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How to Invest in a Simulation

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Sep 21, 2025
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If the world ends when the audience gets bored, what should a seed investor fund?

That is the fun, slightly unnerving starting point. Not because we know we live in a simulation, but because assigning any non‑zero probability to it changes optimal behavior at the margins. Robin Hanson’s classic thought experiment says that if you might be simulated, you …

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