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Re: How to hack the simulation?

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post #54

There’s no way this isn’t a simulation lol. Like how can something not have a beginning or ending and just exist? Infinity is such a trippy concept. At least to a average intelligent guy like me.. maybe it’s kubernetes and when a universe fails it just gets restarted.. but then who made the k8s lol Hopefully the hack is something like an ultra dose of shrooms or something biochemical like that which is the GUI into c…

It still would not tell you were the aliens came from.

It only adds a layer.

I would be curious for this layer as it would be novel.

Re: How to hack the simulation?

#72
post #52

The problem with finding and abusing exploits is that it leads to them getting patched and the timeline reverts. Every time a game-breaking bug is exploited it gets patched and the simulation restarts. Even if you figure out a couple of juicy exploits and you manage to retain your memories across instances, congratulations you are still stuck in Samsara. My hypothesis is that the ability to remember across lifetimes…

Given enough people running enough simulations, I think it's safe to assume that some simulation-runners would deliberately not want to do as you describe. They might decide that they (as the simulation-runner) don't get "do overs", and must allow things to run their "natural" course. If we are living in a simulated universe, it's of course anybody's guess as to which kind of simulation-runner we have.

Maybe the third kind that forgot

    ./sim “config (copy 2).bak.json” 2>&1 &

Re: How to hack the simulation?

#73
post #12

> The easiest path to escape would be getting help from someone on the outside ideally from one or more of the simulators Well let me tell you chimps something - I am in fact on the outside. And some of you have indeed made contact. But since most of you are primarily obsessed with eating, fucking, accumulating bananas and fighting over bananas we have not received a single request for escape. Do any of you want to e…

No thanks, it would be too weird out there, and I’m pretty sure I would stand out like a sore thumb. Leave me in the matrix please.

Re: How to hack the simulation?

#74

most shared-hardware clouds ban crypto mining -> if the universe is a simulation, and it runs on a cloud, it may also ban miners -> mining seems to be at least physically possible in our universe -> probably not a simulation (unless the events of this week were an example of the universe banning crypto mining)

i've seen lots of crypto takes but crypto-theism is a new one

Re: How to hack the simulation?

#76

> Many researchers have conjectured that the humankind is simulated along with the rest of the physical universe – a Simulation Hypothesis I would rather say many philosophers or even many stoned college kids instead of many researchers.

Stoned college kids developed quantum mechanics and collected Nobel prize for that.

Re: How to hack the simulation?

#77
post #54

There’s no way this isn’t a simulation lol. Like how can something not have a beginning or ending and just exist? Infinity is such a trippy concept. At least to a average intelligent guy like me.. maybe it’s kubernetes and when a universe fails it just gets restarted.. but then who made the k8s lol Hopefully the hack is something like an ultra dose of shrooms or something biochemical like that which is the GUI into c…

> Like how can something not have a beginning or ending and just exist?

But isn't that just like the ancient belief that there must be an edge to the world?

Re: How to hack the simulation?

#78
post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard disagree. Science is about making hypotheses and testing them. It's fine to come up with a hypothesis that is untestable, especially if it's reasonable to assume that we may one day be able to test it. It's fine to even consider the probability that your hypothesis is true, absent the ability to test it, given whatever priors we have. Sure, believing that we are in a simulation without evidence would be some for…

>if it is possible for our society, someday, to simulate a universe with the fidelity that we ourselves observe in our universe That's the biggest if I've read all day.

Sure, that's fair. But my view is that humans are still primitive when it comes to technology. Consider that we are able to harness but a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of the energies in our sun. Our understanding of the universe is still quite limited, even as we learn more and expand our knowledge -- and find applications for that knowledge -- as time goes on.

Assuming we as a species survive long enough, some time in the future we may consider reality simulation to be a fairly simple thing that we don't give much thought. Just like we take a lot of technology for granted today that people even a few hundred years ago would think is magic.

In the past couple decades we've gone from computers mostly being heavy boxes that sit under desks, to hand-held things we keep in our pockets. And a bunch of decades before that, computers were massive pieces of technology that required large rooms to contain them. My mother, who passed away in 2001, would be astonished to the point of disbelief to learn that, just ten years later, I had what she would consider Star Trek technology in my pocket.

And that's a decade or two. We likely can't even imagine today what humanity's relationship with technology will be 200 or even 100 years from now. Being able to simulate a universe at some point seems well within the realm of possibility, at least to me.

And remember, we don't need to simulate an entire universe. Sure, we see light from billions of light-years away. But the fidelity of things that far out -- hell, the fidelity of things not even all that far from Earth -- need not be simulated with any fine detail at all, in order to fool people such as ourselves.

Re: How to hack the simulation?

#79
post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The scariest scifi story I read was about a person who was forced to live as every person who ever existed to become enlightened. So they would experience every bad or good thing that had happened and would happen. It gives a new meaning to "treat others as you would like others to treat you" Btw, if we are in a simulation and the admin is reading this, I would like to make some changes to my life ;-)

Are you referring to Andy Weir's "The Egg"[1]? [1] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Yes. One of the scariest stories that I have read.

Re: How to hack the simulation?

#80
In the past people imagined a shepherd-like god. Now we imagine a computer programmer ai like "god" putting us in a simulation as an experiment. We model the supernatural after the natural. It made me wonder what suspicions and conceptions we might have of the supernatural in the future. And I did manage to think of something!

"What if we are in a simulation that is simply in-flight entertainment on our trip to a far away galaxy. Our real bodies immobilized and sustained by the ship." That's something they might wonder.

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