Re your edit: That bit seems roughly correct to me.
If we are in a simulation, SIA doesn’t have strong views on late filters for unsimulated reality. (This is my question (B) above.) And since SIA thinks we’re almost certainly in a simulation, it’s not crazy to say that SIA doesn’t have strong view on late filters for unsimulated reality. SIA is very ok with small late filters, as long as we live in a simulation, which SIA says we probably do.
But yeah, it is a little bit confusing, in that we care more about late-filters-in-unsimulated reality if we live in unsimulated reality. And in the (unlikely) case that we do, then we should ask my question (C) above, in which case SIA do have strong views on late filters.
Ah, I agree. I misread that bit as about filters for us given that we are non-simulated, but really it’s about filters for non-simulated civilizations, which under the simulation argument our existence doesn’t tell us much about. Thanks.
Re your edit: That bit seems roughly correct to me.
If we are in a simulation, SIA doesn’t have strong views on late filters for unsimulated reality. (This is my question (B) above.) And since SIA thinks we’re almost certainly in a simulation, it’s not crazy to say that SIA doesn’t have strong view on late filters for unsimulated reality. SIA is very ok with small late filters, as long as we live in a simulation, which SIA says we probably do.
But yeah, it is a little bit confusing, in that we care more about late-filters-in-unsimulated reality if we live in unsimulated reality. And in the (unlikely) case that we do, then we should ask my question (C) above, in which case SIA do have strong views on late filters.
Ah, I agree. I misread that bit as about filters for us given that we are non-simulated, but really it’s about filters for non-simulated civilizations, which under the simulation argument our existence doesn’t tell us much about. Thanks.