I can’t communicate with you, for exactly the same reason. This is a serious objection, though phrased frivolously. Your statement
Each simulated agent’s experience is the sum of all possible ways that that agent’s subjective experience could happen, including all possible ways it could exist in fundamental base reality, and all possible ways it could be simulated
(emphasis mine) is given no justification whatsoever. You appear to be conflating the ensemble of all possible agents with the individual agents having different experiences in that ensemble.
Nothing you have said applies only to simulated agents, and so it seems that you are proving too much.
That is, you seem to be saying that “I” can’t communicate with “you” because some versions of “you” could be atmospheric life forms in a gas giant in a different universe where “I” am not even present.
I can’t communicate with you, for exactly the same reason. This is a serious objection, though phrased frivolously. Your statement
(emphasis mine) is given no justification whatsoever. You appear to be conflating the ensemble of all possible agents with the individual agents having different experiences in that ensemble.
Nothing you have said applies only to simulated agents, and so it seems that you are proving too much.
That is, you seem to be saying that “I” can’t communicate with “you” because some versions of “you” could be atmospheric life forms in a gas giant in a different universe where “I” am not even present.
I particularly enjoyed that phrase.
Always good to start a comment by telling the author you think they won’t listen :P (sarcasm!)
Of course jblack meant “given your assumptions..”