Maybe it’s some higher dimensional grad student simulating something to get some plots to add to a poster his postdoc wants him to present at a small time conference somewhere. Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
If what we perceive as reality is a simulation the purpose is quite clear, to observe the behavior of overconfident idiots unfettered by the mediating tendencies of a too reasonable reality.
HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
bobo@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.
Lisp is the true God’s programming language…
HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Wow awesome cover!
forrgott@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Your reply kinda reminds me of Thirteenth Floor.
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Maybe it’s some kid’s half-assed science project.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
That’s so many nested assumptions, lol:
Assumption table
- Graduate student in academia
- Running a simulation for data
- For a conference
- Haskell
The probability value of all four being true simultaneously approaches ≈0%
Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.
angrystego@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Come on, it doesn’t work like this. You can disprove the funny theory only if you give us an even more ridiculous one in it’s stead.
muzzle@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.
Most of it is empty. The trick is lazy evaluation.
Valmond@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Our telescopes eats up CPU cycles fast, the poor blokes cloud server will come with an unsuspecting bill this month…
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Yeah, it uses a simplified model unless you look too close. That’s how you get those funny quantum effects. Although, I have to say, great sativa, dude
Supervisor194@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.
I mean, if it’s really a simulation, all of that would be… simulated.
Naz@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I know; I’m just fishing out counter-examples and counter-arguments. I’m in the rare cadre of participants who like to roam around on the interior of the sim
shneancy@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
and honestly, even if it is a simulation, so what? do you have a way to get out? can you even exist outside of it? do you hurt or love any less knowing that? what are you supposed to do about it? give up? lay your simulation body on the simulation dirt and simulation die?
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 3 hours ago
Absurdism is your friend. If nothing matters in the long run, if all of existence is absurd, why not enjoy the here and now?
shneancy@lemmy.world 26 minutes ago
yes, been a fan of Camus’s philosophy since i was 16ish
krunklom@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
If it’s a simulation someone must be running it. Maybe we could get their attention somehow.
Praying obviously doesn’t work. Maybe if we all stripped naked and just kind of started getting it on in a giant juicy fuck pile that would get their attention.
And they could make things suck less.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
That’s assuming the someone running the simulation is even aware we are here. For all we know, they’re just trying to model out the behavior of stars and black holes.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
That’s why we should get all up in each others’ holes
dmention7@midwest.social 9 hours ago
If I was playing The Sims, and one of my Sims started showing up mistakeable signs of self awareness, I would panic and ctrl-alt-delete that shit so fast.
Maybe its better if we DMT-and-lasers our way into a plan before we start banging on the glass.
krunklom@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago
I’d just sims harder but that’s just me
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Roll up a simulation joint and get simulation high
Shanmugha@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Exactly this. Thank you for spelling it out