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Bad Horse's avatar

"population, technology and so forth have evolved with increasing speed throughout history" -- Population is a number. It is nonsensical to say that population evolves. Technology is a product of reason; it therefore does not evolve. Gelfer thinks "evolve" means "grow".

"Given how much perceptions around gender have changed in the past 50 years, if we accept a pattern of exponential development in such perceptions..." -- Now we see Gelfer thinks "evolve", "grow", "develop", and "improve" are all synonyms. He has no understanding of evolution, and a serious misunderstanding of culture and ethics. Basically your typical circa-1910 view that "everything always gets better" describes and explains all social change.

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Stephen Diamond's avatar

But the question Marshall Bolton raised is how knowing that they are in a simulation alters the experience (even if the simulation is locally flawless).

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