Simulation Hypothesis

[PDH]

Actually, if the civilization is powerful enough to create a simulation of everything and run it, I doubt that hardware would be a limitation.  The limitation is somehow simulating everything...THAT is what makes it goofy.

[Neil]

Actually, if the civilization is powerful enough to create a simulation of everything and run it, I doubt that hardware would be a limitation.  The limitation is somehow simulating everything...THAT is what makes it goofy.

It might be feasible, but once you start nesting them, your requirements start increasing by orders of magnitude.  Of course, if you cheat and treat most objects as solid, then you can save yourself some processing power, but that doesn't describe the world we live in.

Besides, we can be pretty wasteful with processing power, but not on that scale.

[DontSayBanana]

Interesting. I've seen a similar theory running around about dropping matter into a black hole in a near-laboratory environment creating microuniverses, with the net result that we end up with nested sub-universes and microorganisms, rather than nested simulations and simulacra.

[The Brain]

[Siege]

I've been talking about this for years.


Are You Living In A Computer Simulation?  http://www.simulation-argument.com/classic.html

[Neil]

I've been talking about this for years.


Are You Living In A Computer Simulation?  http://www.simulation-argument.com/classic.html

And you're wrong to do so.  You just use that as an excuse to escape the moral responsibility for your crimes.

[Siege]

Where's the "Who Gives A Fuck" answer?

If you can create a simulated reality that is absolutely indistinguishable from reality it is, well, real.

Of course. It changes nothing.

Also, it doesn't have to be indistinguishable from reality, because the sims don't have that reference point, since they/we have always lived in a similation.

[Siege]

I've been talking about this for years.


Are You Living In A Computer Simulation?  http://www.simulation-argument.com/classic.html

And you're wrong to do so.  You just use that as an excuse to escape the moral responsibility for your crimes.

What crimes?

My councious is completely clean.
My targets have all been terrorists, terrorists in the making, or terrorist factories.
I have no moral conflict.

Its funny how you always think that you can read my subcouncious.

[Neil]

I've been talking about this for years.


Are You Living In A Computer Simulation?  http://www.simulation-argument.com/classic.html

And you're wrong to do so.  You just use that as an excuse to escape the moral responsibility for your crimes.

What crimes?

My councious is completely clean.
My targets have all been terrorists, terrorists in the making, or terrorist factories.
I have no moral conflict.

Its funny how you always think that you can read my subcouncious.

Your crimes are rape and murder.

Being a religious nutjob isn't a crime, although it should be.

[Caliga]

LOL is Seige a: kill switch!

[Caliga]

Your crimes are rape and murder.

Being a religious nutjob isn't a crime, although it should be.

Perhaps in his religious zealotry he recognizes that this simulation has an operator, something that you've failed to do? :zen:

[Neil]

Your crimes are rape and murder.

Being a religious nutjob isn't a crime, although it should be.

Perhaps in his religious zealotry he recognizes that this simulation has an operator, something that you've failed to do? :zen:

There is no simulation.

Moreover, why would an operator of a simulation be worthy of worship in any event?

[Caliga]

There is no simulation.

[Caliga]

Moreover, why would an operator of a simulation be worthy of worship in any event?

Who says he would be?  Maybe he never asked to be worshipped, but some people somehow intuited his existence and do it anyway, and he finds it amusing/flattering so he does nothing to intervene.

[Neil]

Thank you for proving my point:  Homos who have watched the Matrix too many times.