"Hans Moravec publicly entertained the possibility that our apparent reality is already a computer simulation years before Nick Bostrom published his simulation argument."
Platt's 1995 interview records Moravec reasoning that technologically advanced machine civilizations might recreate human societies in vast numbers of simulations, making simulated observers more numerous than their original counterparts. This creates a direct historical connection between Moravec's forecasts about superintelligent robots and the simulation hypothesis later formalized by Bostrom.
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