I want to say this applies to PC Gaming...

[Paul Rudd]

How are we absolutely certain that our lives are not existing in a computer simulation?

 

 

[PlayStation 2]

If we're in a computer simulation, then some sadist must've made this because, well, the Chevrolet HHR and the Buick Encore exist.

[DAVdaBRAV]

The solution to the Fermi paradox could very well be that we're in a simulation.  There being no need to simulate extra civilizations for the purposes of our simulation.

[Damien19721508]

7 hours ago, Intransigent said:

How are we absolutely certain that our lives are not existing in a computer simulation?

 

 

Its a good question, I mean that could be why we have ancient alien drawings on old manuscripts and things possibly why we have large monuments so large like the stones of the stone henge which scientists say were way to big to be moved but somehow it was done, possibly just done by our server admins haha just to fuck with us or just early creations they felt like testing out, possibly the reason why humans seem so OP over the rest of the species maybe someone bumped our intelligence cap up to 11 and let us run wild to see what would come from us, possibly we are AI that someone is simulating on a system and they are waiting for us to solve a problem for them before they reset us.

Im rambling at this point but its an interesting thought haha.

[Bramimond]

It's kind of a loaded question. We have no way of attaining that type of knowledge, since we'd have to perceive things outside of the universe, which is - for various reasons - impossible. One of them being that everything we can perceive is by definition inside our universe.

 

My argument against the assumption involves invoking Occam's Razor. Also, it just moves the question as to the origin of everything one level of indirection away, so it's ultimately a pointless assumption from which we gain nothing but wasted CPU cycles thinking about it.

[Damien19721508]

25 minutes ago, Bramimond said:

It's kind of a loaded question. We have no way of attaining that type of knowledge, since we'd have to perceive things outside of the universe, which is - for various reasons - impossible. One of them being that everything we can perceive is by definition inside our universe.

 

My argument against the assumption involves invoking Occam's Razor. Also, it just moves the question as to the origin of everything one level of indirection away, so it's ultimately a pointless assumption from which we gain nothing but wasted CPU cycles thinking about it.

I like how you added in the end its just as good as wasting cpu cycles as if we are really in a simulation even though we could be.

[xreaperx22]

for one someone would have figured it out,i mean if your going by the movies like matrix or truman show,someone always finds out,and the tech needed for such a thing would be unthinkable,but it would be just as easy to say we were an alien's science experiment that grew too big,where god the creator being the alien in question,he used to micro manage us then we multiplied 50 fold lol then he bailed but not before trying to thin our numbers by drowning,then multiplied again and he said screw this....lol not sure why i went there but yeah.

[Guest]

 

[zassou]

just watched an episode of doctor who, which tells a story of people live in a simulation. one way people figure this out is telling others say random numbers, and everyone say the same number, because computer isnt very good at creating random numbers. it's somewhat true, without outside events as "seeds", computer can only generate false random numbers.

[Damien19721508]

On 8/11/2019 at 12:49 PM, zassou said:

just watched an episode of doctor who, which tells a story of people live in a simulation. one way people figure this out is telling others say random numbers, and everyone say the same number, because computer isnt very good at creating random numbers. it's somewhat true, without outside events as "seeds", computer can only generate false random numbers.

Well that already happens most magicians rely on tricks like if you ask someone to think of a random color amd they say red they usually then say think of a random tool and the person will answer hammer they also do it with vegetables they say think of a random color the say now think of a vegetable amd most people reply with carrot its weird how a large group of people have the same random colors and tools and vegetables always its like what you are saying about the false randoms 

[Princess Luna]

On 8/10/2019 at 12:02 AM, Intransigent said:

How are we absolutely certain that our lives are not existing in a computer simulation?

Because life's boring and hardworking as hell, if some superior species could make such sophisticated simulation why the hell make it so "real life"

[Ezzy-525]

On 8/11/2019 at 11:49 AM, zassou said:

just watched an episode of doctor who, which tells a story of people live in a simulation. one way people figure this out is telling others say random numbers, and everyone say the same number, because computer isnt very good at creating random numbers. it's somewhat true, without outside events as "seeds", computer can only generate false random numbers.

"computer isn't very good at creating random number"

 

That's only our understanding of computers. If it were a simulation, we would have no way of knowing if "computers" follow the same basic principles outside of our perception of reality. It could be a bug in our "simulation" that computers are finicky when it comes to random numbers. We just don't know.

[DoctorNick]

E8 - Do I need to say anything else?

[minibois]

Uhh, yeah Elon. Of course we are living in a computer simulation, a terrible version of the Sims (or at the least the player controlling me sucks ass):