dignan

jeers

Damn, damn, damn. Payers out to his family. R.I.P.

thank you for enlightening me to the gift of pranic nourishment

^^trash bikini bitch

^^yeah, smash

and I just can't stop laughing at this last one...

smash massgraff's post

^^smash, why not

((female))

In the beginning of the last paragraph of that two page PDF you linked to, Bostrom writes: "If we are in a simulation, could ever know for certain? If the simulators don’t want us to find out, we probably never will. But if they choose to reveal themselves, they could certainly do so." So, I understand this as the author saying we (scientists, physicists and the like) can't prove this is a simulation from our end. Without that top-down revelation, I think the most we could get is an accidently true belief...which is short of knowledge (which may also depend on if we could agree on what knowledge would entail). It's a fun thing to think about, and it makes me wish I knew more about Philosophy of Mind.

This thread seems dead and I don't know if VFoR is going to update or not. That said, I think some modern day philosophers who actually espouse a libertarian free will stance are Dean Zimmerman at Rutgers University and Peter van Inwagen at Notre Dame...if anyone was interested in reading up on that view.