It's genuinely baffling to me that these people who are outright obsessed with simulation theory just straight-up have no idea what it's suggesting or how it would work.
If we're being simulated, it's a simulation that's running on a subatomic granularity with a strict material causality all the way up to the macro world. To dispute this fact is to go against all of modern scientific consensus, the very idea of science itself.
There is no "game level" that is running "on top of this" where some people are magically "more conscious" than "NPCs". It is not just a nonsensical statement, it has so little to do with simulation theory that you might as well be saying "the theory of universal gravitation proves love is real".
Rationalists love nothing more than not understanding something and running with it to the most offensive dehumanizing bootlicking ends.
If we’re being simulated, it’s a simulation that’s running on a subatomic granularity with a strict material causality all the way up to the macro world. To dispute this fact is to go against all of modern scientific consensus, the very idea of science itself.
Exactly! The inevitable conclusion of anyone with enough critical thinking and scientific rigour is that "If this is a simulation, it's operating on a level so advanced that it's functionally no different from reality, so for all intents and purposes I might as well treat it as such." Pascal's Wager, but for right now rather than some distant afterlife.
It's genuinely baffling to me that these people who are outright obsessed with simulation theory just straight-up have no idea what it's suggesting or how it would work.
If we're being simulated, it's a simulation that's running on a subatomic granularity with a strict material causality all the way up to the macro world. To dispute this fact is to go against all of modern scientific consensus, the very idea of science itself.
There is no "game level" that is running "on top of this" where some people are magically "more conscious" than "NPCs". It is not just a nonsensical statement, it has so little to do with simulation theory that you might as well be saying "the theory of universal gravitation proves love is real".
Rationalists love nothing more than not understanding something and running with it to the most offensive dehumanizing bootlicking ends.
Exactly! The inevitable conclusion of anyone with enough critical thinking and scientific rigour is that "If this is a simulation, it's operating on a level so advanced that it's functionally no different from reality, so for all intents and purposes I might as well treat it as such." Pascal's Wager, but for right now rather than some distant afterlife.
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This has historically been a fairly common elitist narrative throughout history; the lesser people have simpler inner lives and less complex thoughts
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I remember that. It was pretty gross and fawning.