Second the question. It’s been a long time since I read Tipler, but as I recall, he claimed Omega would simulate all possible humans, not just all historically real ones.
Is Tipler / the Omega Point relevant to the simulation argument? I haven’t seen him invoked in discussions thereof, and that idea (whatever its probability) seems to have a whole different set of implications, more along the lines of the confusing anthropic problems we have with Very Big Worlds and Boltzmann brains.
Relevant only to the extent that large scale simulation of the hypothetical past of the human species is a large enough (and/or pointless enough) task that it will require an Omega Point quantity of resources.
Second the question. It’s been a long time since I read Tipler, but as I recall, he claimed Omega would simulate all possible humans, not just all historically real ones.
Is Tipler / the Omega Point relevant to the simulation argument? I haven’t seen him invoked in discussions thereof, and that idea (whatever its probability) seems to have a whole different set of implications, more along the lines of the confusing anthropic problems we have with Very Big Worlds and Boltzmann brains.
Relevant only to the extent that large scale simulation of the hypothetical past of the human species is a large enough (and/or pointless enough) task that it will require an Omega Point quantity of resources.