What does universe-is-a-video-game theory give us that universe-is-actually-what-it-seems theory doesn't have?https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/739193563938856960 …
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"We'll let them have video games too (so meta), but only after a few million years."
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But doesn’t provide Musk with his role as hero?
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The video game theory also seems to be just a revision of Berkeley's immaterialism, but with a futuristic computer in place of God
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you would think that if the world was one big simulation we would be doing something more interesting now than reading tweets.
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Why? Most NPCs in games hardly do anything interesting. We might not even be the point of the simulation at all.
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The simulated universe has Occam's razor too.
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ugh. Author doesn't understand and dismisses Bostrom's formulation
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which is more a logical arg rather than living in simulation declaration http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
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Allows tech dudes to imagine their identities as technologists as central to the universe's metaphysics.
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well, except for my goofy Italian stereotype plumber who is obsessed with mushrooms.
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