I don’t think that we’re in a simulation, but I do find myself occasionally entertaining the idea of it.

I think it would be kinda funny, because I have seen so much ridiculous shit in my life, that the idea that all those ridiculous things were simulated inside a computer or that maybe an external player did those things that I witnessed, is just too weird and funny at the same time lol.

Also, I play Civilizations VI and I occasionally wonder ‘What if those settlers / soldiers / units / whatever are actually conscious. What if those lines of code actually think that they’re alive?’. In that case, they are in a simulation. The same could apply to other life simulators, such as the Sims 4.

Idk, what does Lemmy think about it?

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    7 months ago

    Exactly. It literally makes no difference if we are or not. So why waste brainpower thinking about it?

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      7 months ago

      Unless this is a prison and the only way out is to die here.

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        7 months ago

        Well we all die eventually. I’m happy to serve a longer sentence and find out a bit later.

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      7 months ago

      Why waste brainpower thinking about anything then? Sorry that’s just a dumb thing to think, personally.

      Who knows what it would mean if we found out.