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Found this in the thread about GPT-10... kernelKommando 4 minutes ago | parent | next [–] What if we're all just GPT-generated comments in a GPT-generated wor

• xpl 3y ago
  It easily could be. And according to the simulation hypothesis (by Nick Bostrom), it is the most probable thing actually. P.S. There is also a hilarious Rick and Morty episode about a car battery universe: https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Microverse_Battery https://rickandmorty.fandom.com/wiki/Microverse_Battery
• xpl 3y ago
  And yeah... it is interesting that GPT-generated agents sometimes "realize" that they could be indeed GPT-generated. I once saw a strange dream where my "character" realized that he was only a product of my imagination — the very moment before I woke up. It was not me, but him, who had that stunning realization. And once it happened, there was no him. So I sometimes wonder if that is how the death looks like — you just suddenly realize that "you" was only a subprocess temporarily spawned to existence within some kind of powerful virtual machine, be it a GPT-1000 or whatever.