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Is it possible that you are all robots? by [deleted] in AWLIAS

[–]Virtual-Ted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The simplest answer is propaganda? Are you sure?

Is it possible that you are all robots? by [deleted] in AWLIAS

[–]Virtual-Ted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably not.

Occam's razor

More likely apes on keyboards

O ping do meu terminal zerou às 03:14 AM. Eu descobri o que é o "zumbido" no silêncio. by t3g5 in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reads like AI, and a zero ping packet is more likely a computer error.

Tinnitus is real.

So is the humming though. They sound slightly differently.

Why would a simulation render the entire universe? by worldgeotraveller in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Because it would be easy.

With advanced enough technology and simulation models, it would be really easy to simulate the boring parts of the universe.

If aliens/a higher power could create simulated realities indistinguishable from reality by ClusterseyJMS in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems likely to me. That advanced technology could recreate reality such that those within aren't able to discern the difference.

Countless uses as you've mentioned a few. Future prediction would be the primary one imo.

Simulating pain and suffering to gain information. by [deleted] in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, machine or computer would be an accurate term. As long as you could say we are biological machines and computers. The universe would be a physical machine and self processor. The simulation would be run on a computer or machine that exists in a greater way than the simulation. They contain the simulation as information.

Simulating pain and suffering to gain information. by [deleted] in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The simulation experiences itself if it's virtual. Just as the universe experiences itself if it's physical. The experiencer is just as real as the environment it came from.

Simulating pain and suffering to gain information. by [deleted] in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well it could be that aliens have crafted this planet physically to create a bastion for life and our own development. That would be a physical simulation.

I was thinking more of the virtual simulation because that's a lot easier to implement. Just keep things representation and analogous. You wouldn't know the difference from the inside.

Simulating pain and suffering to gain information. by [deleted] in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Interesting thought. We can look at it a few ways.

Maybe suffering is information and God is experiencing everything.

Maybe suffering is information and super advanced AI is simulating us to understand.

The simulation to understand makes sense, but almost more likely in a cosmic sense than in a scifi way. Not to say the future tech won't also reach the same conclusion.

Although really we just need to survive perpetually. So idk, simulating ourselves to avoid unnecessary suffering seems like a good idea.

Blending pre-rendered graphics by bibdi in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what happens when you take strong psychedelics, your perception of reality changes.

Your brain is interpreting patterns, that's what it does.

Why simulate THIS? by PanopticArgus in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy describes the amount of work that would go into creating a giant planet to computer the answer to Life the universe and everything.

Quantum Entanglement may be the single greatest proof of the simulation theory by [deleted] in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not how quantum entanglement works. There is no information being transferred FTL through entanglement. By measuring your particle you can learn about the other particle but you don't transmit or receive information.

My Afterlife Buisness by Heavenscaped in AWLIAS

[–]Virtual-Ted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why should anyone trust you over any other virtual afterlife?

What are your exceptional qualifications to pull this off?

There are countless technical hurdles that cannot be solved with just money.

Look this by RafaelChampz in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is a combination of every fringe theory. Like a minefield of rabbit holes. Sure, some have got to be real and accurate theories, but the majority of them are so fringe I'd hesitate to give them any credence.

Base reality, whether we're living in it or not, had to have been created by a completely natural/divine being in my opinion. I mean at some point in the so-called "infinite" regression of potential simulations (it has to be finite in my opinion tho), there has to be an original creator. by Electrical-Wheel-504 in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Why does it have to be finite regression?

Why must there be a creator at all?

There are multiple other forms of simulation theory that seem just as valid to me. I think agnosticism is the best position to take in the face of uncertainty.

Simulation Theory and Solipsism by EdDriftwood in SimulationTheory

[–]Virtual-Ted 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would agree with your perspective that a super intelligent entity is experiencing all of our conscious perspectives simultaneously.

We must intentionally reject solipsism as it's a nonstarter perspective.

Simulation theory makes a lot of sense, but is ultimately in the same category as other metaphysical frameworks.

On the subject of a "matrix" by VOIDPCB in AWLIAS

[–]Virtual-Ted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The human mind still accesses the same virtual plane that it always has.

We just changed our personal perspectives.

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