and honestly, even if it is a simulation, so what? do you have a way to get out? can you even exist outside of it? do you hurt or love any less knowing that? what are you supposed to do about it? give up? lay your simulation body on the simulation dirt and simulation die?
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
If what we perceive as reality is a simulation the purpose is quite clear, to observe the behavior of overconfident idiots unfettered by the mediating tendencies of a too reasonable reality.
shneancy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
krunklom@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
If it’s a simulation someone must be running it. Maybe we could get their attention somehow.
Praying obviously doesn’t work. Maybe if we all stripped naked and just kind of started getting it on in a giant juicy fuck pile that would get their attention.
And they could make things suck less.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
That’s assuming the someone running the simulation is even aware we are here. For all we know, they’re just trying to model out the behavior of stars and black holes.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
That’s why we should get all up in each others’ holes
dmention7@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
If I was playing The Sims, and one of my Sims started showing up mistakeable signs of self awareness, I would panic and ctrl-alt-delete that shit so fast.
Maybe its better if we DMT-and-lasers our way into a plan before we start banging on the glass.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I’d just sims harder but that’s just me
Natanael@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
Last Thursdayism is when they reload the save
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Shit, it’s broken again, where’s the reset button?
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Roll up a simulation joint and get simulation high
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Absurdism is your friend. If nothing matters in the long run, if all of existence is absurd, why not enjoy the here and now?
shneancy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
yes, been a fan of Camus’s philosophy since i was 16ish
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Exactly this. Thank you for spelling it out
HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Maybe it’s some higher dimensional grad student simulating something to get some plots to add to a poster his postdoc wants him to present at a small time conference somewhere. Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.
forrgott@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Your reply kinda reminds me of Thirteenth Floor.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Maybe it’s some kid’s half-assed science project.
bobo@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Lisp is the true God’s programming language…
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HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Wow awesome cover!
Naz@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
That’s so many nested assumptions, lol:
Assumption table
The probability value of all four being true simultaneously approaches ≈0%
Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.
angrystego@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Come on, it doesn’t work like this. You can disprove the funny theory only if you give us an even more ridiculous one in it’s stead.
muzzle@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Most of it is empty. The trick is lazy evaluation.
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Our telescopes eats up CPU cycles fast, the poor blokes cloud server will come with an unsuspecting bill this month…
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yeah, it uses a simplified model unless you look too close. That’s how you get those funny quantum effects. Although, I have to say, great sativa, dude
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I mean, if it’s really a simulation, all of that would be… simulated.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I know; I’m just fishing out counter-examples and counter-arguments. I’m in the rare cadre of participants who like to roam around on the interior of the sim