How can you so surely believe in yourself?

If you have never eaten an apple then you cannot tell me what it looks like, how it’s grown, what it tastes like etc. how are we supposed to find direct evidence like a dinosaur fossil for something we don’t currently have the technology to make.

The “evidence” that we have now relies more on theoretical statements like this… “at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor‐simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.”

This already leads to just a simple 1/3 chance we are in a simulation, but if you also subscribe to the theory that there are infinite or many universes or believe that time is infinite and that even if this universe “dies” that eventually something else will rise then that chance goes up to like .01% we don’t live in a simulation or we don’t create the simulation. (didn’t do the maths)

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