/sci/ - Science & Math

Couple of my silly thoughts around this subject:

In the beggining time flew quicker as there was less stuff to calculate.

Let's assume we can not test directly if we are living inside an artificial world, but someone might be watching. Should we make a giant fire to get "their" attention? How would we go about it? Would we need to be on the level of destroying entire galaxies? Or pray to the right god?

You can throw a kid into a basement and remove all contact to the outside world. When it grows up it will consider the basement as the entirety of existence.
So you don't really need the ability to simulate in order to have worlds within worlds. Our world can be just a prison, a livestock pen, an enclousure inside something bigger without us knowing. No simulation hypothesis needed.

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I'm not a believer, but I'm also not dismissing this hyphothesis. It is at least a nice thought experiment. Ideas don't need to be falsifiable or even true, to be useful: Russell's teapot, multiverse, string theory.