And anyway, as soon as you can make a complete ancestral simulation (without knowing of any way to do so without giving consciousnesses/qualia/whatever to the simulated) you can be >99% that you live in a simulation no matter if you run anything yourself or not.
Do inaccurate ancestral simulations count for anything in this argument? Admittedly, I’m extrapolating from humans as I know them, but the combination of incomplete research, simulations modified for convenience and/or tolerability and/or to improve the story, and interest in what-if scenarios implies that even if you’re a ancestor of an ancestor simulation creating civilization, you won’t be that much like the actual ancestor.
It completely doesn’t matter whether you are a simulation of an accurate ancestor, inaccurate ancestor or HJPEV. As I am trying to point out there is nothing special to ancestral simulations and no real reason to focus only on them.
Do inaccurate ancestral simulations count for anything in this argument? Admittedly, I’m extrapolating from humans as I know them, but the combination of incomplete research, simulations modified for convenience and/or tolerability and/or to improve the story, and interest in what-if scenarios implies that even if you’re a ancestor of an ancestor simulation creating civilization, you won’t be that much like the actual ancestor.
Just for the fun of it, the Borgias on tv.
It completely doesn’t matter whether you are a simulation of an accurate ancestor, inaccurate ancestor or HJPEV. As I am trying to point out there is nothing special to ancestral simulations and no real reason to focus only on them.