We should conclude that simulations are far more likely to be fantastical than to be mundane. The fact that we live in a mundane world is some evidence against simulation.
How fantastical is Spiderman, really? He’s very strong, can climb up the sides of buildings, and swing on a thread.
Nothing is fantastical in an absolute sense. It’s always embedded in a context, relative to other things—like, for example, the past. In our world, millions of people fly all the time. Humans have traveled to the moon and back. You have a device in your pocket that’s about a million times more powerful than a room-sized 1940s computer. Cities can be vaporized with the push of a button. Dead people can be brought back to life. All kinds of fantastical things happen all the time in our world. DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TWICE! That is fantastical, whether or not you agree that it’s a good thing.
Try living in Japan or China for a couple of years before you conclude that the world is mundane and boring. To the Japanese, the society that you live in is fantastical.
How fantastical is Spiderman, really? He’s very strong, can climb up the sides of buildings, and swing on a thread.
Nothing is fantastical in an absolute sense. It’s always embedded in a context, relative to other things—like, for example, the past. In our world, millions of people fly all the time. Humans have traveled to the moon and back. You have a device in your pocket that’s about a million times more powerful than a room-sized 1940s computer. Cities can be vaporized with the push of a button. Dead people can be brought back to life. All kinds of fantastical things happen all the time in our world. DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TWICE! That is fantastical, whether or not you agree that it’s a good thing.
Try living in Japan or China for a couple of years before you conclude that the world is mundane and boring. To the Japanese, the society that you live in is fantastical.