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Is it knowable that we’re living in a simulation or not? Because if it’s not knowable, isn’t any argument for or against just meaningless cherry picking? So I’
by Waterluvian 3y ago
Is it knowable that we’re living in a simulation or not? Because if it’s not knowable, isn’t any argument for or against just meaningless cherry picking?
So I’m wondering what the ways might be that we can definitively know, versus new observations of how this universe works. Even a giant head appearing in the sky telling us it’s a sim would necessarily be reconcilable by changing our models?
- yreg 3y agoYou can't prove unknowable things, but you can have bayesian arguments about their probabilities. For some people it's meaningless, for others it's interesting to speculate.