What are the odds that we are all in a simulation?
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well, you're asking this question in a platform which has the sole purpose of presenting a digital representation of social interaction, so I'd say pretty fucking high.
You don't need the matrix plugging needles into the back of people's heads for the world to be a simulation. smartphones and computer screens are more than enough.
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Well, until we see people randomly floating or chunks of the world disappearing, the answer will probably remain "who knows"
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50%. We are or we aren't.
50?! You're crazy! 0.5 at best!
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I don't know.
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Counter question; would it make any difference?
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99.999999999999999999999999999%
(Rounded)
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Belief in a simulation implies intelligent design of some sort, so this is, in my opinion, just a 21st century way of asking the age old question, does God exist?
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There is no sensible definition of probability that makes that question answerable.
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Counter question; would it make any difference?
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Ignorance is bliss!
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Probably about the same as for whether a god exists.
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Greater than zero.
You wanna tweak your melon a bit? Look up "Last Thursdayism." It's a thing — due to the way short term and long term memory work, the theory goes that anything before "last Thursday" is a lie. It's an arbitrary day of the week. The movie Dark City played off of this, when the — I forget what they were called — did their tuning and rearranged things and swapped peoples' memories around.
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The scary thing is you just need to simulate a single brain (yours or mine). Everything else is just loaded on the fly. Like in a game. That's hard but probably not impossible. As soon as we are technically able to do something like this, chances are high that we, or I, live in a simulation.
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Here are a bunch of arguments pro and contra:
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Counter question; would it make any difference?
That's the point - it wouldn't. People seem to expect that things would be different or meaningless if we did but I've never understood that logic. Even if we do live in the base reality it could just as well be a simulation and nothing would need to change.
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Belief in a simulation implies intelligent design of some sort, so this is, in my opinion, just a 21st century way of asking the age old question, does God exist?
God is a loaded term though. Yes there would be a creator but it could be a completely passive observer.
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Well, until we see people randomly floating or chunks of the world disappearing, the answer will probably remain "who knows"
People floating would go against the laws of physics of this simulation.
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50?! You're crazy! 0.5 at best!
Nah, at least 0,50
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Ignorance is bliss!
Just connect me to my reality.
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That's the point - it wouldn't. People seem to expect that things would be different or meaningless if we did but I've never understood that logic. Even if we do live in the base reality it could just as well be a simulation and nothing would need to change.
Exactly. Even if it was definitely proven that this is all a simulation, there is exactly zero chance humans could ever break out of it or hack or exploit or even begin to understand the machine the simulation is running on. We have still not even figured out the rules for our universe and understanding what the real universe where this is a simulation is way beyond the scope of human understanding. We could not affect it in any meaningful way except maybe some laboratory tests or cause some hideous corruption. Yet we think and feel and experience living in the only way we know. Hence, I'd argue it would not matter.
