Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50
www.scientificamerican.com
Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology

also, this article is dumb, lol. obviously we don't live in a simulation because that's a fucking stupid take.

  • dom [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Of course the chances are 50/50. We either are or we aren't.

  • thefunkycomitatus [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Let's say we do. What the fuck are we going to do about it? You can't break out of a simulation. If you start messing the "code" and cause an exception or error, you could crash the simulation and kill us all. So thinking you can reprogram it to give everyone super powers is stupid. Being in a simulation doesn't help anything. It's about as good as saying god did it. God created the universe. So who created god? Same thing. What about the universe the creators of the simulation live in? Who created the creators? You haven't actually made any progress. We would just inherit whatever existential problems they have.

  • longhorn617 [any]
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    4 years ago

    The algorithm that governs this simulation? Astrology.