I would have Morpheus upload Kung Fu into my brain.
“Dammit, I hit the wrong file, you now know fung ku”
It wouldn’t change anything because this is the reality we have. I wouldn’t suddenly become immoral because there are still consequences and even if some people or even everyone but me is not real, they will still react as though they have emotions. If I hurt my wife, she would still cry. If I did something bad enough, she might divorce me. Take half my stuff. Lose some access to my kids. Those are all real consequences even if the people are simulated.
Maybe I’d be less concerned for people not immediately around me because any good simulation wouldn’t actually sim everything out of range, so there wouldn’t e.g. be Palestinians starving to death if no one “real” was there.
I suppose it would re-open the question of existence beyond death, but I don’t think I would ultimately come to a different conclusion—there is no reason to think this experience would continue past my own death, and if I were memory-wiped and re-inserted it wouldn’t really be the same me anyway, right?
If it were matrix-style there is a reality out there to experience if I can leave the simulation, I’d have some hard thinking to do about whether that would be likely to be a better existence than the one I’m having here.
Great point! I never find this line of questioning interesting for this reason. It doesn’t change anything
Have you heard of Roko’s Basilisk? Basically, if we were in a simulation, it’s best not to acknowledge it
Too late.
Noclipping into the Backrooms.
why would you do that?
Well, thats the objectively wrong answer
Try the ESC key.
ALT + F4
Jack off and do fuck all???
Doesn’t change much, at least I know I only live once and afterlife is fake
Being in a simulation would increase the viability of an afterlife. Your program could just be migrated to another “game”
Umm what happens to the NPC Sims in your world
Uhhhh goneeee
Now imagine it being as in-depth as earth
Umm what happens to the NPC Sims in your world
They turn into ghosts, so they must still be stored somewhere.
Buddy we are the NPCs
No, I’m the main character! I’ve got colorful, spiky hair to prove it!
It basically comes down to how early is our simulation? Was it refined technology at the time or early pioneering work?
Turn to the camera and say, “After these messages, we’ll be right back.”
Fuzzing inputs until I find a buffer overflow.
Fuzzing inputs? That’s just convulsing. Buffer overflow? It’s called a cramp. Stop hurting yourself! 🥺
Simulation meaning the universe and everything in it is simulated, including myself? Or like I’m jacked into a simulation Matrix-style?
The former means there’s nothing to do about it. The latter means what I do here is largely irrelevant.
Big difference in response.
um. look to reprogram this shit.
L33t haxxors
Something like this?
Wouldn’t make a difference. The only part that could change my actions would be what hapoens obce it ends. But simulation or no I’m stuck here for however many years and have to make the best of it.
I would just keep living my life, it’s not actionable information for me.
Agree. It’s a lot like the ‘free will’ exercise to me-- an interesting thought experiment that AFAIK doesn’t help too much in the actual living of a life.
Also, I propose that we arguably already know that we’re living in a simulation, and it makes no real difference. I.e., we’ve identified the wave-vs-particle effect, the four forces of the universe, a bunch of physical and chemical laws, and are continually refining our understanding of it all, via science, and possibly even metaphysics.
But far as we know, it’s all just building blocks, dimensions, and laws so to speak. A super-amazing simulation as it were. What’s wrong with that?
Head butting bricks just became a lot more rewarding
Make coffee.
