> Every day I'm finding it harder to believe we're not already in a simulation.
Seek help before it’s too late.
Seek help before it’s too late.
So I wouldn’t be so quick as to write that off.
I would especially expect adherents to various religions to understand simulation as a probable foundational mechanism of their faith, considering that many religions essentially directly imply the formation of the universe as information based… but then science seems to be converging on information being the fundamental ether as well, so who knows.
Causality is convoluted and complex, the urge to ignore it has always overcome the less-curious individuals that are predisposed to hysteria and listlessness. Citing LLMs as the latest reason why we're simulated is not going to precipitate some scientific revolution in the understanding of reality. The underlying mechanics of text synthesis are easy to learn, they just don't want to learn it.
I don’t think that is what I was saying.
The simulation hypothesis is not based on things being unexplained, but rather by the probability of existence in a root universe or in a spawned simulated one.
This presumes a condition where life evolves and creates simulations, and those simulations then create simulations.
The idea is the probability of being in the single “real” universe versus being in one of the infinitely more numerous simulations. Basically infinity vs infinity^infinity.
It’s much more likely to be in the n=infinity^infinity set, rather than the mere infinite set. It’s purely a statistical proposition, with charitable assumptions about the possibility of creating simulations of arbitrary complexity.
If you were interpreting my religion reference, what I meant was assertions adjacent to statements like “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Which are found in many religions. In my understanding this would seem to mean that information was the foundational underpinning of all reality, physical and spiritual.
Terminally online doomerism is what needs to be reined in.
This tech is legitimately the jet packs we dreamed of as kids. It's better, even.
In the same way that 42 remains 42 even after the calculator is switched off, your experience of reality inside the "simulation" remains even after the simulator is switched off.
All the simulator does is expose the contents of the simulation to one who is outside it. It does nothing for those of us who are inside it, our experiences were there all along.
All possible configurations of the game of life "exist" inside the infinite structure of the game of life, independently of whether you evaluate them so that you can see how they proceed.
All possible chess games "exist" inside the infinite structure of chess, independently of whether you play them out.