People here are being a bit unfair with the simulation theory thing. I think it's a fun thought experiment. But what I think is the most interesting is that it is obviously an eschatology. It's amazing how techbros on an obscure BBS like less wrong will use their incredibly big rational secular brains and end up brewing a return to christianity but with cyber jesus, for what is a simulation if not the world in the back of a turtle. And what holds this turtle if not another, bigger turtle underneath.
I dunno, watching people think their way into existing eschatologies does make me wonder how inescapable religion actually is, consider that rokos basilisk operates in exactly the same way the christian god judges man (not fighting for god in every aspect for your life nets you punishment because God is the ultimate Good and so on).
Ultimately I don't think it matters, the universe itself will always remain fundamentally unknowable. The more we discover and model, the more obvious and inescapable the rift of the unknowable will become like a horizon we can never quite reach. Thus why I think the universe can't be modelled and recreated as some sort of stochastic process, it can't be known. Also why we will never escape eternal returns to religion, funny how the very inception of the simulation theory is due to its own impossibility.
People here are being a bit unfair with the simulation theory thing. I think it's a fun thought experiment. But what I think is the most interesting is that it is obviously an eschatology. It's amazing how techbros on an obscure BBS like less wrong will use their incredibly big rational secular brains and end up brewing a return to christianity but with cyber jesus, for what is a simulation if not the world in the back of a turtle. And what holds this turtle if not another, bigger turtle underneath.
I dunno, watching people think their way into existing eschatologies does make me wonder how inescapable religion actually is, consider that rokos basilisk operates in exactly the same way the christian god judges man (not fighting for god in every aspect for your life nets you punishment because God is the ultimate Good and so on).
Ultimately I don't think it matters, the universe itself will always remain fundamentally unknowable. The more we discover and model, the more obvious and inescapable the rift of the unknowable will become like a horizon we can never quite reach. Thus why I think the universe can't be modelled and recreated as some sort of stochastic process, it can't be known. Also why we will never escape eternal returns to religion, funny how the very inception of the simulation theory is due to its own impossibility.