Unless there is additional context like how to communicate with the outside world there’s not really reason to change anything. Even if the life I love and the bonds I’ve created are “fake” it doesn’t mean they’re not worthwhile.
But if it’s something like the controllers of the simulation are actively making things worse or refusing to improve things then that’s different.
I would just keep living my life, it’s not actionable information for me.
Agree. It’s a lot like the ‘free will’ exercise to me-- an interesting thought experiment that AFAIK doesn’t help too much in the actual living of a life.
Also, I propose that we arguably already know that we’re living in a simulation, and it makes no real difference. I.e., we’ve identified the wave-vs-particle effect, the four forces of the universe, a bunch of physical and chemical laws, and are continually refining our understanding of it all, via science, and possibly even metaphysics.
But far as we know, it’s all just building blocks, dimensions, and laws so to speak. A super-amazing simulation as it were. What’s wrong with that?
Does it mean anything in itself to be in a simulation?
I don’t really see how that would change anything in my day to day life.
Try to hack it. Would love some infinite resource bug.
They say I can do magic, what I can do is anything.
Fuzzing inputs until I find a buffer overflow.
Wouldn’t make a difference. The only part that could change my actions would be what hapoens obce it ends. But simulation or no I’m stuck here for however many years and have to make the best of it.
um. look to reprogram this shit.
L33t haxxors
Make coffee.
Jack off and do fuck all???
Doesn’t change much, at least I know I only live once and afterlife is fake
Being in a simulation would increase the viability of an afterlife. Your program could just be migrated to another “game”
Umm what happens to the NPC Sims in your world
Uhhhh goneeee
Now imagine it being as in-depth as earth
Buddy we are the NPCs
No, I’m the main character! I’ve got colorful, spiky hair to prove it!
Umm what happens to the NPC Sims in your world
They turn into ghosts, so they must still be stored somewhere.
It basically comes down to how early is our simulation? Was it refined technology at the time or early pioneering work?
The Thirteenth Floor is a truly under appreciated gem of a movie, FYI
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.
Have you heard of Roko’s Basilisk? Basically, if we were in a simulation, it’s best not to acknowledge it
Too late.
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.
Then start to think about how everyone else is going to react and how I’ll need to plan for that.
yeah that’s an interesting consideration.
I think that one of two items would be pretty prominent for humanity:
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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.
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Second, figuring out how to “break out”, how to influence the world in which the simulation is being run.
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Commit 34 felonies and run for president
You’re saying Trump is the ‘YOLOoooo’ president?
