Unless there is additional context like how to communicate with the outside world there's not really reason to change anything. Even if the life I love and the bonds I've created are "fake" it doesn't mean they're not worthwhile.
But if it's something like the controllers of the simulation are actively making things worse or refusing to improve things then that's different.
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?
Does it mean anything in itself to be in a simulation?
I don't really see how that would change anything in my day to day life.
Try to hack it. Would love some infinite resource bug.
You missed your chance. It was called the Chase infinite money glitch.
Lol, what if the real world has infinite resources but only the simulation we are in has things like the absence of perpetual energy because otherwise the system would crash 🤣
They say I can do magic, what I can do is anything.
Fuzzing inputs until I find a buffer overflow.
Fuzzing inputs? That's just convulsing. Buffer overflow? It's called a cramp. Stop hurting yourself! 🥺
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.
um. look to reprogram this shit.
Something like this?
L33t haxxors
Make coffee.
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
Buddy we are the NPCs
No, I'm the main character! I've got colorful, spiky hair to prove it!
Umm what happens to the NPC Sims in your world
They turn into ghosts, so they must still be stored somewhere.
It basically comes down to how early is our simulation? Was it refined technology at the time or early pioneering work?
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
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.
Commit 34 felonies and run for president
You're saying Trump is the 'YOLOoooo' president?
Remember that I'm a nihilist and shrug my shoulders.
Then start to think about how everyone else is going to react and how I'll need to plan for that.
Then start to think about how everyone else is going to react and how I’ll need to plan for that.
yeah that's an interesting consideration.
Have you heard of Roko's Basilisk? Basically, if we were in a simulation, it's best not to acknowledge it
Too late.
Nothing changes does it?
Also I'm not sure if I'd me more or less scared of death. If this is a simulation, to escape reality, I can't imagine how terrible reality would really be.
But in the end it doesn't even matter
I'd give the sky the finger and then spend too much time wondering what perspective we're even being viewed from.
I'd also probably start a diary, except every entry would be: "Fuck you people for creating a world like this. Do you enjoy the suffering of countless people? Turns out God really is a prick."
Try to access the help or stats menu.
↑↑↓↓←→←→BA START
Sorry, does nothing mid game. You have to enter the code from the start screen to get your 30 lives.
Time to figure out how to do some prompt injection
Noclipping into the Backrooms.
why would you do that?
I think that two items would be pretty prominent for humanity:
First, if we know not just that it is a simulation but that this brings some knowledge of how the simulation's physics work that differs from our previous non-simulation understanding, how to make use of those properties.
Second, figuring out how to "break out", how to influence the world in which the simulation is being run.
Try the ESC key.
It would be an interesting fact, and I'd want to study the hell out of it, but it doesn't really change anything if nothing can be done about it.
I would have Morpheus upload Kung Fu into my brain.
Is there an option to leave the simulation? And could I come back if I didn't like reality?
If I couldn't come back, I would probably just stay here.
The Thirteenth Floor is a truly under appreciated gem of a movie, FYI
I think a lot of unhappy people would exit the simulation.. :)
Head butting bricks just became a lot more rewarding
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