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Oxford's archive identifies Bostrom's peer-reviewed simulation paper as published in 2003 and summarizes its formal three-proposition argument. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Are you living in a computer simulation? · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:9a451185a008f7092e6c75c9b075110d8aa5d552942710be61c7706ef699c76f

Exact excerpt

This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a "posthuman" stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. ... Publication date: 2003-04-01.

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Claim	Direction	Relevance	Steps	Counted
65b1d049	SUPPORT	MODERATE	1	yes

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