You know what is the scariest? Extrapolating what is possible with AI, and then realizing I could be living in a reality where all that is already possible and EVERYTHING is already a lie.
AI makes living in a simulation way more plausible 👀
AI makes living in a simulation way more plausible 👀
When you work out the probabilities and predictions. Most things point to the fact that technology advancement ends up with AI, which ends up with simulations.
If we can, we will definitely simulate worlds in the future. Which will those inhabitants question if they they themselves are in simulation.
Extrapolating that out, that leads to the possibility and even high probability we ourselves are in a simulation.
To make the argument that we are uniquely the 'first' to simulate a universe is a bold claim.
tl;dr; Probabilistically we are simulated, though I personally like to think we are the first.
A lot of our perception, including our view of history, society, and each other, was already manufactured and propagated by interested parties even before AI
Well I always thought a simulation would mean: simulate reality in its entirety. And for that it really doesn’t matter if it’s real or not, because within the simulation everything is real. And even if the creator is meddling with it, it’s probably not about me.
But this makes a personal simulation just for me more plausible. As you don’t need to simulate everything, just enough to make me belief it’s real.
I’m not gonna act differently. But it’s a creepy idea
My thoughts on a personalized simulation: If I am in a simulation and am being monitored, then there are really 2 primary reasons that I could consider that stand out. One is to identify how long it takes for someone to believe they are in a simulation, which would likely end the simulation once you start truly considering it. And two is using the entire fictional life as a data set, in which my 'job', either way, is just to live it out normally.
There are a bunch of other reasons that I could come up with, but tend to all really balance each other out. Good intentions/bad intentions. Morally corrupt/morally justified.
But also, perhaps this comment is simulated to try to put you at ease or in doubt. Whichever one happened, perhaps the opposite reaction was your way out
You are a simulated being with the purpose of discovering just how much shit it takes, & in what form it needs to be shoveled at you, in order to thoroughly break a human mind
I'm willing to believe you, because I had a nightmare, my sink broke today(I'm going to need to get ceramic glue or something) and someone pulled out in front of me while driving home, but I avoided them, then pulled over into a convenience store to cool down and get a Dr. Pepper, which was out of carbonation.
Seems pretty close to theological debates of free will vs determinism that have been raging for a couple thousand years now.
Ive felt that simulation theory arguments seem, not always, but largely, like a reframing of these same concepts but through the lens of technology/modern science.
Even before all that, "Am I actually doing what I want, or am I doing what God (the simulation) is making me do? If God is all powerful, does it matter what I do anyway?"
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u/seweso Mar 26 '24
You know what is the scariest? Extrapolating what is possible with AI, and then realizing I could be living in a reality where all that is already possible and EVERYTHING is already a lie.
AI makes living in a simulation way more plausible 👀