Although it was not via the lottery, my wife’s sister won one million dollars on a TV show in the 1980s called “The one million dollar chance of a lifetime”. It turns out that she and her husband would get $40,000 a year for 25 years, but they got divorced a few years later, so she received $20,000 a year until recently. It was quite a contrast between the show’s promise to “make you a millionaire” and the actual very modest improvement in lifestyle from an extra $20,000 a year.
Anyway, none of you know her so this doesn’t disprove the principle for you, but maybe it makes it a little more likely that I am in a simulation. The real problem with this conclusion is that it seems to require believing that most people (i.e. all of you readers among others) are zombies, which seems untenable. Otherwise my sister in law’s presence on the holodeck puts me there, and you as well.
Although it was not via the lottery, my wife’s sister won one million dollars on a TV show in the 1980s called “The one million dollar chance of a lifetime”. It turns out that she and her husband would get $40,000 a year for 25 years, but they got divorced a few years later, so she received $20,000 a year until recently. It was quite a contrast between the show’s promise to “make you a millionaire” and the actual very modest improvement in lifestyle from an extra $20,000 a year.
Anyway, none of you know her so this doesn’t disprove the principle for you, but maybe it makes it a little more likely that I am in a simulation. The real problem with this conclusion is that it seems to require believing that most people (i.e. all of you readers among others) are zombies, which seems untenable. Otherwise my sister in law’s presence on the holodeck puts me there, and you as well.