Eh. I’m still driven by pleasure and pain, so nothing really changes.

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It wouldn’t change anything because this is the reality we have. I wouldn’t suddenly become immoral because there are still consequences and even if some people or even everyone but me is not real, they will still react as though they have emotions. If I hurt my wife, she would still cry. If I did something bad enough, she might divorce me. Take half my stuff. Lose some access to my kids. Those are all real consequences even if the people are simulated.

Maybe I’d be less concerned for people not immediately around me because any good simulation wouldn’t actually sim everything out of range, so there wouldn’t e.g. be Palestinians starving to death if no one “real” was there.

I suppose it would re-open the question of existence beyond death, but I don’t think I would ultimately come to a different conclusion—there is no reason to think this experience would continue past my own death, and if I were memory-wiped and re-inserted it wouldn’t really be the same me anyway, right?

If it were matrix-style there is a reality out there to experience if I can leave the simulation, I’d have some hard thinking to do about whether that would be likely to be a better existence than the one I’m having here.

I think a lot of unhappy people would exit the simulation… :)

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It would be an interesting fact, and I’d want to study the hell out of it, but it doesn’t really change anything if nothing can be done about it.

If I can’t determine what lies beyond the veil, then nothing much changes, does it?

If I’m presented with a beautiful utopia, or just another world that’s not a hellscape that lies beyond our simulation, and then am thrust back into the simulation, then I guess I’d be less afraid of death. If I’m presented with a hellscape, then I guess I’m more scared of death.

However, if I could somehow be convinced that this is all just a simulation, but can’t see what lies beyond in what is actual reality…then that’s just like…knowing there’s an afterlife, but not knowing if it’s better or worse than this plane of existence, so it’s practically worthless information.

Nothing changes does it?

Also I’m not sure if I’d me more or less scared of death. If this is a simulation, to escape reality, I can’t imagine how terrible reality would really be.

I’d give the sky the finger and then spend too much time wondering what perspective we’re even being viewed from.

I’d also probably start a diary, except every entry would be: “Fuck you people for creating a world like this. Do you enjoy the suffering of countless people? Turns out God really is a prick.”

Noclipping into the Backrooms.

Commit 34 felonies and run for president

Remember that I’m a nihilist and shrug my shoulders.

Then start to think about how everyone else is going to react and how I’ll need to plan for that.

I think that one of two items would be pretty prominent for humanity:

• First, if we know not just that it is a simulation but that this brings some knowledge of how the simulation’s physics work that differs from our previous non-simulation understanding, how to make use of those properties.

• Second, figuring out how to “break out”, how to influence the world in which the simulation is being run.

Simulation meaning the universe and everything in it is simulated, including myself? Or like I’m jacked into a simulation Matrix-style?

The former means there’s nothing to do about it. The latter means what I do here is largely irrelevant.

Big difference in response.