Epicmafia

Thought Experiment

almost 10 years

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?

Arcbell

almost 10 years

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.

deletedalmost 10 years

Shut up Edark, we both know there's synthetic fluid flowing in your plastic veins

Edark

almost 10 years

thecolonel says

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

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

deletedalmost 10 years

we're the only two real humans, thecolonel

thecolonel

almost 10 years

It would be easier to deal with if I couldn't tell it exists

thecolonel

almost 10 years

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

fair

almost 10 years

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

fair

almost 10 years

Luminous beings are we... not this crude matter

Arcbell

almost 10 years

The line between abstraction and the concrete blurs then vanishes in analysis' endgame.

Arcbell

almost 10 years

Information is the same thing as matter, in a sense.

thecolonel

almost 10 years

How many realistic simulations of life will be running in 10,000 years? What are the odds that this is the one run that's real?

thecolonel

almost 10 years

If the world is a computer generation I might be open to the idea that some of you are real. There would still have to be ones which aren't. They would probably outnumber actual people.

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thecolonel says

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

I always thought of it more as them not contacting us because we aren't intelligent enough yet

thecolonel

almost 10 years

Alternatively, we all die and everything matters.

Satan

almost 10 years

who cares because we all die and nothing will matter

thecolonel

almost 10 years

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

deletedalmost 10 years

What if this is actually an indistinguishable reality different from the one that is actually true?

What if we're forever stuck in a paradoxical loop, not knowing what the true way of life is?