Well, obviously. You should have used idclip.
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Elon could use some Botox and an eyelift. How you gonna front a multibillion dollar endeavor looking like ET?
I think you have to stare at goats first.
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With 7 billion simulated pairs of eyes, perhaps. In fact, the simulation is running for you alone.
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? It already is a perfect simulation of itself, tautologically. I suspect you mean something else. There are information theoretic inequalities that you might be able use to make related arguments. Something along the lines of not being able to simulate a system with high Kolmogorov complexity with a system of low Kolmogorov complexity.
Personally, Iām not convinced that āthe universe is a simulationā is even a meaningful statement let alone a testable one.
That means that somebody one of us knows isnāt really from our reality, they are just here playing the game and we donāt know about it. So when you spot them, you have to try to get them to fess up.
Right - Donaldā¦?
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I often theorised as a youth that it was possible I was the only entity that existed, but that after eternal isolation I had hallucinated other entities into existence because the isolation of a single entity was too much to bear. It is kind of psychoticā¦
Sometimes I amuse myself with the notion that this is the nature of God.
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My opinion is that weāre not in a simulation, for a very simple reason: I have Level one CEV.
If weāre in a simulation, itās probably simulating a small section of the universe, and just simulating the parts people can see. Anything else would be a waste of computing power.
If thatās the case, why would you build a consciousness that routinely ignores superfluous data, and an optic nerve that is sensitive to CEV, and then not have the former make the latter go away? Itād be so much easier, if thereās this stuff, to design the people either to ignore the static, or to see it and use it to explain any imperfections in the visual field, but not to both see it and not see it.
That is, of course, discounting the possibility that the entire universe is a simulation on such a low level that itās indistinguishable from being a universe. in which case, who cares?
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Sometimes it feels as if mainstream American culture and political discourse are a simulation of a natural spontaneous national culture, though I suppose thereās still still some degree of ādropping outā to more real and spontaneous sub-societies, local or online. Like boingboing.net!
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Uriel had better make sure there isnāt a buffer-overflow bug this run.
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Thatās pretty much exactly what the Advaita Vedanta school of Hinduism thinks.
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Well, if you consider each thing to be an ipso facto simulation of itself, then it certainly is a meaningless statementā¦
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Sometimes, when Iām tired and close my eyes, I see a stream of faces. Just face after face at varying distances and angles each quickly morphing or fading into the next. It looks pretty damn neat, actually.
Iāve looked it up and just found a bunch of woo-ey bullshit about third eyes and ghosts, etc. Obviously itās more related to sensory deprivation and pareidolia, but it definitely is a real, strong phenomenon, even if most of the reports are attached to dubious explanations.
The really weird thing about it is that Iāve got moderate face blindness. I fail to recognize people or mix them up all the time when they change their hair or jewelry or clothing style or I see them outside a usual context.
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Then Elon should direct his efforts into hacking the simulator, rather than working on road, space and underground transportation. By his argument, teleportation should be just a code change away.
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But the simulator might be in a universe much greater in extent than ours. It could have more dimensions for example. Our entire universe, simulated in full, could be a game run on some kidās phone.
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Until Iām able to edit values in my avatar to give myself normal vision, or my mom her heart in good working order, or my twin rebuilt so his body isnāt wasted away to nothing, or my (adopted) sister to undo the damage her biological parents didā¦
I donāt give two shits.
At the very least give us the fāing rosebud cheat.
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Iām currently reading Conor Kostickās YA trilogy Epic, Saga, and Edda.
They have a similar theme - artificial universes/games which overlap each other and the āreal worldā. Some of the constructs are strictly non-sentient NPCs. Others āthink theyāre peopleā. Some of those can interface with the āreal worldā via robot bodies.
Quite liking them, nothing groundshaking but deftly handled and fun. Recommended for Happy Mutants or their (pre-)teens.
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That explains why all the smart ones have glasses, they needed to be kept in checkā¦
Again, though, if itās simulated in that kind of detail: who cares? If the fundamental unit of the universe is an electric signal in a 15-dimensional computer, or if itās the vibration of a 11-dimensional string (not that Iām a proponent of string theory), at that point, what difference does it make?
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One in Billions Chance = Probably
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