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IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE THE PATTERN BRO (mander.xyz)
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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (26 children)

If what we perceive as reality is a simulation the purpose is quite clear, to observe the behavior of overconfident idiots unfettered by the mediating tendencies of a too reasonable reality.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Maybe it’s some higher dimensional grad student simulating something to get some plots to add to a poster his postdoc wants him to present at a small time conference somewhere. Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That's so many nested assumptions, lol:

    Assumption table

    1. Graduate student in academia
    2. Running a simulation for data
    3. For a conference
    4. Haskell

    The probability value of all four being true simultaneously approaches ≈0%

    Don't forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Don't forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

    Most of it is empty. The trick is lazy evaluation.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

    and honestly, even if it is a simulation, so what? do you have a way to get out? can you even exist outside of it? do you hurt or love any less knowing that? what are you supposed to do about it? give up? lay your simulation body on the simulation dirt and simulation die?

    none of it really matters does it, especially because you can't know if it's possible to leave/exist outside. as far as you know this life is still the only thing that is certain

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    If it's a simulation someone must be running it. Maybe we could get their attention somehow.

    Praying obviously doesn't work. Maybe if we all stripped naked and just kind of started getting it on in a giant juicy fuck pile that would get their attention.

    And they could make things suck less.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    If I was playing The Sims, and one of my Sims started showing un-mistakeable signs of self awareness, I would panic and ctrl-alt-delete that shit so fast.

    Maybe its better if we DMT-and-lasers our way into a plan before we start banging on the glass.

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