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  • The simulation hypothesis

    From Creon@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 9 18:11:29 2022
    XPost: talk.bizarre

    The more I play with AI models, the more I wonder
    what it would take to simulate reality.

    When I'm gaming (usually Elite Dangerous), I'm immersed
    in the environment, much like a person can lose themselves
    in a book. Then I come back to "reality".

    Are people so immersed in this world that they don't remember who
    they are?

    File under: budding artist's childish musings.

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    -Creon

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  • From Lane "Stonehowler" Waldby@21:1/5 to Creon on Sun Jul 20 20:07:52 2025
    XPost: talk.bizarre

    Creon wrote:
    The more I play with AI models, the more I wonder
    what it would take to simulate reality.

    When I'm gaming (usually Elite Dangerous), I'm immersed
    in the environment, much like a person can lose themselves
    in a book. Then I come back to "reality".

    Are people so immersed in this world that they don't remember who
    they are?

    File under: budding artist's childish musings.

    I used to get that way with video games. Probably the last one was
    Ascendancy. Then the critics dogged it so hard it pulled the place mat
    out from under my falling key.

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  • From Creon@21:1/5 to Creon on Mon Jul 21 06:30:29 2025
    XPost: talk.bizarre

    On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 06:27:30 GMT, Creon wrote:

    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:07:52 -0500, Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby wrote:

    Creon wrote:
    The more I play with AI models, the more I wonder what it would take
    to simulate reality.

    When I'm gaming (usually Elite Dangerous), I'm immersed in the
    environment, much like a person can lose themselves in a book. Then I
    come back to "reality".

    Are people so immersed in this world that they don't remember who they
    are?

    File under: budding artist's childish musings.

    I used to get that way with video games. Probably the last one was
    Ascendancy. Then the critics dogged it so hard it pulled the place mat
    out from under my falling key.

    Wow, an answer to my post dated:

    Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:11:29 GMT

    There's a guy that gave a google talk that used polarized filters to
    show weirdness with quantum indeterminancy, and figured that the answers
    to spooky quantim

    quantUm

    mechanical behavior could be found in information
    theory. At one point he says,
    "I think we're living in a simulation."

    There was a bit of scoffing and disbelief, but he does show evidence for
    it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

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  • From Creon@21:1/5 to Lane "Stonehowler" Waldby on Mon Jul 21 06:27:30 2025
    XPost: talk.bizarre

    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:07:52 -0500, Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby wrote:

    Creon wrote:
    The more I play with AI models, the more I wonder what it would take to
    simulate reality.

    When I'm gaming (usually Elite Dangerous), I'm immersed in the
    environment, much like a person can lose themselves in a book. Then I
    come back to "reality".

    Are people so immersed in this world that they don't remember who they
    are?

    File under: budding artist's childish musings.

    I used to get that way with video games. Probably the last one was Ascendancy. Then the critics dogged it so hard it pulled the place mat
    out from under my falling key.

    Wow, an answer to my post dated:

    Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:11:29 GMT

    There's a guy that gave a google talk that used polarized
    filters to show weirdness with quantum indeterminancy, and
    figured that the answers to spooky quantim mechanical behavior
    could be found in information theory. At one point he says,
    "I think we're living in a simulation."

    There was a bit of scoffing and disbelief, but he does show
    evidence for it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

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    -c

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  • From Lane "Stonehowler" Waldby@21:1/5 to Creon on Mon Jul 21 01:35:31 2025
    XPost: talk.bizarre, alt.checkmate

    Creon wrote:
    On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:07:52 -0500, Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby wrote:

    Creon wrote:
    The more I play with AI models, the more I wonder what it would take to
    simulate reality.

    When I'm gaming (usually Elite Dangerous), I'm immersed in the
    environment, much like a person can lose themselves in a book. Then I
    come back to "reality".

    Are people so immersed in this world that they don't remember who they
    are?

    File under: budding artist's childish musings.

    I used to get that way with video games. Probably the last one was
    Ascendancy. Then the critics dogged it so hard it pulled the place mat
    out from under my falling key.

    Wow, an answer to my post dated:

    Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:11:29 GMT

    There's a guy that gave a google talk that used polarized
    filters to show weirdness with quantum indeterminancy, and
    figured that the answers to spooky quantim mechanical behavior
    could be found in information theory. At one point he says,
    "I think we're living in a simulation."

    There was a bit of scoffing and disbelief, but he does show
    evidence for it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

    Pardon me, I'm just being impersonally rude in order that some of the
    oldbies might show themselves like the cockroaches THEY ARE from out of
    the woodwork.

    Science already proved we're not in a simulation. Science doesn't make mistakes it only changes its mind. In ten years they may decide we're
    in a simulation, nothing wrong with that, SCIENCE.

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    Hasbro

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