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We're living in a simulation

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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.
 
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 🙂
 
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'?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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