If our reality is a simulation then from our POV simulations ARE reality

First week of philosophy?

Third trimester

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Please fix this sentence. It makes no sense.

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It’s called a text box max length property in ASP.NET retard

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Swing and a miss

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Ming and a Swiss

Something wild to ponder...

We are living in a simulation and not in “the” original timeline

We are about to reach an inflection point in the simulated timeline where virtual timelines can be created with advanced AI development (simulating how it actually happened in the original timeline). This will allow simulations within simulations (think Inception embedded in the Matrix). These events are just the original programmers winking at us (because they literally know everything...)

Unlike the Matrix, these simulations can be opportunities for those on the original timeline to have an experience (think Westworld except that if you agree to the simulation, the stipulation is that you have no knowledge of this agreement while in the simulation). You stay in the simulation until you “die” (Vanilla Sky).

Or, the simulation is a test/game of sorts...(using the same rules above )

Alternatively, these simulations may be what it feels like to be in deep stasis while traveling the galaxy (assuming we may be hundred of thousands of years in the future ahead of this timeline).

Paper from an Oxford scholar:


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ARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION? BY NICK BOSTROM [Published in Philosophical Quarterly (2003) Vol. 53, No. 211, pp. 243-255. (First version: 2001" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer">

This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation. A number of other consequences of this result are also discussed.

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A technologically mature “posthuman” civilization would have enormous computing power. Based on this empirical fact, the simulation argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) The fraction of human- level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero; (2) The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor- simulations is very close to zero; (3) The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one. If (1) is true, then we will almost certainly go extinct before reaching posthumanity. If (2) is true, then there must be a strong convergence among the courses of advanced civilizations so that virtually none contains any relatively wealthy individuals who desire to run ancestor-simulations and are free to do so. If (3) is true, then we almost certainly live in a simulation. In the dark forest of our current ignorance, it seems sensible to apportion one’s credence roughly evenly between (1), (2), and (3). Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation

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From The Matrix

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Saw the title to this thread and thought to myself, "This sounds like something theunknownknight would post". I was right...

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Were you right? Or just acting as programmed??????

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Alternatively, these simulations may be what it feels like to be in deep stasis while traveling the galaxy (assuming we may be hundred of thousands of years in the future ahead of this timeline).

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Damn. I hope it's this.