I pretend every single day so people at work and in various places of society will accept me because if I be myself I am just a dipshit.
So I guess you could say I am a simulation of someone who is way cooler than me.
Same. I put on my brave face and act "right". If the people only knew.
I also pretend as if I like people... which I do not. I'd smash a lot of shit and call lots of people "trash" if it were socially acceptable or if I wouldn't get beat up.
Let me clarify... I like people who are nice/polite. Trash bag jerks... I dislike strongly.
Yeah, I don't think so either. I don't know where our civilization ranks technologically in the cosmos, but we have a hard enough time writing the software to simulate a relatively linear world in video games. A rendered universe that dives all the way down the atomic level just seems too massive and detailed. There would be trillions upon trillions of glitches.
I mean, at around 9 minutes the fun stops and he starts examining the holes in the argument. Simulation theory remind me of "just-so" stories seen in biology.
High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are real or virtual--and what it means either way"
"Moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the museum's Hayden Planetarium, put the odds at 50-50 that our entire existence is a program on someone else's hard drive. ...it is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just a creation of some other entity for their entertainment."..."If I were a character in a computer game, I would also discover eventually that the rules seemed completely rigid and mathematical," said Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "That just reflects the computer code in which it was written." Furthermore, ideas from information theory keep showing up in physics. "In my research I found this very strange thing," said James Gates, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland. "I was driven to error-correcting codes--they're what make browsers work. So why were they in the equations I was studying about quarks and electrons and supersymmetry? This brought me to the stark realization that I could no longer say people like Max are crazy."
Of course, others think the whole thing is "silly". However, from a purely scientific perspective, you can not rule this argument out. While it's of course true that there's no direct evidence that we're living in a simulation, the question arises, how would you know??
High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are real or virtual--and what it means either way"
"Moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the museum's Hayden Planetarium, put the odds at 50-50 that our entire existence is a program on someone else's hard drive. ...it is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just a creation of some other entity for their entertainment."..."If I were a character in a computer game, I would also discover eventually that the rules seemed completely rigid and mathematical," said Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "That just reflects the computer code in which it was written." Furthermore, ideas from information theory keep showing up in physics. "In my research I found this very strange thing," said James Gates, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland. "I was driven to error-correcting codes--they're what make browsers work. So why were they in the equations I was studying about quarks and electrons and supersymmetry? This brought me to the stark realization that I could no longer say people like Max are crazy."
Of course, others think the whole thing is "silly". However, from a purely scientific perspective, you can not rule this argument out. While it's of course true that there's no direct evidence that we're living in a simulation, the question arises, how would you know??
Not being about to rule things out is how science works. When you tell someone they're wrong you can't say you're wrong you have time say there isn't sufficient evidence to refute the claim. NDT is a popular scientist for a reason mainly bc he speaks on pop issues however this one is philosophy based and he openly bashes philosophy as a discipline on several occasions. Physicists are further from philosophers than satiticians imo but that's besides the point. One main flaw w the theory is that is it bias towards our perception of reality. It obviously reflects a human perspective of what computing is and our simulations. In other words, it's subjective. It's assuming a simulation of a universe is something we could recognize because we've simulated things before. The criticism in the video says that a system would abort or adjust to make that recognition not happen (in so many words I watched it a few days ago). Euclid taught us 2500 years ago that to examine any argument you need only to examine the assumptions. Even in the begining, the assumptions are sketchy at best. Anyway, happy popular science for everyone. I'll go back to grumbling about how shitty pop science has become with the disgrace the Bill Nye has become and the hypocrisy NDT displays.
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So I guess you could say I am a simulation of someone who is way cooler than me.
When I was a kid I used to wonder what if I was the only real person with real consciousness and what if nothing existed outside of my "here and now".
Don't most people? I think this idea of solipsism is just normal.
When I was a kid I used to wonder what if I was the only real person with real consciousness and what if nothing existed outside of my "here and now".
Don't most people? I think this idea of solipsism is just normal.
I dunno dude. I was like 8.
I pretend every single day so people at work and in various places of society will accept me because if I be myself I am just a dipshit.
So I guess you could say I am a simulation of someone who is way cooler than me.
Same. I put on my brave face and act "right". If the people only knew.
I also pretend as if I like people... which I do not. I'd smash a lot of shit and call lots of people "trash" if it were socially acceptable or if I wouldn't get beat up.
Let me clarify... I like people who are nice/polite. Trash bag jerks... I dislike strongly.
Are YOU real? How can I be sure you're real when you've got an avatar as a picture and a name avatar!?
HOW???
Ps. Say avatar a bunch of times. It's weird.
"Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are real or virtual--and what it means either way"
"Moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the museum's Hayden Planetarium, put the odds at 50-50 that our entire existence is a program on someone else's hard drive. ...it is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just a creation of some other entity for their entertainment."..."If I were a character in a computer game, I would also discover eventually that the rules seemed completely rigid and mathematical," said Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "That just reflects the computer code in which it was written." Furthermore, ideas from information theory keep showing up in physics. "In my research I found this very strange thing," said James Gates, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland. "I was driven to error-correcting codes--they're what make browsers work. So why were they in the equations I was studying about quarks and electrons and supersymmetry? This brought me to the stark realization that I could no longer say people like Max are crazy."
Of course, others think the whole thing is "silly". However, from a purely scientific perspective, you can not rule this argument out. While it's of course true that there's no direct evidence that we're living in a simulation, the question arises, how would you know??
I think the real question here is "Why is your name 'avatar!' with a random knight avatar?"
Are YOU real? How can I be sure you're real when you've got an avatar as a picture and a name avatar!?
HOW???
Ps. Say avatar a bunch of times. It's weird.
HAHAHA!! This made me laugh WAY more than it should have!
I think the real question here is "Why is your name 'avatar!' with a random knight avatar?"
Are YOU real? How can I be sure you're real when you've got an avatar as a picture and a name avatar!?
HOW???
Ps. Say avatar a bunch of times. It's weird.
He isn't answering either, I bet he is some sort of simulated computer program and they never programmed in the explanation of his existence.
I think the real question here is "Why is your name 'avatar!' with a random knight avatar?"
Are YOU real? How can I be sure you're real when you've got an avatar as a picture and a name avatar!?
HOW???
Ps. Say avatar a bunch of times. It's weird.
He isn't answering either, I bet he is some sort of simulated computer program and they never programmed in the explanation of his existence.
#deep
I actually just watched The Matrix for the first time in my life a few nights ago...weird timing
Oh you are so out of the club now...
The people that have never seen "The Matrix" club that is.
https://www.scientificamerican.co...
"Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?
High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are real or virtual--and what it means either way"
"Moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of the museum's Hayden Planetarium, put the odds at 50-50 that our entire existence is a program on someone else's hard drive. ...it is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just a creation of some other entity for their entertainment."..."If I were a character in a computer game, I would also discover eventually that the rules seemed completely rigid and mathematical," said Max Tegmark, a cosmologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "That just reflects the computer code in which it was written." Furthermore, ideas from information theory keep showing up in physics. "In my research I found this very strange thing," said James Gates, a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland. "I was driven to error-correcting codes--they're what make browsers work. So why were they in the equations I was studying about quarks and electrons and supersymmetry? This brought me to the stark realization that I could no longer say people like Max are crazy."
Of course, others think the whole thing is "silly". However, from a purely scientific perspective, you can not rule this argument out. While it's of course true that there's no direct evidence that we're living in a simulation, the question arises, how would you know??
Not being about to rule things out is how science works. When you tell someone they're wrong you can't say you're wrong you have time say there isn't sufficient evidence to refute the claim. NDT is a popular scientist for a reason mainly bc he speaks on pop issues however this one is philosophy based and he openly bashes philosophy as a discipline on several occasions. Physicists are further from philosophers than satiticians imo but that's besides the point. One main flaw w the theory is that is it bias towards our perception of reality. It obviously reflects a human perspective of what computing is and our simulations. In other words, it's subjective. It's assuming a simulation of a universe is something we could recognize because we've simulated things before. The criticism in the video says that a system would abort or adjust to make that recognition not happen (in so many words I watched it a few days ago). Euclid taught us 2500 years ago that to examine any argument you need only to examine the assumptions. Even in the begining, the assumptions are sketchy at best. Anyway, happy popular science for everyone. I'll go back to grumbling about how shitty pop science has become with the disgrace the Bill Nye has become and the hypocrisy NDT displays.
I think the real question here is "Why is your name 'avatar!' with a random knight avatar?"
Are YOU real? How can I be sure you're real when you've got an avatar as a picture and a name avatar!?
HOW???
Ps. Say avatar a bunch of times. It's weird.
He isn't answering either, I bet he is some sort of simulated computer program and they never programmed in the explanation of his existence.
#deep
#REAL
Avatar! ... if that is your real name. I will disregard your tiny shot at Canada. Come at me one more time and we might have a problem. (Jokes)
PS. I wish doner24 was right. Then we'd get to hang with the ghost with the most!