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Hmm maybe, but also what about the argument that the most likely designers of a simulation such as ours would be those who inhabit a universe like ours? A good
by randomsearch 5y ago
Hmm maybe, but also what about the argument that the most likely designers of a simulation such as ours would be those who inhabit a universe like ours? A good reason to simulate a universe would be to ask “what if?” questions, which would seem of greatest utility to those living in similar universes…
- htrp 5y agoOr our universe may literally be a game of dwarf fortress running on commodity hardware. These are all similar to the epistemological arguments of unknowable truths. Interesting but ultimately fruitless.
- ineedasername 5y ago>dwarf fortress Ridiculous! It's much more probable that our universe is a game of Factorio being played by an idiot.
- JackFr 5y ago> what about the argument that the most likely designers of a simulation such as ours would be those who inhabit a universe like ours? So your argument is Genesis 1:27? "So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them" Big, if true.
- ineedasername 5y agoTake a look at abstract art. There's no requirement that a creation resemble the creators in any recognizable fashion. If we're a simulation, we have no idea if we're the creator's equivalent of cave paintings, baroque, modern, anime, surreal, noir, dadaist, cubism, any if it.
- randomsearch 5y agoWell obviously we don’t know. But it seems far more likely that we are being simulated by “ourselves” than by some other entity that does not have our problems or face similar issues to us.