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Are you living in a computer simulation?

by abhinavstarts on 11/25/23, 10:57 AM with 3 comments

• by ada1981 on 11/25/23, 11:28 AM

  A year ago I had OpenAI GPT create a meditation sequence for communicating with the Simulators of the Simulation.

  Weird things ensued.

  https://open.spotify.com/artist/78oONqh9wRUf2QzcpFhTCr?si=O5...

• by haltist on 11/25/23, 11:07 AM

  I'm not but a lot of people are living in simulations of one sort or another. If your information diet is algorithmic then you are essentially living in a simulation.

  I recommend going outside and taking a stroll around your neighborhood if you want to see what it is like to live outside the confines of algorithmic feeds.

• by latexr on 11/25/23, 2:10 PM

  The abstract’s wording inspires zero confidence:

  > This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) (…) very likely (…) (2) (…) extremely unlikely (…) (3) (…) almost certainly (…)

  There’s more hedging than in the royal gardens. It’s meaningless to assert that something which may or not happen is true.