FYI, we all ARE living in simulations. Just not a shared one. You think that’s reality you are looking at? Nope. That’s what some organic based computer has constructed to emulate reality. It does a really good job of fidelity by gathering information about the real world and using it to update the simulation. And it takes what you do in the simulation and feeds it to attached physical units.
It’s not a stretch to think that some inorganic computer could replace the organic one and that all the information the organic one was gathering is being simulated as well.
But I take the approach with this I do with aliens. Sure, they might exist. But until they have some bearing on my life, I chose to not give a shit.
This is one of those things that people really like to argue about but… honestly, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if we are actually running on the bare metal hardware or if we are being emulated, nothing really changes. We are either just as meaningless or meaningful. Heck, if we are emulated we might actually have more meaning! If you believe in God does it matter if he is a sysadmin or not?
My nonchalance on the subject tends to infuriate my significant other.
You know what’s not a simulation? Survival situations. Mass casualty events. Fires, crashes, pandemics… when things go so drastically wrong, it’s hard to argue that the programmers meant for this to happen( though sure, people argue it anyway).
Anyway, the aspect of disasters that fascinate me, is when people indulge their biases in ways that get them killed. Its often obvious after the fact, but during the crisis, people seem too distracted to notice how harmful their actions are going to be.
I really miss the simulations we used to have in elementary school called, fire drills. It was a safe time to think about the unthinkable, and disrupted our routine in a way I really remember enjoying at the time.
That was before the mass shooter drills. It still bugs me that fire drills teach us to evacuate, shooter drills teach us to hunker down, and no preperation is made at all for what we should do if the shooter is also an arsonist.
I think maybe the simulation thing is not functioning to my or anyone elses’ benefit.
I’m inclined to agree with you. I think it’s all just emergent phenomena that self-substantiate from a relatively simple mathematical concept that exists on its own, and happen to resemble a Philip K. Dick novel.
Sandy Hook is a real event, regardless of what Alex Jones thinks. That’s as real a Hell as anything shoved down my throat in Sunday school. Belief in crisis actors is its own kind of blasphemy, unrelated to one’s opinion about the cult of Jesus.
Why would they choose Musk of all people as our Morpheus in this situation? If I got an email from him about living in a simulation I’d first assume it’s someone trying to scam me and if I could somehow be sure it was actually him I’d assume he was having a psychotic break and I wouldn’t be surprised.
Wait. You are e-mailed the proof? So, by definition at least two people know about the simulation (assuming you’re not hacked, snooped on etc). Therefore, by the very logic of the article, the cat is well and truly out of the bag so the simulation is instantly shut down or it’s still running as the place information is irrelevant.
TL;DR- If you got the message at least two people know so it doesn’t matter.
Alex Jones is simulating a reality in which Sandy Hook didn’t happen.
See, this is the thing that Elon Musk doesn’t get. Musk is worried there is a simulation and there is some reality that Musk doesn’t see. That reality is people who are the same kind of thing as Musk, with the same kind of minds and experiences dying frozen underneath an overpass because of Musk’s choices. And there is an elaborate simulation created to prevent Musk from being exposed to that idea. It wasn’t created by extrareal entities, it is created by people Musk pays to create it, and a culture that is complicit with the idea that protecting the emotions of billionaires is our number on priority.
Elon Musk doesn’t need to convince me there is a simulation,
But on the actual topic of the article, the idea that we are actually in a simulation run by extrareal entities, the idea that we have some idea of what those entities are like or what their motivations are is ***absurd***.
[O]utside the ordered universe [is] that amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity—the boundless daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud, and who gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes.
Go write a philosophy piece on what to do if we discover we are just a mad dream of Azathoth. Because that’s probably a hell of a lot closer to reality.
You are a ghost piloting a meat covered skeleton on a spinning rock racing through space in a cluster of truly enormous burning balls of hydrogen scattered across an unimaginable expanse of space.
Probably not worth worrying about the small stuff, is it?
The paradox that Elon Musk is stuck in, is that money distorts information kind of like how gravity distorts light. He can’t see past the veil of his own wealth. The “best” he can do, is convince people without his money, that he’s wealthy for a good reason. That’s a reality I can’t seem to swallow.
Given the idea is outside the scope of the entire universe It’s all kinda moot. This is just a new version of “Is the universe just a dream” line of high as fuck philosophy the kinda only matters if the people dreaming or running the simulation make themselves known. I guess we can try to hack some piece of legacy virtual hardware on our hypervisor but I guess we do that at our peril.
Hey! does this mean P ≠ NP due to hypervisor limitations?
And I delete that shit without opening it then scan my device for malware.
There’s too much ‘mundane’ in my reality for it to be a sim… but even if it somehow was, there’s no way in hell I’d ever trust the word of fucking Elon Musk.
