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The problem with finding and abusing exploits is that it leads to them getting patched and the timeline reverts. Every time a game-breaking bug is exploited it
by TheAceOfHearts 4y ago
The problem with finding and abusing exploits is that it leads to them getting patched and the timeline reverts. Every time a game-breaking bug is exploited it gets patched and the simulation restarts.
Even if you figure out a couple of juicy exploits and you manage to retain your memories across instances, congratulations you are still stuck in Samsara.
My hypothesis is that the ability to remember across lifetimes exists within a spectrum. Ranging from vibes and gut feelings to vividly remembering all past lifetimes like the Buddha.
It's impossible to count how many cycles the simulation has been running for, but each cycle people grow and change a little bit. Maybe when you achieve enlightenment you get to leave for the next level.
You know how they say that you should live every moment like it's your last? People don't give it much thought because they think the likelihood of instantly dying is pretty low, but they never consider that the simulation is often stopped at unexpected moments without warning. Every moment could really be your last.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoIf it's a simulation, they run in parallel. It is not.
- TJSomething 4y agoIt seems kind of weird to me that you could exist as part of an intentionally engineered, computer simulation that could be patched and restarted, while also having past lives in the Buddhist sense. I mean, I guess if you figured out where qualia and continuity of consciousness came from, you could engineer past lives for ethical purposes, so you aren't really killing people if you have to restart the simulation. Alternately, if conscious observers are actually privileged over unconscious observers is some medium independent way (read: souls exist and spontaneously come into existence anywhere consciousness happens), that would just be an engineering limitation a universe developer would have to deal with.
- nprateem 4y ago> getting patched That assumes that finding a way out isn't the point of the simulation. I've always thought enlightenment or hallucinogens were the gateway.
- jjallen 4y ago"enlightenment or hallucinogens" These are just local things. I don't see how they are related to the simulation. Feel free to enlighten me.
- nprateem 4y agoOver the centuries many people have said some variation of "The total number of minds in the Universe is one" (Schroedinger). If you view enlightenment as aiming to get back to that fundamental, underlying consciousness, surely you'd be outside the simulation at that point. Hallucinogens may offer a faster, temporary experience of that state for some people (or at least a hint that there's more than just this material world, a bleeding through to the outside of the 'simulation')
- kelnos 4y agoGiven enough people running enough simulations, I think it's safe to assume that some simulation-runners would deliberately not want to do as you describe. They might decide that they (as the simulation-runner) don't get "do overs", and must allow things to run their "natural" course. If we are living in a simulated universe, it's of course anybody's guess as to which kind of simulation-runner we have.
- jjallen 4y agoI agree that one of the big dangers we have is not breaking the simulation. We run simulations to see what works best -- to test and experiment. We end our simulations when we know the answer or see that something isn't working (too many people dying from a new drug for instance). So I am very concerned that we will reach a point like that, especially with our recent advances in technology.