If the entirety of the internet was a simulation how would prove it?

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• Deestan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It provably isn’t, so I’d have to lean on dishonest proof. My contenders are:

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_logic Tim Bernes Lee said the internet was’t actually feasible. They just theorized the concept. Also, the initial darpanet servers that supposedly turned into the internet were shut down in 1965. Network cables would actually melt if they transferred data on internet scale.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition Need proof? The internet’s most prominent facet is MMOs: Simulated worlds.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_projection_fallacy It’s just pixels moving on my screen, people. It’s not real in any real sense. The computer is making all the words show up on my screen by following its internal machinery.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion It is a simulation. The internet is clearly a simulation. Everyone says it’s a simulation. The intetnet is a simulation.

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  • bright_side_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thoroughly enjoyed your comment 😊

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• cattywampas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  All of it? Like people I know IRL are actually fake online or something?

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  • ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Was about to point this out. I’d just go to one of my IRL friends and have him send me an E-Mail/PM/whatever while i watch him do it.

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• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My friend, we cannot even prove that our entire life is real.

  We know the human mind is capable of extreme delusion, we can observe this in mentally unwell patients who are convinced their delusions are reality.

  So if we acknowledge the human mind is capable of delusion, delusion so strong to be certain in its veracity, then there is no way that we can confidentially conclude that anything and everything we know isn’t delusion.

  So in short, there is no way to definitively prove the internet is real because we can’t even definitely prove that reality is real.

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  • False@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think therefore I am. If reality is fake it’s such a convincing fake that it effectively doesn’t matter.

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    • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Absolutely. But the harrowing part is realizing this applies to some folks we deem delusional in the context of our world too.

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  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yooooo

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  • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think, therefore I am

    From that we can affirm that at least one thing exists [me], thus the one and true question remains: Why does something exists instead of nothing ?

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    • Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This suggests a cosmic reason or purpose, yet I find no evidence for that conclusion exists.

      There just might simply not be a “why”?

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• stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would set up A shop to sell stuff, AI don’t got no money.

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  • Kualdir@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Jokes on you people already use AI to invest so they technically have money

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Propose to meet someone from the internet IRL

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  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sorry, I’m busy.

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  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Cash me IRL, how 'bout dat?

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Internet already is a simulation of real places and things.

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Look at phenomena that should be totally random, and look for evidence that they were produced by pseudorandom number generators.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Umm.

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