If ancestor simulations are one of the main uses of cosmic resources, we probably will go extinct soon (somewhat depending on how you define extinction), because we’re probably in an ancestor simulation that will be turned off. If the simulators were to keep us alive for billions of years, it would be pretty unlikely that we didn’t find ourselves living in those billions of years, by the same logic as the doomsday argument.
Yeah. It depends on how you define extinction. I agree that most simulations don’t last very long. (You don’t even need the doomsday argument to get that conclusion, I think)
If ancestor simulations are one of the main uses of cosmic resources, we probably will go extinct soon (somewhat depending on how you define extinction), because we’re probably in an ancestor simulation that will be turned off. If the simulators were to keep us alive for billions of years, it would be pretty unlikely that we didn’t find ourselves living in those billions of years, by the same logic as the doomsday argument.
Yeah. It depends on how you define extinction. I agree that most simulations don’t last very long. (You don’t even need the doomsday argument to get that conclusion, I think)