Literally @EricRWeinstein's entire life is reverse-engineering the stack and trying to figure out what's up with our install parameters
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I mean, what's the fundamental difference between a "simulation" and whatever it is that a god is supposed to make? Matter is compute The real question is "God: jock, or nerd?"https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/1255180932132167680 …
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Anyone who's not long on simulation religions needs to take a step back and remember what kind of human being tended to accumulate power back when we were coming up with gods that sent fires and provided fish
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Isn’t Descartes’ Cogito a rebuttal to the simulation thing? Unless the idea is that our self aware mind is also just a coded part of the simulation.
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"wtf is consciousness" is a whole separate issue, but we're still generally operating on the assumption that biology is a substrate for it, and biology is essentially just chemistry, and chemistry is essentially just physics, and all of it is just matter serving as compute
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If you drop God out of the equation - arguably one layer of complication too many, for a simulation-ist - then of the world religions, simulation “theory” maps really well onto one in particular: Buddhism, teaching “reality” as a kind of consensus hallucination of sentient beings
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You're right. We may be in a sim, and its creator is our "God". Who knows. That's not the interesting consideration. What's interesting is the existence of anybody's *particular* God. "God" may exist, but it doesn't necessarily follow that Papa Tetragrammaton does.
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*IF* we're in a sim, it's very different from typical conceptions of God. What's the sim's purpose? Without knowing, I can't even try to align my life with the sim creator's will. Knowing I'm in a sim has zero effect on how I choose to live.
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Pretty sure she’s a tween playing her world’s “roller coaster tycoon”
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