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Ok. But then: - what is the question? - what is the answer?

• rgrs 4y ago
  yes
• ben_w 4y ago
  > what is the question? Is the simulation hypotheses more or less plausible? > what is the answer? Supren supren, suben suben, maldekstra dekstra, maldekstra dekstra, bee aye komenco. ;)
  • porkphish 4y ago
    Magic 2.0?
    • ben_w 4y ago
      Jes, kvankam mi ankau povis paroli Esperanto antaue legi la libro (or rather, listened; audiobook), so when that line happened I recognised it even faster than Martin did.
  • danbruc 4y ago
    Is the simulation hypotheses more or less plausible? It has always been implausible and it will most likely stay that way.
    • mckirk 4y ago
      How so?
    • ClumsyPilot 4y ago
      When was this conclusion reached, i totally mised the announcement
      • danbruc 4y ago
        Right when it was formulated. In the best case - assuming the simulation hypothesis does not have any flaws, i.e. there are no hidden assumptions or logical flaws or something along that line - the simulation hypothesis provides a trilemma, i.e. one of three things has to be true. That we are living in a simulation is only one of them and arguably the most implausible one. But let us just assume we continue exploring and inspecting our universe and one day we discover that space is quantized into small cubes [1] with a side length of a thousand Planck lengths just like a voxel game world. Now what? Are we living in a simulation? Is this proof? Actually, you probably would not be any wiser. How would you know whether the universe just works with small voxels and we wrongly assumed all the time that space is continuous or whether this universe is a simulation using voxels and somewhere out there is the real universe with continuous space? You do not know what a real universe looks like, you do not know what a simulated universe looks like, you just know what our universe looks like. How will you ever tell what kind our universe is? [1] This is purely hypothetical, I do not care about how physically realistic this is, what kind of problems with preferred reference frames or what not this might cause, let us just pretend it makes sense.
        • mrwnmonm 4y ago
          The simulation hypothesis is so cute.
        • ClumsyPilot 4y ago
          Your post is not putting forward any argument about Plausability or Probability, you are just saying that the theory is not falsifiable / we will never fins out, like argument about God. The argument about probability goes something like this: there is only one real universe, where an advanced species like us would evolve. Eventually we would create multiple simulations. If advanced specicies evolves in a simulation, they create their own simulation. Therefore there is only one real universe, but many simulations, so chances are we are in a simulation. It also could explain why we are alone in the universe. Holographic theory suggest that the whole universe coupd be a hologram around a 4D black hole or something, so also appears to hint in this direction
    • lorepieri 4y ago
      The likelihood is related to the apparent complexity of this universe: https://philpapers.org/rec/PIETSA-6 https://philpapers.org/rec/PIETSA-6
• falcor84 4y ago
  - “What do you get if you multiply six by nine?” -“forty two”
• zackmorris 4y ago
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