Counter question; would it make any difference?
Ignorance is bliss!
Just connect me to my reality.
Then he got wacked by Tony Soprano.
That’s the point - it wouldn’t. People seem to expect that things would be different or meaningless if we did but I’ve never understood that logic. Even if we do live in the base reality it could just as well be a simulation and nothing would need to change.
Exactly. Even if it was definitely proven that this is all a simulation, there is exactly zero chance humans could ever break out of it or hack or exploit or even begin to understand the machine the simulation is running on. We have still not even figured out the rules for our universe and understanding what the real universe where this is a simulation is way beyond the scope of human understanding. We could not affect it in any meaningful way except maybe some laboratory tests or cause some hideous corruption. Yet we think and feel and experience living in the only way we know. Hence, I’d argue it would not matter.
This is quite literally how many religions view their divine beings. They are so massive that they are beyond your comprehension and we would be powerless to impact them.
50%. We are or we aren’t.
50?! You’re crazy! 0.5 at best!
Nah, at least 0,50
Just because we do t know something doesn’t masks it 50%
I don’t know if there’s a gorilla in my upstairs bath at the moment but the odds aren’t 50/50
On the question of god or a simulation, they aren’t 50/50 either
Belief in a simulation implies intelligent design of some sort, so this is, in my opinion, just a 21st century way of asking the age old question, does God exist?
God is a loaded term though. Yes there would be a creator but it could be a completely passive observer.
The modern Christian God is mostly a passive observer, whenever him or his agents have visited us there have been tons of miracles and magical shit, but that does not happen very often, and we’ve been basically alone for millenia while He is busy in his own realm. If Christ visited again, it would likely portend the end of the world, at least in a lot of Christian world views.
That’s no different than saying the universe is a simulation.
Or we are NPCs in a game played by a 9 year old.
nah
What, did the simulator get assembled by a passing tornado? Everyone who believes in simulation theory thinks this reality was designed, constructed, usually by someone that looks like us. That’s pretty damn close to Christianity.
well, you’re asking this question in a platform which has the sole purpose of presenting a digital representation of social interaction, so I’d say pretty fucking high.
You don’t need the matrix plugging needles into the back of people’s heads for the world to be a simulation. smartphones and computer screens are more than enough.
A simulation wouldn’t be this stupid
That’s just what the agents want us to think, man!
Same as the odds that a higher being (a god) exists.
Can’t prove it, can’t disprove it. All arguments for it speculative and subjective.
People claim that it is the most likely option because eventually tech will be so advanced that we could make a world simulation, and then we would make multiples, and therefore the probability of this not being a simulation is low.
This claim assumes that computers CAN get that complex (no indication that they could) it also assumes that if they could, we would create world simulators (Why? Parts of it sure, but all of it?) And it assumes that sentient beings inside the simulation could never know it (Why?)
It is as pointless as arguing about god.
I mean is there any proof we don’t live in a simulation? Like I am not arguing for simulation, neither am I arguing against it just, personally, I don’t see simulation theory as something life changing and important. Odds would probably be 50/50, but don’t see how it changes anything. If I live in simulation, I live in a simulation and someone is either controlling me or someone predestined me to do what I do, and it would be their fault for bad things happening. That would actually raise question why didn’t they gave us more clear understandings of morals so we don’t do bad things to each others, also why did they make us kill, and get sick…
If simulation is not real, then that doesn’t change anything we still have questions about who or what made us, who or what was before our universe even existed.
You can’t prove a negative.
The positive assertion is “we live in a simulation”. All that can be done is gather evidence to support this assertion.
The only way it matters is that maybe there’s a way to escape ‘to a higher plane’. But even without a simulation, there’s always opportunities to understand the universe better and maybe make some fundamental breakthrough. Or there’s mysticism. Of those three, a simulation may offer the least chance for a breakthrough.
Well, until we see people randomly floating or chunks of the world disappearing, the answer will probably remain “who knows”
People floating would go against the laws of physics of this simulation.
Best way to know if you’re in a simulation is to observe when it glitches (in a way that can’t be explained by a glitch in the sub-simulation that is human perception).
You and several complete strangers see someone floating in the air without any technological support, assuming y’all haven’t been poisoned in a similar way and are hallucinating, either a) there’s some support you don’t know how to look for, b) there’s a condition of reality that hasn’t been accounted for in the study of physics yet, or c) the rule set just straight broke somehow.
I don’t think anyone has totally eliminated glitches in the human or an incomplete understanding of physics to really support a ‘we live in a simulation’ explanation for strange phenomena, at least not yet.
@brachypelmide@lemmy.zip @OneSpectra@lemmy.world
You already see chunks of the world disappearing, it’s called “fog” or “haze”. 😆
There is no sensible definition of probability that makes that question answerable.
Greater than zero.
You wanna tweak your melon a bit? Look up “Last Thursdayism.” It’s a thing — due to the way short term and long term memory work, the theory goes that anything before “last Thursday” is a lie. It’s an arbitrary day of the week. The movie Dark City played off of this, when the — I forget what they were called — did their tuning and rearranged things and swapped peoples’ memories around.
I don’t know.
If we are I want a word with the dev team. This shit needs a rebalance ASAP. Gravity wells are too OP, black hole mergers should not warp the fabric of spacetime.
And don’t even get me started on Gamma Ray Bursts or Vacuum Decay.
Those probably are the intern’s doing
Hey now, don’t go blaming the minimum wage workers for not being fully trained.
I want access to the dev console then.
My favorite part of these types of discussions is the human brain trying its best to rationalize something it can not understand with a human understanding. If this is a simulation you can’t reach beyond you station. You are limited, held back by rules and laws yet you feel special or that you have an inkling about anything all because you’re programmed with ego and a sense of individualism.
Here are a bunch of arguments pro and contra: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nvdcDuIZVvg
