m. c. de marco

I keep remembering, googling, and recommending this story, but I don’t seem to have ever blogged the link. So, for the record, “I don’t know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility” by Sam Hughes is a great story about simulism.

The New York Times belatedly discovers simulism:

Dr. Bostrom assumes that technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or “posthumans,” could run “ancestor simulations” of their evolutionary history by creating virtual worlds inhabited by virtual people with fully developed virtual nervous systems.