We're living in a simulation

[[DHT]Osiris]

why is it that this nonsense only ever comes from developers that spend their lives in basements writing code, knowing nothing of people or actual life, and have to imagine that everything is code just to defend their miserable existence?

Because we're better at pattern recognition than others?

 

[repoman0]

why is it that this nonsense only ever comes from developers that spend their lives in basements writing code, knowing nothing of people or actual life, and have to imagine that everything is code just to defend their miserable existence?

Because it’s religion in disguise and humans are hardwired to believe in it. Laws of physics and the mathematics that describe them too complicated? Must be a simulation. Never mind that it’s unprovable and then the laws of physics one level up must be unimaginably more complex to simulate the 20 quantum fields that define our world.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Because it’s religion in disguise

Only if you're looking for one.

Never mind that it’s unprovable

Probably not true. Might be hard to prove negatively, but then you're just searching for another Jesus.

the laws of physics one level up must be unimaginably more complex to simulate the 20 quantum fields that define our world.

Nope!

 

[repoman0]

Only if you're looking for one.


Probably not true. Might be hard to prove negatively, but then you're just searching for another Jesus.

Nope!

Spoken with all the convincing arguments, fervent belief and lack of proof of a religious person 🙂

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Spoken with all the convincing arguments, fervent belief and lack of proof of a religious person 🙂

I find that it's better to wait until someone asks for details before 'proselytizing'.

 

[Kaido]

Now you got me thinking, I wonder if you can run DOOM on a DMS100. 😛

I keep a file on things that can play Doom, such as:

* Treadmills
* Pregnancy tests
* Windows Task Manager
* TI-83 calculators
* PDF files (takes a minute to load)
* In Minecraft on a Redstone virtual computer
* E.coli cells
* Ultrasound
* Digital cameras

Most recently...on the oldest computer in America lol:

 

[Gizmo j]

The simulation is probably written in C++.

 

[nakedfrog]

I keep a file on things that can play Doom, such as:

* Treadmills
* Pregnancy tests
* Windows Task Manager
* TI-83 calculators
* PDF files (takes a minute to load)
* In Minecraft on a Redstone virtual computer
* E.coli cells
* Ultrasound
* Digital cameras

Most recently...on the oldest computer in America lol:

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The pregnancy test doesn't count because he replaced the CPU

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's hilarious stuff. It really does run on anything!

 

[Kaido]

@Gizmo j Ahah found the suitcase Cyberdeck video:

 

[igor_kavinski]

* Windows Task Manager

That should shut up the people who go, "What do you need all those cores for???"

😀

 

[zinfamous]

Because we're better at pattern recognition than others?

and you self-determine that it has to be code based rather than, you know, natural law. Because it's all you know.

 

[igor_kavinski]

natural law

Laws can be modeled with code so it's possible that there is an emulation layer abstracting us from the "real" reality.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

and you self-determine that it has to be code based rather than, you know, natural law. Because it's all you know.

But it is code based, the code is mathematics. You cannot define a single thing in our entire reality that isn't definable by mathematics.

 

[sandorski]

I imagined a Thing that mimics Reality, therefore Reality works the same....is a Fallacy.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I imagined a Thing that mimics Reality, therefore Reality works the same....is a Fallacy.

What do you call 'we observe trends which we've seen elsewhere, and may have similar sources. Various theories and experiments are being developed to test this observation and subsequent hypotheses'?

 

[sandorski]

Maybe we are in Deep Sleep heading to New Earth. Just another lifetime to go.

 

[IronWing]

What do you call 'we observe trends which we've seen elsewhere, and may have similar sources. Various theories and experiments are being developed to test this observation and subsequent hypotheses'?

The simulation idea is not a falsifiable hypothesis.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

The simulation idea is not a falsifiable hypothesis.

Probably not (or at least I'm not aware of a way to prove it false), it's potentially provable true though, or at least provide evidence that can't reasonably be explained outside of a simulation hypothesis.

I personally think we've already observed a few pieces of evidence for this, it just hasn't been formally identified as such.

 

[Muse]

That's hilarious stuff. It really does run on anything!

There is no Doom in my house.

 

[Muse]

Reality is an illusion albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

 

[Kaido]

The simulation is probably written in C++.

The simulation is written in AI! Buy the new Gizmo plushie!

 

[lxskllr]

Ya know, I'd consider buying a gizmo plushie. If he made it, it would almost be a certainty.

 

[Muse]

A bunch of random numbers add up to 69? And this is proof of... The author thinks there is a 420 in there. I can pull a bunch of numbers to mean anything. Christians do this all the time. How the number of passages in the bible are equal to some date, and its on this date Jesus will return. It never happens btw. I do think our perception of the world is colored by our life experiences, culture, family, etc.

As a guy with a degree in mathematics I'm here to tell you that any hocus pocus about integers fucked around pointing to something else is goddamn hogwash and anybody hocking that crap is a total jerk.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Things get more interesting when dealing with floats though, especially on a Pentium 1.