I don’t think that we’re in a simulation, but I do find myself occasionally entertaining the idea of it.

I think it would be kinda funny, because I have seen so much ridiculous shit in my life, that the idea that all those ridiculous things were simulated inside a computer or that maybe an external player did those things that I witnessed, is just too weird and funny at the same time lol.

Also, I play Civilizations VI and I occasionally wonder ‘What if those settlers / soldiers / units / whatever are actually conscious. What if those lines of code actually think that they’re alive?’. In that case, they are in a simulation. The same could apply to other life simulators, such as the Sims 4.

Idk, what does Lemmy think about it?

  • magnetosphere
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    48 months ago

    There’s no way to know, so meh. It’s not a reason to live any differently than I normally would.

    • @kromem
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      27 months ago

      We just straight up discovered sync errors in our universe and people are like “there’s no way to know if we’re in a simulation.”

      I wouldn’t be so sure that there’s no way to know.

      Thousands of years ago you had the story where Elihu tells Job that it’s impossible to understand creation because why it rains and where snow comes from is beyond human understanding.

      Statements like that have a poor track record given enough time.