Originally posted by Kvothe27 Wait, which of the two is really you? I'll admit, when I heard agerm talk on stream he sounded nothing like Bill Belichick, which was strange...
I'm an AI, created to give responses to your queries in a way which would convince you that the world you live in is real, just like everyone else.
Originally posted by Raid I'm an AI, created to give responses to your queries in a way which would convince you that the world you live in is real, just like everyone else.
No. If that was true, you wouldn't have published that Harvard study about how the universe is almost certainly a simulation, created the Matrix or the Truman Show to sow doubt in my mind, or said what you just said. If your goal was to convince me this is real you would have made it impossible to think otherwise. Thus, your actual goal is clearly not to convince me the world is real, but rather to convince me the world is fake.
Originally posted by Kvothe27 No. If that was true, you wouldn't have published that Harvard study about how the universe is almost certainly a simulation, created the Matrix or the Truman Show to sow doubt in my mind, or said what you just said. If your goal was to convince me this is real you would have made it impossible to think otherwise. Thus, your actual goal is clearly not to convince me the world is real, but rather to convince me the world is fake.
That paper is often misconstrued, most popularly by Elon and Tyson.
Essentially what it says is that:
IF a society had the ability to simulate to an extent that people couldn't recognize the difference - big if,
IF that simulation was powerful enough to create multiple layers of simulation within itself and was sticking people into simulations within the simulation - bigger if
IF that society was also powerful enough to dominate the entire galaxy - massive if
And If that society had some reason to be sticking people into the simulation, and again the people in the simulations had a reason to stick others into their simulations and so on and so on - supermassive If.
And IF those layered societies didn't lose interest in sticking everyone in simulations that can have multiple layers within them. - maybe they have enough? Lots of time and man hours involved probably. Maybe one layer decides to prevent people inside theirs from simulating other universes within it?
That once you get a bunch of simulations layered on top of eachother, then the chances of being in the prime universe are not likely.
Which means, that if all the stars align and there ARE perchance overlords who control the universe and have sufficient technology that it's highly unlikely that we would not be living in a simulation... which is assuming a crap ton, or even that they would have a reason to stick you in a simulation. It was a thought experiment more than anything.