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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:01:58 AM EDT
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It is a simulation and God is the programmer. Plato figured this out thousands of years ago.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:04:59 AM EDT
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Do some research on the "Double Slit Experiment with Delayed Data Erasure"
Quantum Mechanics may yet prove we live in some grand simulator. Not saying we do, just open minded enough to entertain the idea until we can resolve what we don't understand. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:05:12 AM EDT
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Do all of you hate this theory because of your religion or because you don't think it's possible?
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:07:43 AM EDT
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Do all of you hate this theory because of your religion or because you don't think it's possible? We live in a giant physics sandbox.....If it's "real" or a "simulation".....What's the difference? |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:07:47 AM EDT
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I'm willing to entertain a lot of delusions and conspiracy theories, but I guess I'm too much of a luddite to buy this one. I'd rank this right up there with flat Earth and we didn't land on the moon stuff.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:09:20 AM EDT
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Dude sounds like a Bond villain more and more. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:13:25 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's got the critical ingredient of the perfect crackpot theory that will keep it from ever dying. It's completely impossible to conclusively disprove. Exactly like religion. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:15:00 AM EDT
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Wait so does this mean the Matrix is a documentary ?
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:17:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So, if we are in the matrix, why can we not do some matrix type shit? People have since forever thought of magic and similar, it seems to be near instinctual for humans to long for more than what is. Magic and otherworldly powers have been themes of every culture for a long long time. More primitive ones yes, but think about this, the belief in magic has become more taboo as our technology increased, and increased exponentionally. Perhaps the ones controlling the matrix tweaked it to work out that way? Mebbe they wanted a 'stronger bread and circues' to keep the Neo down. Perhaps this matrix is hardcoded to prevent those abilities latent within us. Maybe this world is a jail for us. Perhaps we were once a mighty galaxy conquoring species using our powers and this matrix is humanities prison to keep the rest of the universe safe. ........ok time to take my meds again. Maybe the old stories about magic are true, except these were exploits and hacks and the program has been patched. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:17:30 AM EDT
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On an alien planet called Kerbal we are simply a save state in a computer game called "Human Space Program".
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:17:51 AM EDT
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Well if that's the case someone needs to upgrade my life. I want the fine ass good wife/girlfriend, rich guy option added.  No shit. My player needs to get off his ass and buy some tokens or gems or whatever it is that gamers do to get the better characters. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:20:14 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: We live in a giant physics sandbox.....If it's "real" or a "simulation".....What's the difference? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Do all of you hate this theory because of your religion or because you don't think it's possible? We live in a giant physics sandbox.....If it's "real" or a "simulation".....What's the difference?  |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:21:18 AM EDT
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Meh, I've often pondered it as a possibility, maybe not literally but figuratively of our existence. However, if the universe is truly infinite, probability says he's right.
The human problem is our sense of scale is fucked. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:21:26 AM EDT
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Roko's basilisk.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:21:42 AM EDT
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First time I've heard this idea.  It's been around. If you read up on it, you will have to scratch your head.... |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:22:49 AM EDT
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No it isn't. He is a nutcase. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It certainly is a theory to consider. No it isn't. He is a nutcase. It's not his theory. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:23:18 AM EDT
[#17]
..the fuck?
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:23:25 AM EDT
[#18]
See you at the party, Elon
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:23:28 AM EDT
[#19]
Riiight...
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:24:03 AM EDT
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It's not his theory. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It certainly is a theory to consider. No it isn't. He is a nutcase. It's not his theory. This and its been around for a while now. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:24:35 AM EDT
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Is this his way of announcing he will be transitioning genders soon like those dudes who made The Matrix? Just another sign he is going the way of Howard Hughes. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:25:01 AM EDT
[#22]
Drugs are bad, mkay?
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:26:04 AM EDT
[#23]
All we are is dust in the wind, dude.
Dust. Wind. Dude. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:26:19 AM EDT
[#24]
Yo, I heard you like simulations. We put simulations in your simulator, so you can simulate while you simulate.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:28:48 AM EDT
[#25]
Iven smart people prove that they say or believe stupid things.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:31:13 AM EDT
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All I know is when I pay my taxes it's not simulated. I have about 50 projects around the house that need to be done that can attest to that.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:32:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wait so does this mean the Matrix is a documentary ? Not yet, but Idiocracy sure is. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:34:15 AM EDT
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His argument doesn't consider random action.
Can a simulation ever successfully model a truly random event? I mean to the point where the simulation itself has no control over or preknowledge of the outcome. Do truly random events occur in nature? |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:34:34 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No it isn't. He is a nutcase. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It certainly is a theory to consider. No it isn't. He is a nutcase. It's not a new theory and Musk didn't come up with it. There are a lot of really smart people who have talked about it. The article is pure click bait, relying on the predictable Musk-envy to bring readers in. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:36:24 AM EDT
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Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation. If that is the case then progressive liberalism must be a malware virus. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:42:43 AM EDT
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Ok, so lets say this theory is true.
If we develop the exact same thing wont we just be a simulation living in another simulation? Also, if we are just being powered by computers what if something happens to those computers do we just go bye bye? Seems retarded. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:42:50 AM EDT
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Fall of '93 I start college. Live on campus, but really not very far from home.
I recognize faces. Lots of faces. It got to the point where I thought "the program" was was overloaded and had to start recycling graphics. The whole experience was like deja vu times 2356. Then I realized there actually where a handful of kids from the past two years attending the same school and I actually was seeing people that I kinda recognized. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:43:43 AM EDT
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There is no spoon.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:47:58 AM EDT
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Whoever/whatever has made this simulation so "realistic" that right now, some dorito eating mother fucker is running the "sitting on the couch, watching Daniel Tiger with my 3 year old" mini-quest with me.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:48:21 AM EDT
[#35]
Hey I want a bunch of government tax dollars to make me rich too.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:50:43 AM EDT
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40 years ago video games were awesome, one could play for hours and still be entertained, brain activity was increased and kids could imagine.
Now, 40 years later, we have ultrarealistic pieces of shit and kids/adults alike are turned into mindless zombies. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:51:04 AM EDT
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We live in a giant physics sandbox.....If it's "real" or a "simulation".....What's the difference? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Do all of you hate this theory because of your religion or because you don't think it's possible? We live in a giant physics sandbox.....If it's "real" or a "simulation".....What's the difference? This. Though Musk's argument for being in a simulation is weird: "technology has improved greatly over the last 100 years, this must all be fake!!!1!!!eleven!!" I'm not getting the path from A to B. "Since that would lead to games that would be indistinguishable from reality that could be played anywhere, 'it would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in "base reality" is one in billions', Mr Musk said.". The idea of becoming engrossed in and obsessed with some VR experience has been around in fiction for decades (if not longer), I don't grasp how Pong is relevant to Oculus or how this "proves" we're in a simulation. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:54:04 AM EDT
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If my dog puked on the carpet, did it really even happen?
Is the dog simulated? The puke? The carpet? I'm gonna need to know in a hurry. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 10:59:49 AM EDT
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Will someone please stop putting psilocybin mushrooms in the spaghetti that Elon has for dinner each week?
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:04:28 AM EDT
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If I am living in a simulation, how does the programer know how long ATF wait times should be???
May be they were meant to be instantaneous. Or maybe none at all 
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:08:51 AM EDT
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It might explain the quantum nature of our reality.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:09:30 AM EDT
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It's got the critical ingredient of the perfect crackpot theory that will keep it from ever dying. It's completely impossible to conclusively disprove. You mean.. like the idea of God? |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:11:16 AM EDT
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Ah, the anti-intellectual crowd is out in force. Regardless of Musk being a moron or not a moron the simulation idea is neither new nor inherently crazy.
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:13:35 AM EDT
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Mr. Musk could always suck-start a .357 and learn for sure. I don't see how that would prove anything. His thread would just stop executing and go to the create Garbage Collector in the sky. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:23:48 AM EDT
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Ah, the anti-intellectual crowd is out in force. Regardless of Musk being a moron or not a moron the simulation idea is neither new nor inherently crazy. "I don't think so, " said Descartes. He then vanished into thin air. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:25:50 AM EDT
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First time I've heard this idea. lol Yeah, no shit. I thought it was a fun thought experiment when I was in high school about 35 years ago. I'm glad for Elon Musk that he has finally heard of it as well, and thinks it neato. 
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:26:21 AM EDT
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I'm willing to entertain a lot of delusions and conspiracy theories, but I guess I'm too much of a luddite to buy this one. I'd rank this right up there with flat Earth and we didn't land on the moon stuff. Well, if we are in a simulation, we didn't land on the moon and the earth may very well be a very large flat chip. So, you'd be consistent. 
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:27:59 AM EDT
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Do all of you hate this theory because of your religion or because you don't think it's possible? Or perhaps because (1) it's old rehashed stuff that's been around forever. (2) it's non-testable and non-falsifiable, so it's not a "theory" at all. It's just an amusing story and thought experiment. Neat for philosophical discussion or for taking about when stoned, but nothing really beyond that. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:29:32 AM EDT
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This. Though Musk's argument for being in a simulation is weird: "technology has improved greatly over the last 100 years, this must all be fake!!!1!!!eleven!!" I'm not getting the path from A to B. "Since that would lead to games that would be indistinguishable from reality that could be played anywhere, 'it would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in "base reality" is one in billions', Mr Musk said.". The idea of becoming engrossed in and obsessed with some VR experience has been around in fiction for decades (if not longer), I don't grasp how Pong is relevant to Oculus or how this "proves" we're in a simulation. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Do all of you hate this theory because of your religion or because you don't think it's possible? We live in a giant physics sandbox.....If it's "real" or a "simulation".....What's the difference? This. Though Musk's argument for being in a simulation is weird: "technology has improved greatly over the last 100 years, this must all be fake!!!1!!!eleven!!" I'm not getting the path from A to B. "Since that would lead to games that would be indistinguishable from reality that could be played anywhere, 'it would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in "base reality" is one in billions', Mr Musk said.". The idea of becoming engrossed in and obsessed with some VR experience has been around in fiction for decades (if not longer), I don't grasp how Pong is relevant to Oculus or how this "proves" we're in a simulation. Simulation hypothesis In 2003, philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed a trilemma that he called "the simulation argument". Despite the name, Bostrom's "simulation argument" does not directly argue that we live in a simulation; instead, Bostrom's trilemma argues that one of three unlikely-seeming propositions must be true. The trilemma points out that a technologically mature "posthuman" civilization would have enormous computing power; if even a tiny percentage of them were to run "ancestor simulations" (that is, "high-fidelity" simulations of ancestral life that would be indistinguishable from reality to the simulated ancestor), the total number of simulated ancestors, or "Sims", in the universe (or multiverse, if it exists) would greatly exceed the total number of actual ancestors. Therefore, at least one of the following three propositions is almost certainly true: "The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage (that is, one capable of running high-fidelity ancestor simulations) is very close to zero", or "The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero", or "The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one" The argument is sort of similar to arguments you hear about intelligent extraterrestrial life. Sure, we may live in "base reality" and are the only real beings and we're the first to discover how to simulate reality, but if simulated reality is possible and beings capable of creating simulated reality would create it, then there are vastly more virtual beings than real and chances are we're one of the virtual beings. |
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Posted: 6/2/2016 11:29:42 AM EDT
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It certainly is a theory to consider. About as plausible as I am your God. Oh, it's possible.......................but verrrry unlikely. |
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