Are we living in a simulation?

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i agree it’s an unfortunate development in the etymology of the word though

flopson, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link

I thought the timing of the Good Place being right at a point when a number of things were obviously going in completely the wrong direction was oddly fitting.

Might just be an indication that life was following a similar pattern.

That was an interesting take on a simulation of a different set up.
I thought the usual take was about brains in vats which normally tied in with a famous thought experiment we studied in Philosophy but I'm going blank on who the philosopher writing it was.
Like would you know if things were real or if you were being fed false information passing itself off as a form of reality.
So if everything was false and you still did stupid things like stubbing your toes and knocking fragile objects flying and forgetting things how would you tell? & if you were a Buddhist and everything is false anyway would you mind.

Stevolende, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 02:25 (three years ago) link

three years pass...

i feel that if this were a simulation then that guy that plays maverick in those movies, you know about whom i'm talking, given that his unnamed and therefore unactionable affiliated religious organization's super-duper powers center is trying way hard to prove a point, that guy would have developed the ability to fly like neo and bend the artificial construct that we think of as time and space, and he'd already be telling us all about it. that ain't happened. also i believe keanu reeves of all of us would actually innately have this predisposition to superpowers if such actually existed, but keanu being keanu, he'd think it immodest to show off thusly and so we'll never know. keanu can probably fly irl, but he's just as happy taking a bus, because someone on that bus might need his help like in that one movie where he takes that bus.

idk where i'm going with this but it's more that likely about how we're blessed to live in the era of keanu than about simulation theory.

slugbuggy, Saturday, 11 May 2024 11:41 (one week ago) link

cyberpunk2077 players are blessed and cursed to live in both

Philip Nunez, Saturday, 11 May 2024 13:31 (one week ago) link

who the fuck runs the simulation then?

Ste, Saturday, 11 May 2024 17:32 (one week ago) link

What is their purpose of existence?

Ste, Saturday, 11 May 2024 17:32 (one week ago) link

It's run by turtles. Who learned to program. Their purpose is to move fast (fast for turtles, that is) and break things.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 11 May 2024 17:50 (one week ago) link

why they making me work this shit job, fucking turtle shit heads

Ste, Saturday, 11 May 2024 17:52 (one week ago) link

Did you miss the "break things" part?

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 11 May 2024 17:56 (one week ago) link

oh yeah, sorry

Ste, Saturday, 11 May 2024 18:53 (one week ago) link

It's run by turtles. Who learned to program. Their purpose is to move fast (fast for turtles, that is) and break things.

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i feel that if this were a simulation then that guy that plays maverick in those movies, you know about whom i'm talking, given that his unnamed and therefore unactionable affiliated religious organization's super-duper powers center is trying way hard to prove a point, that guy would have developed the ability to fly like neo and bend the artificial construct that we think of as time and space, and he'd already be telling us all about it. that ain't happened. also i believe keanu reeves of all of us would actually innately have this predisposition to superpowers if such actually existed, but keanu being keanu, he'd think it immodest to show off thusly and so we'll never know. keanu can probably fly irl, but he's just as happy taking a bus, because someone on that bus might need his help like in that one movie where he takes that bus.

idk where i'm going with this but it's more that likely about how we're blessed to live in the era of keanu than about simulation theory.

― slugbuggy

i have good news slugbuggy there is a way to develop the ability to fly like neo

it's called estrogen

(if people are going to call me a social contagion i'm going to fucking _earn_ the title)

Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 May 2024 19:02 (one week ago) link


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