“The fact that there are more ‘real’ at any given time isn’t relevant to the fact of whether any of these mayfly sims are, themselves, real.” You’re right about this, because it’s a metaphysical issue. The question, though, is epistemology: what does one have reason to believe at any given moment. If you want to say that one should bet on being a sim, then you should also say that one is in room Y in Scenario 2, which seems implausible.
I’m not sure what you mean by ‘it is a metaphysical issue’, and I’m getting kind of despairing at breaking through here, but one more time.
Just to be clear, every sim who says ‘real’ in this example is wrong, yeah? They have been deceived by the partial information they are being given, and the answer they give does not accurately represent reality. The ‘right’ call for the sims is that they are sims.
In a future like you are positing, if our universe is analogous to a sim, the ‘right’ call is that we are a sim. If, unfortunately, our designers decide to mislead us into guessing wrong by giving us numbers instead of just telling us which we are...that still wouldn’t make us real.
This is my last on the subject, but I hope you get it at this point.
“The fact that there are more ‘real’ at any given time isn’t relevant to the fact of whether any of these mayfly sims are, themselves, real.” You’re right about this, because it’s a metaphysical issue. The question, though, is epistemology: what does one have reason to believe at any given moment. If you want to say that one should bet on being a sim, then you should also say that one is in room Y in Scenario 2, which seems implausible.
I’m not sure what you mean by ‘it is a metaphysical issue’, and I’m getting kind of despairing at breaking through here, but one more time.
Just to be clear, every sim who says ‘real’ in this example is wrong, yeah? They have been deceived by the partial information they are being given, and the answer they give does not accurately represent reality. The ‘right’ call for the sims is that they are sims.
In a future like you are positing, if our universe is analogous to a sim, the ‘right’ call is that we are a sim. If, unfortunately, our designers decide to mislead us into guessing wrong by giving us numbers instead of just telling us which we are...that still wouldn’t make us real.
This is my last on the subject, but I hope you get it at this point.