The odds that we live in a simulation are close to 1

whoever is controlling my player must be bored as hell

Is that why I masturbate so much?

Have you ever stood and stared at it, marveled at it's beauty, it's genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered. Where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost.

Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world would dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization.

I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is of course what this is all about.

Evolution, Morpheus, evolution, like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.

I'd like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not.

You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern.

Do you know what it is?

A virus.

Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet. You are a plague, and we are the cure.

Can you hear me, Morpheus? I'm going to be honest with you. I hate this place, this zoo, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it.

I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink. And every time I do I feel I have somehow been infected by it. It's repulsive, isn't it?

I must get out of here.

I must get free.

and in this mind is the key, my key.

Once Zion is destroyed there is no need for me to be here, don't you understand?

I need the codes.

I have to get inside Zion, and you have to tell me how.

You're going to tell me

or you're going to die.

How do I make simulation not be so dumb

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it seems likely that at some point we will be able to create simulations containing conscious beings, however long it may take to get to that point.

A civilization capable of producing such simulations will be able to create far more simulated conscious beings than "real" conscious beings, and those simulated beings could then create their own simulations, and so on.

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It seems like you that is quite a leap to this

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Therefore, the odds that we live in a simulation are close to 1.

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I think it is more difficult to debate hot, soft, facts since there isn't any evidence of anyone doing this so there is no precedent to follow. Hot soft facts are hard to come by.

These type of threads usually let me know that it's time to call it a day at work and go home

Your weed is too potent for you

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What does this mean?

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Technological singularity

Basically, Artificial General Intelligence will make research occur so fast that groundbreaking discoveries will be happening constantly.

I'm told that if you say aloud, "I know that I'm living in a simulation, and I want out!", they have to let you go.