” If you stop and ask a random stranger a difficult question, you notice they will look blank and pause a bit before answering? They are waiting to have the full personality kit downloaded to them.”
Democrat.
As long as we’re going full-bore woo-woo, I think this would also fit nicely with a lot of quantum physics.
Plank length is just voxel size. Quantum wave collapse is the sim switching from low-res (for out-of-focus areas) to high-res mode, or maybe lazy evaluation. Uncertainty principle is floating-point rounding errors.
Simulated universes are much cheaper to make than the real thing,
The argument collapses if this unproven assertion is false.
The idea that matter is information (and/or visa versa) is possible… meaning there is no distinction between real and fake. Put another way, there are no real universes to produce the fake.
Then again, if ours is real, we produce fake ones constantly, but none would ever be confused for real.
Joe the plumber thinks this is all too stinking weird, but might make a good movie.
“Simulated universes are much cheaper to make than the real thing…”
Handy, too, if you’re on the run from the Galactic Police, and they want to feed you into the Total Perspective Vortex.
“SO IF WE’RE LIVING IN A SIMULATION, HOW DO I GET MY HANDS ON THE CHEAT CODES?”
God got those.
I have always been a materialistic realist but I had a moment in my life where I actually thought I was wrong all this time and the world was actually an idealistic construct which was based on the intersection of the views of each of the actors in the system akin to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Even on a macro level. Then I tried punching an iron gate. I nearly broke my hand.
Materialism wins.
If you want to read something akin to the line of thought in the linked article try reading Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon. But I have to warn you that it is influenced by the Devil.
Snicker. What the actual Universe is made of doesn’t matter at all. What matters is what we do what of out what we have.
The atoms that make up iron and your hand are mostly empty space.
What’s weird is that anything can hit anything else.
This very much mimics collision detection in a video game.
Very bad theology, It assumes that the “creator’s universe” would have computers similar to ours (but vastly more powerful) based on similar concepts of computer science. But if our universe is a video game, there’s no reason to assume the empirical laws of the “game universe” mirror anything in the creator’s universe. So, the whole argument collapses into hopeless circularity.
Ah short of the visual Horizon of the universe is fake, and simplified then you start getting into loony toons earth/milky way center of the universe with everything else being a simplified simulation. I have a distant feeling you’ll need a universe sized computer to contain all the information of the particles in the universe, you need more particles in the simulation universe to define one particle in the simulated universe. Now that assuming they don’t have some fantastical physics where a particle doesn’t have a very large quantum bit state, or possibly a lot more dimensions. Though that maybe just the fish in the fish bowl assuming anything more than it’s fish bowl is too big to exist.
“I have a distant feeling you’ll need a universe sized computer to contain all the information of the particles in the universe, you need more particles in the simulation universe to define one particle in the simulated universe. ”
Is that really true. Could you not have a system whereby the visual is created only if/when someone looks?
So, for example, does the Empire State Building exist always in the Sim? Or does it exist only if someone looks at it? Does an article about its construction exist only if someone in the Sim reads it?
As Ken MacLeod has pointed out, on a mountainside somewhere in the Caucuses there a continuous code readout of part of our simulation…
😉
” If you stop and ask a random stranger a difficult question, you notice they will look blank and pause a bit before answering? They are waiting to have the full personality kit downloaded to them.”
Democrat.
As long as we’re going full-bore woo-woo, I think this would also fit nicely with a lot of quantum physics.
Plank length is just voxel size. Quantum wave collapse is the sim switching from low-res (for out-of-focus areas) to high-res mode, or maybe lazy evaluation. Uncertainty principle is floating-point rounding errors.
Simulated universes are much cheaper to make than the real thing,
The argument collapses if this unproven assertion is false.
The idea that matter is information (and/or visa versa) is possible… meaning there is no distinction between real and fake. Put another way, there are no real universes to produce the fake.
Then again, if ours is real, we produce fake ones constantly, but none would ever be confused for real.
Joe the plumber thinks this is all too stinking weird, but might make a good movie.
“Simulated universes are much cheaper to make than the real thing…”
Handy, too, if you’re on the run from the Galactic Police, and they want to feed you into the Total Perspective Vortex.
“SO IF WE’RE LIVING IN A SIMULATION, HOW DO I GET MY HANDS ON THE CHEAT CODES?”
God got those.
I have always been a materialistic realist but I had a moment in my life where I actually thought I was wrong all this time and the world was actually an idealistic construct which was based on the intersection of the views of each of the actors in the system akin to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Even on a macro level. Then I tried punching an iron gate. I nearly broke my hand.
Materialism wins.
If you want to read something akin to the line of thought in the linked article try reading Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon. But I have to warn you that it is influenced by the Devil.
Snicker. What the actual Universe is made of doesn’t matter at all. What matters is what we do what of out what we have.
The atoms that make up iron and your hand are mostly empty space.
What’s weird is that anything can hit anything else.
This very much mimics collision detection in a video game.
Very bad theology, It assumes that the “creator’s universe” would have computers similar to ours (but vastly more powerful) based on similar concepts of computer science. But if our universe is a video game, there’s no reason to assume the empirical laws of the “game universe” mirror anything in the creator’s universe. So, the whole argument collapses into hopeless circularity.
Ah short of the visual Horizon of the universe is fake, and simplified then you start getting into loony toons earth/milky way center of the universe with everything else being a simplified simulation. I have a distant feeling you’ll need a universe sized computer to contain all the information of the particles in the universe, you need more particles in the simulation universe to define one particle in the simulated universe. Now that assuming they don’t have some fantastical physics where a particle doesn’t have a very large quantum bit state, or possibly a lot more dimensions. Though that maybe just the fish in the fish bowl assuming anything more than it’s fish bowl is too big to exist.
“I have a distant feeling you’ll need a universe sized computer to contain all the information of the particles in the universe, you need more particles in the simulation universe to define one particle in the simulated universe. ”
Is that really true. Could you not have a system whereby the visual is created only if/when someone looks?
So, for example, does the Empire State Building exist always in the Sim? Or does it exist only if someone looks at it? Does an article about its construction exist only if someone in the Sim reads it?
As Ken MacLeod has pointed out, on a mountainside somewhere in the Caucuses there a continuous code readout of part of our simulation…
😉