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And here I was waiting to get unplugged, or maybe finding a Nokia phone that received a call.

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I can't help but notice everyone going through psychosis saying reality is a simulation also says "and all evidence is starting to point to it".

Yet, they never ever discuss any of this "evidence" or related "research".

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

we are a speck of excrement on the buttplug of reality during a gay porno film.

[–] RedWheelbarrow@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

What about a simulation inside a simulation........!!!

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you have not already done so watch the animated series Pantheon (2022). Worth the watch and goes deep into simulation and concesiones.

[–] Nima@leminal.space 4 points 4 days ago

dude yes! I recommend this series all the time.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago
[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I will prove that we're not in a simulation:

If we're in a simulation then whoever is operating it would not want us to know if we're in a simulation or not.

Anyone trying to check if we're in a simulation or not would be stopped by the operator.

I wasn't stopped by an operator hence there is no operator and we're not in a simulation.

Q.E.D.

[–] svcg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Um, why? As a general rule, the point of running a simulation is to find out what happens under some circumstances where you don't know what happens. If you're imposing conditions like that, then you aren't so much running a simulation as you are running some kind of procedural generation.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 3 days ago

I'm kidding but since we're just playing I would say:

Let's imagine you want to know who will win the next election. You create detailed simulation of the entire population and run it until the voting day to see how they will vote. If the simulated population realized they are in a simulation the will obviously start behaving in a different way then the real population thus making your simulation useless.

So I would say unless the goal of the simulation is to see how fast will it realize it's just a simulation you would try to avoid them finding out.

Then again, checking if people will realize they are in a simulation is a valid reason to simulate them so it's possible we're in a simulation that is supposed to find out it's a simulation...

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