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Thought Experiment

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What will virtual reality be in 1,000 or 10,000 years? Will it create worlds and lifetimes like the ones that exist here? Will they be distinguishable from reality?

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come talk to me once u get on my lvl
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Big Brother's Spencer Clawson
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Name 1 inconsistency in the world.
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I don't know if you're aware of what you are. If you aren't then what differentiates us is that I'm able to see those inconsistencies.
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You're dodging the question though
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I don't think you're able to see inconsistencies in the world
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do you think that im aware of what I am?
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And even if I am my views on what you are still stand
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Becomeclear says


thecolonel says

Rather than what? I am not data compiled to resemble a person.


and how do you know that


I don't but I'm going to believe it because anything else isn't worth believing in
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thecolonel says

Rather than what? I am not data compiled to resemble a person.


and how do you know that
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Sorry about that veg. My programmer took me offline for a quick update and forgot that I was in a game.
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Rather than what? I am not data compiled to resemble a person.
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You think that physical people are plugged into a simulator like in The Matrix.
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Arcbell says

Nevermind we're talking about different types of simulation. Yours is just silly.


What's silly about it?
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thecolonel says

Do you think it would be realistic for 7.4 billion people to be connected to the same device?


http://multivax.com/last_question.html
for you my dear


edit:
actually after reading this a bit more carefully my link is not so relevant :<
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Nevermind we're talking about different types of simulation. Yours is just silly.
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Do you think it would be realistic for 7.4 billion people to be connected to the same device?
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I'm not saying there's any reason to believe that I'm the only one stuck in this
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Yes if you were special.
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Arcbell says


thecolonel says

I'd be able to accept that my environment isn't real but if my interactions and relationships are with chatbots I think I would have good reason to be concerned


Why would there be chatbots in a simulation? That's absurd.


Imagine the technology that would exist. I might have personal interactions with 10,000 people in my life. Wouldn't it be simpler to generate those personalities than rely on interconnection in the exponentially greater amount of simulations that would be running?
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Arcbell says


thecolonel says

I'd be able to accept that my environment isn't real but if my interactions and relationships are with chatbots I think I would have good reason to be concerned


Why would there be chatbots in a simulation? That's absurd.


The same reason there's onaholes in 3D virtual reality
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Edark says


thecolonel says

Follow up question: why haven't we made contact with intelligent alien life?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNhhvQGsMEc


There are a lot of excuses that could be made but the simplest is that it isn't set into the controls
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fair says

Also I don't know how it matters the distinction between simulation and reality seems rather irrelevant it changes nothing for any of us


Except one lies outside of the expectations of the status quo and one does not. This is near enough impossible to shake off.