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That doesn't really solve the problem because the simulation is (apparently) big enough to allow life to evolve. Why couldn't life evolve multiple times in a si

That doesn't really solve the problem because the simulation is (apparently) big enough to allow life to evolve. Why couldn't life evolve multiple times in a simulation? Isn't the argument about simulation more about pondering the question "what is the fundamental nature of reality?", not "why is there life?". If you say that some beings are interfering with our simulation (either designing life, or preventing other life, etc...), that is just another word for god.

ngvrnd 4y ago
"Why couldn't life evolve multiple times in a simulation?" Because the Grad Students don't want it to, and act to prevent it? :-)
- thereddaikon 4y ago
  Why would they bother making a sim that big if it was empty? Even No Man's Sky is full of cookie cutter creatures.
  - detritus 4y ago
    It's more of a psychological experiment, perhaps?
  - zhengyi13 4y ago
    You don't actually make that big a sim. You just fiddle with the render distance so the sims think it's that big.
AnimalMuppet 4y ago
It's another word for God even without interfering. There's still the Creator(s).