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>> We're living in many simulations now I mean it's completely possible we are living in a simulation, but the idea that there can be infinite nested simulatio
by baja_blast 6y ago
>> We're living in many simulations now
I mean it's completely possible we are living in a simulation, but the idea that there can be infinite nested simulations or that we could simulate our own universe seems unlikely. I mean think about a program that runs a copy of that program recursively, you'd run out of memory. Now I am aware that some argue that we could be ancestor simulations which would only render what we same like in gaming, BUT! that would mean they would have to simulate billions of minds and a world with physics and fidelity as convincing as our own which would take an insane amount of energy that I can't imagine anyone wanting to do.
If we are a simulation then reality is much more complex than our own.
- anu7df 6y agoI never really understood such arguments. Not being combative, just not sure. If we are in a simulation, then why do things like energy matter? Who says those are meaningful in the "real" world. We can only perceive the simulation, so our idea of physics is whatever the simulation creator thought would be nice, no? May be there are things we can infer from this "simulation" about the world one abstraction above, but in nested simulations that would be arbitrary as well.
- vlovich123 6y agoWasn’t there a mathematical proof that if we are in a simulation then the universe stimulating ours must be drastically different? [0] https://www.seeker.com/tech/physicists-prove-that-reality-is-not-a-computer-simulation https://www.seeker.com/tech/physicists-prove-that-reality-is...
- dnprock 6y agoBuddhist philosophy can help. It states that our suffering is connected to our desire. You can think of our desire as simulations. Things we want to have. And our suffering is reality. We can have endless amount of desire. With the help of technology, we can create a lot of things that we want. But at some point, suffering will show up. It's a type of memory overload situation. The mind and the body are connected. Our personal suffering ends when we die. But the karma of our actions may continue.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoMaybe not so fast as you may think, if something like https://github.com/dolohow/uksm https://github.com/dolohow/uksm would be applied, not to mention architectures very different from the technological substrates we are used to. edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_same-page_merging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_same-page_merging edit: The mentioned security risks in the wikipedia-article could also explain what we call supernatural phenoma, by partially leaking code and/or data between different virtual instances(universes), thereby fucking with our simulated minds :-)