation, and we observe it because you wouldn’t have run the simulation if you (and therefore we) weren’t change-blind. Is that right?