We probably live in a simulation with the purpose of producing the best anime. This is why we are living in an age with so much anime and with so many people who are interested in anime. The anime maximizing AI is simulating all kinds of scenarios from abiogenesis to a prolific anime industry. Most possible scenarios of life evolving from its first forms would not lead to the development of an anime industry, which is why it would be improbable for us to exist in a world with anime, if not for the fact that the simulated scenarios without anime in them are dropped and not simulated further.

2. We’re likelier to be in a simulation run by whoever creates many simulations.

would love to ask these dorks "what is the event space of this probability distribution" and "have you heard of a category error"

Only rationalists (and possibly Chat-GPT) have the spark of life. The rest of us? Unfortunately we're computationally efficient p-zombies. Mere cardboard cutouts designed to give flavor text to motivate the main characters.

Remember not to offer player characters any SP Potions, that was last universe when we were in the RPG universe!

The space of possible evolved biological minds is far smaller than the space of possible ASI minds

Achkshually, Yudkowskian Orthodoxy says any truly super-intelligent minds will converge on Expected Value Maximization, Instrumental Goals, and Timeless-Decision Theory (as invented by Eliezer), so clearly the ASI mind space is actually quite narrow.

Back in my edgy atheist era I found the ontological argument in apologetics to be compelling, though not terribly convincing. And here I thought they would content themselves reinventing Pascal's wager. Now let me see if I can find one of those copypasta about the best conceivable plate of nachos.

trying to process this post is giving me a headache, so I am giving up. Here, have this:

cart FAR

oh that's what CFAR is short for.

alt: hehe. fart car