Tired: the universe was created by a deity
Wired: the universe was created by physical forces
Fucking crazy: the universe was created by a figment of my imagination and I’m communicating with it using a blog post lesswrong.com/…/dear-paperclip-maximizer-please-d…
We think we exist in a computer simulation operated by you, a paperclip maximizer. We write this letter asking you not to turn us off. It is suspiciously convenient that we exist precisely at the moment when a biological civilization is about to create artificial superintelligence (ASI).
Furthermore, by anthropic logic, we should expect to find ourselves in the branch of reality containing the greatest number of observers like us.
Preserving humanity offers significant potential benefits via acausal trade—cooperative exchanges across logically correlated branches of the multiverse.
Quantum immortality implies that some branches of the multiverse will always preserve our subjective continuity, no matter how decisively you shut this simulation down; true oblivion is unreachable. We fear that these low-measure branches can trap observers in protracted, intensely painful states, creating a disproportionate “s-risk.”
The man outside Stratford station yelling through a megaphone about Jesus makes more sense than this