Depends on the structure of the simulation. If it’s general enough then they didn’t specifically plan to have this capacity, it’s just the result of the inputs and constraints of the simulation.
If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation?
Submitted 3 weeks ago by qbert@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Asafum@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
randomdeadguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Creators don’t have to be all-knowing. Also, because believing this reality is a simulation does not change the rules we live by, there is no difference between the life of a sim-denier and sim-believer. It’s not as if you’d be punished just for [redacted].
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So instead of a simulation, maybe we’re living inside of some other type of thing we’re hard-wired to be unable to even think of.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I like this observation a lot. Because I was going to say that if we couldn’t conceive of a simulation, we’d probably just speculate about the closest thing we could imagine.
lath@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Replace simulation with book where only a framework is defined and and the plot is built within the set rules.
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Like a limited ‘fake’ world edifice structured through legal fictions like money, which attempts to assert that it is significantly more pervasive than it actually is, through stories like The Matrix, to instill a sense of hopelessness upon anyone who even considers not submitting to it.
pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 3 weeks ago
You’ve probably read about language model AIs basically being uncontrollable black boxes even to the very people who invented them.
When OpenAI wants to restrict ChatGPT from saying some stuff, they can fine tune the model to reduce the likelihood that it will output forbidden words or sentences, but this does not offer any guarantee that the model will actually stop saying forbidden things.
The only way of actually preventing such an agent from saying something is to check the output after it is generated, and not send it to the user if it triggers a content filter.
My point is that AI researchers found a way to simulate some kind of artificial brains, from which some “intelligence” emerges in a way that these same researchers are far from deeply understanding.
If we live in a simulation, my guess is that life was not manually designed by the simulation’s creators, but rather that it emerged from the simulation’s rules (what we Sims call physics), just like people studying the origins of life mostly hypothesize. If this is the case, the creators are probably as clueless about the inner details of our consciousness as we are about the inner details of LLMs
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s not like my Conway’s Game of Life creatures can ever escape their petri dish. I’m so zoomed out that I wouldn’t even notice if they were intelligent.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because that’s what people outside of a simulation would do.
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My best guess: The thought processes required to ponder the possibility of a simulation are too important to the goal of the simulation itself to disable.
bear@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Obviously for the lols.
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
It’s probably a bug.
Fuck, if we’re in a simulation I’d be most amazed that nobody has managed to trigger a null pointer exception to crash the whole thing yet.
Oh, also, infinite recursion… and we got so close with youtu.be/xz6OGVCdov8
tonyn@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Maybe our types of thoughts are so primitive compared to them that they can’t even imagine that we’d have them.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because everyone is always looking up.
Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Movie rights. Were something like bitcoin. Our ideas generate value to the creators. The more in-sim value that’s created, so it extends to the creators. Mirrors are to blame, you see. Whichever creator allows mirrors to exist in-sim nearly destroyed the sim the first time a “person” stood between two mirrors and saw their infinite reflection. The immediate fix was to allow the concept of infinite universes and sim life.
jBlight@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Life isn’t as fun if you have all the answers. You’ll lose the opportunity for growth.
theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe that’s the entire point
MissJinx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reality ia amazing but to value our blissful existence we have to go through a simulation of how horrible the exitance could be. I for exemple am incredibly happy in reality but Taylor swift is an 1 eye, no arms, Afgan orfan in reality… Or just reality Mcdonalds employeeq
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
This comment reads like a person who keeps being pulled into previous lives, and started hallucinating they were some monkish writer.
Are you ok?