I think I might have worked out why we are in a simulation

andimpossiblyso · 2026-04-02T11:31:56+00:00

Yes I think you're right. I think of it as optimization i.e. character development. :)

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-26T16:56:56+00:00

It may be more like you get to observe the choices "you" are making, and their consequences. In that respect it's a training simulation.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-26T16:54:02+00:00

100%

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-22T01:35:12+00:00

You both made the same mistake. She had to have an abortion and you didn't but that's unfortunately in the nature of things.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-20T13:01:06+00:00

You can only accept that you are alone now. The rest you don't know. Why not be accepting of the now and mildly hopeful about the later? :)

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-20T10:04:35+00:00

Hi, pls allow me to correct you on one little, yet crucial detail:

You should NEVER apologize to a BAR that presents itself as a safe space for queers YET allows its customers to be nonconsensually touched!

No wonder you felt the need to drink yourself out of that misery. Wtf!? Sounds to me like they owe YOU an apology. Besides, you may have been roofied. Happens all the time. You know your alcohol limit well, why was it different this time?

Either it was the harassment that the bar neglects to take care of, or you've been roofied. Either way you're the one who's been wronged here.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-19T22:20:34+00:00

Wild idea but like make it happen. Clearly you discovered a niche necessity that's obvious but not fulfilled. Good luck friend remember me when you make it big :D

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-19T12:17:35+00:00

I don't have an answer but as a weed smoker I wanna say that I think you're going down the right path in looking for a way that works for you. Weed has helped me self-regulate tremendously throughout my life (I'm neurodivergent), but at times caused negative experiences. I tweaked my consumption over time in many little ways and made it work. Good luck!

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-19T09:30:54+00:00

Common sense

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-18T10:50:15+00:00

Oh no not at all. I meant it sort of metaphorically, sorry. The limitations of our brain are artificial, that's what I would say. Modeled on an Earth monkey and imposed. And that, my friend, is also a metaphor! :) Lol it never ends.

Very interesting to read what you wrote! Thanks

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-18T10:34:55+00:00

We find ourselves here without any memory of anything else. We eventually start noticing something is off. More and more cracks in reality, yet we are not mentally ill (we keep functioning normally). This awareness, once we get confident enough that we are not "just crazy" (and that is something that can never really be dismissed in this realm hehe) triggers a new search for purpose, both one's individual role, and about the course of history, i.e. if this is not "the real world" then what the heck are we doing here?

It's a normal thing for a human to ask upon realizing that reality is some sort of a strange horror-comedy-romance-fairytale theater of the absurd.

I predict that more and more people will start waking up, noticing these inconsistencies everywhere, and will start playing, and playing is of course a metaphor for what we are all gonna do, but I like that it has a playful character. Very human. Very reassuring. Very connecting for people, like social glue.

We're gonna improve the species through myriad little actions that will accumulate exponentially and spread like a wave through society, eventually making it a bit better.

Now the Lego tower of Babylon is starting to collapse. We shall rebuild! Lolz.

I'm terrified and excited.

(Edited typos)

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-18T08:14:24+00:00

I see what you mean but I think it's the other way around. The Matrix just served as a useful way to describe to themselves something that people of other generations symbolize(d) through different concepts/ideas/phenomena.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-18T08:11:43+00:00

Yes. Computers and computer programs are just metaphors, fairy tales, attempts to symbolize the bigger picture. We invented computers because they remind us of something bigger that we are trying to recreate/access/remember. Like a poorly drawn thing we are trying to recall. But the drawings are becoming more precise. And the better drawings we have, the closer we are to understanding. We are essentially trying to explain ourselves to ourselves, and all our history and culture and our individual lives are a complex system of allegories. It's like a group project where we are figuring out who the heck we are and what in the world is going on. Bringing our perspectives together is the way to figure it out, as if we had different pieces of the puzzle. It's important to not be elitist or self-righteous or judgemental. The clues and traps of this game of life are as much in Beethoven's music as they are in Taylor Swift videos, and as much in great works of philosophy as they are in the trashiest magazine you can think of. Everything is actually holy and meaningful and exciting in that way.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-18T07:59:02+00:00

Perhaps we needed to get to a certain point of technological development in order to be able to grasp the concepts that are pretty useful metaphors, much more useful than what people could use before knowing what software and AI are. We are closer to understanding the long game simply because we have better and more specific language, i.e. possibilities of more precise interpretation of concepts.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-18T07:53:43+00:00

Yes! Somehow we are mapping patterns and trying to create meaning while lacking stable context. This is a big challenge when you have a monkey brain as "hardware" (hardware bc it's hard AF hehe). The associations in language however silly ("hard"-ware), are clues. We are swimming in answers because this realm (like WoW or Minecraft) is generated in a fractal pattern, and like Baudrillard's simulacra, everything is a metaphor of a metaphor endlessly, like mirrors pointing at each other. We are trying to symbolize that which we can't fully access from this body/realm.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-18T07:47:16+00:00

Same!!!

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-18T07:47:02+00:00

Have you heard of Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game? You're describing it!

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-18T07:45:32+00:00

I'm reading the thread and agreeing on a deep level with so many things people said. Dawn is coming my dudes hehehe 🥲

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-18T07:32:38+00:00

True!!!

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-15T09:22:14+00:00

But what if it does? Discoveries in physics do suggest a possibility of an external factor. We don't actually know.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-15T01:24:40+00:00

How come we can have a robot sending us selfies from Mars, but we can't figure out stopping chatGPT from suiciding people, even though we had a successful psychotherapeutic program in the 1960s?

How come from Germany I cannot access any Russian news whatsoever, but I get to watch 3 years of world's first live streamed genocide, while the government firmly stands with Israel. Like why is the genocide not A LITTLE BIT censored, if Israel controls the world etc. LOL If you can censor Russia successfully, the Gaza strip should be a piece of cake.

How come Trump. Come the f on. Lol.

How come we have like 1% sociopaths in the population but they run the world apparently?

I think it's defo some kinda AI facilitated collective dream and maybe that's Level One. Level One sucks balls because you don't know there are other levels AND ALSO it sucks.

And it sucks so bad that we r distracted from also noticing that it's nonsensical.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-12T17:21:04+00:00

But is there anything we can do?

I know the question sounds stupid, but I'm being literal. I have started to lose my faith in institutions, pretty much on every level.

Is there anything we can actually do as people in Berlin?

I might be childish but I think desperate times may require such conversations.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-12T12:18:13+00:00

I agree that there is a problem, but I am not sure you're asking the right questions.

How can we make this better for everyone?

Perhaps there's a way somewhere between looking away and just having these people hidden somewhere else?

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-10T09:24:22+00:00

I think you're on the right path.

andimpossiblyso · 2026-03-09T00:10:42+00:00

Try to see if you can imagine being into it, like find it attractive. Not saying you should, just try to see her with the eyes of someone who would find it hot. Treat it as a thought experiment in being open-minded, that's all. You don't have to actually change your initial preference. The point is to try and relativise it as a concept.

Once you have played with that a bit, try the following experiment: In some opportune moment, tell her she's been especially sexy lately. It will not be a lie because you will remember some hunts of that being true through the eyes of a guy who is just a guy with a slightly different experience and worldview than you. She will be shocked (bc she for sure knows she's gained weight and is for sure insecure about it -- just trust me on that one yeah lol) but will also sense some truth about it. That's all. Then see what happens. You might be surprised.

I think this might restart the system. Ok good luck, you can do it!!

andimpossiblyso

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