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Episode #095 ... Are you living in a simulation?

2016/12/30
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主持人:本期节目探讨了哲学问题,例如我们如何知道我们所知,并以此引出模拟理论的讨论。主持人深入分析了笛卡尔的思想实验,以及其对现实本质的质疑。节目中,主持人介绍了尼克·博斯特罗姆的模拟理论,并详细阐述了该理论提出的三种可能性:人类灭绝、失去兴趣或生活在模拟世界。主持人结合费米悖论和德雷克方程,探讨了人类灭绝的可能性,并分析了末日理论。此外,主持人还探讨了创造模拟世界可能面临的伦理困境,以及技术瓶颈,例如对宇宙本质的理解不足。最后,主持人总结道,即使我们生活在模拟世界中,我们的日常生活也不会发生太大改变,并鼓励听众思考我们对现实的认知。

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The episode explores the philosophical questions about knowledge and reality, drawing parallels to Descartes' skepticism and his famous 'cogito ergo sum' argument.

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Today we discuss the famous paper by Nick Bostrom about the probability that we are living in a simulation. 

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