"Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument proposes that at least one of three outcomes holds – humanity fails to reach a posthuman stage, posthuman civilizations rarely run ancestor simulations, or we are almost certainly living in a simulation."
Bostrom's original paper presents a conditional philosophical argument about future computational capabilities and the possible existence of simulated conscious observers. It supplies the intellectual foundation for the chapter's discussion of simulation theory without requiring the assertion that our present reality has already been established as computationally simulated.
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