If you link me to a post, I’ll take a look at it. But I seem to remember EY coming down on the side of empiricism over rationalism (the sort that sees an armchair philosopher as a superior source of knowledge), and “just simulate the entire universe” comments strike me as heavily in the camp of rationalism.
I think you might be mixing up my complaints, and I apologize for shuffling them in together. I have no physical context for hacking outside of the matrix, and so have no clue what he’s drawing on besides fictional evidence. Separately, I consider it stunningly ignorant to say “Just simulate the entire universe” in the context of basic epistemology, and hope EY hasn’t posted something along those lines.
If you link me to a post, I’ll take a look at it. But I seem to remember EY coming down on the side of empiricism over rationalism (the sort that sees an armchair philosopher as a superior source of knowledge), and “just simulate the entire universe” comments strike me as heavily in the camp of rationalism.
I think you might be mixing up my complaints, and I apologize for shuffling them in together. I have no physical context for hacking outside of the matrix, and so have no clue what he’s drawing on besides fictional evidence. Separately, I consider it stunningly ignorant to say “Just simulate the entire universe” in the context of basic epistemology, and hope EY hasn’t posted something along those lines.
Simulating the entire universe does seem to require some unusual assumptions of knowledge and computational power.