However I’m not egocentric enough to imagine myself as particularly interesting to potential simulators. And so that hypothetical doesn’t significantly change my beliefs.
“Particularly interesting” in a sense in which all humans currently on earth (or in our history) are unusually interesting. It’s that compared to the scale of the universe, simulating pre singularity history doesn’t take much.
I don’t know the amount of compute needed, but I strongly suspect it’s <1 in 10^20 of the compute that fits in our universe.
In a world of 10^50 humans in a galaxy spanning empire, you are interesting just for being so early.
I agree with your caveats.
However I’m not egocentric enough to imagine myself as particularly interesting to potential simulators. And so that hypothetical doesn’t significantly change my beliefs.
“Particularly interesting” in a sense in which all humans currently on earth (or in our history) are unusually interesting. It’s that compared to the scale of the universe, simulating pre singularity history doesn’t take much.
I don’t know the amount of compute needed, but I strongly suspect it’s <1 in 10^20 of the compute that fits in our universe.
In a world of 10^50 humans in a galaxy spanning empire, you are interesting just for being so early.