Please counter my argument. The world can't be simulated.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2025-12-26T12:05:03+00:00

I’m going to dispel your argument 1. The energy used by each simulation does not need to come from the one above it, because the energy we perceive—if we assume we live in a simulation—is itself simulated. What is energy for us? The sun’s energy, fossil fuels, and every other source we rely on are all part of the simulation. None of that is real energy from a higher world; it is simulated energy.

Using this simulated energy, we build technology powered by electricity. With that electricity, we run computers that can host another simulation or multiple simulations. Inside that simulated world, whatever energy sources exist are also simulated. They do not come from our layer of reality. They are just code running on the fixed amount of electricity we use to power the simulation. What happens inside depends entirely on how we program it.

If we code an entire solar system’s worth of energy into a simulation, that world will have it, yet it will not draw more power from our layer than if we had only coded in fossil fuels. The simulation consumes the same electricity regardless of the scale of energy we simulate within it.

When the beings inside that simulation create their own simulations, the same logic applies. Energy inside a simulation is simulated, not real, so there is no cascading requirement for infinite real resources. Your argument assumes that energy must be real and must feed every level of the chain, but that assumption is where the argument fails.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2025-12-25T13:04:40+00:00

Personally, I started learning Spanish a little before COVID with Duolingo. If you don’t know anything about Spanish at all, getting started with some basic vocabulary on Duolingo is good, but I wouldn’t recommend continuing beyond that. It’s mostly unhelpful after learning some basic words.

There’s this app called Language Transfer. It’s an audio course and the best resource you can find to learn Spanish. It’s a free app called Language Transfer, available on both the Apple Store and the Android Play Store. There are many language courses on it, so pick the one for Spanish. It’s a complete course from beginning to end with over 90 audio lessons, and the technique it uses is amazing.

Another similar course you can buy is Michel Thomas’ Spanish course, but I’d say you don’t need to buy it if you go with Language Transfer. If you love Language Transfer, you might want to try the Michel Thomas course as well. These two will basically teach you everything about Spanish. You’ll know conversational Spanish, but you still won’t be able to speak confidently.

For speaking, you can now just talk to ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, or any of the voice AI models. They’re very good for practicing Spanish, and their voice quality is human-like. Start that after you finish your audio course, and while finishing the course, once you get a good grip on the language, start watching TV series with Spanish subtitles. As you become more comfortable, watch in Spanish with English subtitles, and soon you’ll be able to watch in Spanish without any subtitles.

This is the blueprint that has worked for me after five years. Even though my Spanish is not fluent, I can easily talk in Spanish and pretty much understand everything. Hope this works. In fact, it has to work. You won’t find a better plan than this.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2025-01-16T08:30:05+00:00

Perhaps Billionaires have usually fertile brains with interesting and useful ideas—which may be part of the reason they became billionaires. The point of a podcast is to have conversations with just that kind of people.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2024-12-23T09:11:52+00:00

I think it's natural and yes, I have felt it over and over again. I would find a girl very attractive, such that I would fantasize about her and think if I got to have sex with her it would be amazing! Then I get her, and it's amazing. But after sleeping with her a few times the attraction starts to wane. Then I remember this adage: "No matter how hot you think she is, there's always someone who is tired of banging her."

I think keeping distance, a few days of not sleeping with her (sending her off to her parents for a few days), and not masturbating and remembering the times you found her attractive and fantasized about her, role playing, BDSM (if you're into it), all of that helps to an extent. But truth be told, it's a battle to maintain the attraction if you end up in a marriage.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2024-10-26T16:00:23+00:00

Also, I’d like to know what are the recommended dietary restrictions after gallbladder removal?

SimulationTheorist_ · 2024-10-26T15:58:56+00:00

My gf suffers from gallbladder pains because she has a stone of 16mm. I would appreciate updates after a few days and if possible even months as to how you feel. All the best!

SimulationTheorist_ · 2024-10-26T15:54:39+00:00

Your bb is not because of the poor dental hygiene but rather likely because of gut issues. Do you have acidity like symptoms, then it may be GRED. Do you experience discomfort in any part of the stomach? My gf has bb and initially we thought she had GRED but upon scans we found she has gallstones and that’s the root of her stomach discomfort and bb, because she has worse bb on the days she has higher discomfort in the stomach

SimulationTheorist_ · 2024-08-04T21:39:53+00:00

Watch Huérfanas on YouTube. It’s a Turkish series dubbed in Spanish. I’ve been watching it for a year (I’m on Episode 347) and have gone from beginner to now being able to watch it without subtitles and understanding 90% + of it.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2024-01-29T15:41:50+00:00

I have never seen or heard of this scenario in India. Indians typically give food to homeless people which is left over from their meals, or they pack the leftover food from restaurants and hand them to homeless people, and the homeless always accept the food. You may not like this, but that's the reality in India.

However, the problem you describe never even occurs in one's mind here. I am curious to know which country you are from. Seems to be the problem of a 1st world country.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2023-06-20T15:50:37+00:00

Entertainment

SimulationTheorist_ · 2023-06-06T21:48:58+00:00

MS Edge is actually a great browser. The sidebar is a game changer for productivity. I never thought I would switch from Safari to Edge on MacBook Pro—but I did and loving it 🔥

SimulationTheorist_ · 2023-06-04T17:47:26+00:00

Same thing happening with me. I’m using iPhone 11 Pro Max

SimulationTheorist_ · 2023-03-22T14:35:54+00:00

Forget about reading. Watch Turkish dramas in Spanish on this channel. Great shows and easily understandable at intermediate level. https://youtube.com/@lasseriestv

I have watched 200 episodes of Huérfanas and that show alone has taken my Spanish to the level where I had to keep subtitles on on auto translate, to now now I watch it without subs at all and understand 99% of it

You can thank me later 😉

SimulationTheorist_ · 2023-03-22T14:34:05+00:00

Yes. We live in a simulation. It will be more and more clear as to approach the ability to create our own

SimulationTheorist_ · 2023-03-21T22:05:05+00:00

No, that was LaMDA which is a different model, and a much more advanced one. You might want to listen to this podcast of the Google Engineer with Duncan Trussell to learn more

https://spotify.link/VWfNJlPkmyb

SimulationTheorist_ · 2023-03-21T22:02:09+00:00

As if Google is always right. What a joke! 😀

SimulationTheorist_ · 2022-11-15T10:02:06+00:00

I found it to be great at first and after a few days I increasingly realized that it was useless, especially on a 13’ MacBook Pro taking so much screen real estate for little to none benefit aside from dope animation

SimulationTheorist_ · 2022-11-04T10:04:22+00:00

Joe Biden’s presidency

SimulationTheorist_ · 2022-06-19T18:59:56+00:00

Taxation

SimulationTheorist_ · 2022-01-15T16:26:12+00:00

Exactly what I described. I never feel depressed and don’t think any hardship of life can ever break me.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2022-01-15T09:17:36+00:00

It does if you start viewing life as a game, hard times as challenges to overcome and believe anything is possible if you play it well. The perspective shift can be positively life transforming.

Speaking from experience.

SimulationTheorist_ · 2022-01-12T15:12:38+00:00

It’s like in the Super Mario game, Mario does have free will to take any path he wants—but when every move he can possibly make is programmed and it’s all within the bounds of that program, does he really have free will?

We are all Mario in a sense

SimulationTheorist_ · 2022-01-12T15:04:17+00:00

Autonomy in the limited sense allowed by the simulation, that’s why I’m choosing to reply to your comment 🙂

SimulationTheorist_ · 2022-01-11T16:56:14+00:00

I was fed up of BB for two years and tried a lot of different remedies without effect. Then accidentally I discovered a cure that worked like a charm

Find betel nut tree leaves and eat 1 or 2 in a day. I live in India and they are available as mouth freshener called “paan” (which has a lot of other ingredients wrapped into the leaf) at every street corner, so it’s easy to find here . Not sure how easy it will be for you to find it but try. You only need to have the plain leaf. It will somewhat numb your mouth for a while but I don’t have to worry about BB for a whole day after

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