https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/could-we-force-the-universe-to-crash/
“If we’re all living in a simulation, as some have suggested, it would be a good, albeit risky, way to find out for sure”
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Randonauts
TLDR: A group of people are traveling to completely random places to try and cause “glitches” in the “Matrix” we live in.
It does pose an interesting question: If we are living in a simulation.. can we hack our way out? There was an old Star Trek episode where Captain Picard’s holodeck game “Sherlock” get set at such an extreme difficulty level that Moriarty was smart enough to escape and take over the ship. Fun idea.. but possible? The only way I think it would be possible would be if you could convince a character from the outside to let you out. That’s one of the fears of a contained super-intelligence… humans can’t even make it through the day without being tricked by bogus emails. How long would it take a smart AI to convince them to let it out to “save the world”?
https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/13/elon-musk-the-simulation-video-games/
“We could be somebody’s video game right now. Whose avatar are you?” – Elon Musk
“if reality was a video game, the graphics are great, the plot is terrible and the spawn time is really long.”
.. I think we lost the plot.
“I would say it’s somewhere between 50 and 100 percent. I think it’s more likely that we’re in simulation than not.”
While the article doesn’t build a strong case… it does show the theory is being taken more seriously by intellectuals. It also doesn’t really answer any questions, but raises many. I hope we get at least three lives.
“The click beetles in my backyard don’t notice that they’re surrounded by intelligent beings — namely my neighbors and me,” Shostak said, “but we’re here, nonetheless.”
TL;DR: We are not alone, we just can’t perceive the super intelligent beings around us, just like bugs in the backyard can’t perceive us.
“If you assume any rate of improvement at all, games will eventually be indistinguishable from reality,” Musk said before concluding, “We’re most likely in a simulation.”
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson agrees, giving “better than 50-50 odds” that the simulation hypothesis is correct. “I wish I could summon a strong argument against it, but I can find none,” he told NBC News MACH in an email.
“We would just be observing a fake universe instead of a real one, but not understanding it.”
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Is our world a simulation?
http://digg.com/video/is-our-world-a-simulation
Finally someone tested my theory about building Minecraft within Minecraft.
“Eastern traditions, particularly Buddhist traditions, have long contended that we are living in world of illusion, and that we go through multiple lives trying to work out our individual quests, all of which are stored beyond the “rendered world”. There is a giant system that not only stores this but creates new situations for us to get our “achievements”. Sure sounds like a Video Game to me.”
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Life as a video game
Comical look at a rough interpretation of the “simulation” hypothesis. Doesn’t answer the “why?” though.