Today, we often simulate our human ancestors’ lives, e.g., Civilization. Our descendants will like want to simulate their own ancestors, namely us, and they may have much-improved simulation technology which support sentience. So, our simulators are likely to be our (post-)human descendants.
People like us like to simulate people like themselves.
Therefore, if the simulators are like us, then they simulate people like them.
They simulate us.
Therefore, if the simulators are like us, then we are like them.
That argument seems a bit empty, to say the least.
Now I suppose your argument is more like “We exist, therefore our descendants are more likely to exist than the average mind; and we want to simulate stuff, therefore our descendants are more likely to be simulators than the average mind. Therefore, a simulator is more likely to be one of our descendants than to be any random mind.”, which is valid. But I deny the premise; we like to simulate some things about our ancestors, but not our ancestors themselves.
Our simulators clearly don’t care about morality, for general reasons of theodicy. If they are like our descendants, then our descendants are likely to be unspeakably evil. This implies that we should destroy humanity now, to avoid birthing a race that will simulate matryoshka atrocities.
People like us like to simulate people like themselves.
Therefore, if the simulators are like us, then they simulate people like them.
They simulate us.
Therefore, if the simulators are like us, then we are like them.
That argument seems a bit empty, to say the least.
Now I suppose your argument is more like “We exist, therefore our descendants are more likely to exist than the average mind; and we want to simulate stuff, therefore our descendants are more likely to be simulators than the average mind. Therefore, a simulator is more likely to be one of our descendants than to be any random mind.”, which is valid. But I deny the premise; we like to simulate some things about our ancestors, but not our ancestors themselves.
Our simulators clearly don’t care about morality, for general reasons of theodicy. If they are like our descendants, then our descendants are likely to be unspeakably evil. This implies that we should destroy humanity now, to avoid birthing a race that will simulate matryoshka atrocities.