Like, the idea that an entity simulating our universe wouldn’t be able to do that, because they’d run out of energy doesn’t pass even the basic sniff test.
I’m convinced you are not actually reading what I’m writing. I said if the universe ours is simulated in is supposed to be like our own/we are an ancestral simulation then this implies that the universe simulating ours should be like ours, and we can apply our laws of physics to it, and our laws of physics say there’s entropy, or a limit to the amount of order.
I also believe that if we’re a simulation, then the universe simulating ours must be very different than ours in fundamental ways, but this tells us nothing specific about that universe. And it implies that there could be no evidence, ever, of being in a simulation. Just like there could be no evidence, ever, of a god, or a flying spaghetti monster, or whatever other thought experiment you have faith in.
What I am trying to say is that you need a level of complexity to sufficiently trick intelligent beings in to not thinking they’re in a simulation, and that humans could not create such a simulation themselves.
If you aren’t postulating a soul, then we are nothing but complicated lighting and meat, meaning that we are entirely feasible to simulate.
Key word: complicated. Wrong word: feasible. I think you mean possible. Yes we are possible to simulate, but feasible implies that it can readily be done, which is exactly what I’m arguing against. Go read up about computer science, how simulations actually work, and physics before you start claiming things are feasible when they’re currently impossible and certainly difficult problems that may only be feasible to the entirety of humanity working together for centuries.
It’s even more bizarre to see you say that the claim of simulation makes no predictions, in response to me pointing out that it’s prediction (just us in the observable universe) is the reason to believe it.
The prediction something makes is never the reason to believe something. The confirmation of that prediction is the reason to believe something. You cannot prove that whatever prediction the simulation makes is true, therefore there is not a rational reason to believe we are in a simulation. This is the foundation of logic and science, I urge you to look into it more.
The lack of aliens isn’t proof of anything (absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence).
It’s super aggravating that if you already understood that we can’t know anything about the (universe simulating ours / the mighty God who created us / the inscrutable machinations of the Spaghetti Monster who cooked the broth of our creation) you go on these long tangents about what they could and could not do.
You do it again with regard to simulating humans. Yes, it would be tough to do now. Easier in the future. By definition a cakewalk for the unknowable entity responsible for doing it right now with me and you. Since you understand that we have no knowledge of the mind responsible for our creation, why do you go on about how tough it must be for it?
Look, in regards to evidence, you get this in your day to day life. You must, you are a living being. If there are no muddy footprints in your hallway then your toddlers didn’t run down it.
Earth’s complexity in a vastly more simple universe is the same as the coin that flips heads a googleplex times. Earth is weird (should I steal your cool habit of using italics on important words for weird?). The absence of other things like it in our light cone is evidence that there is a hidden variable. (In the same way that me guessing your card more than 1⁄52 of the time is evidence that you are missing the trick)
In every other case we can set up or find where this situation is roughly analogous (watchmaker is the classic), the answer is that the experimenter is to blame. He put the watch in the desert, the other rocks are less complicated not because of chance, but because they weren’t put there by a civilization that can make watches.
If you are still hung up on how hard it will be to simulate our minds, then just imagine that our simulations are simpler than us, ok? They can only hear, and time goes slower. There are only ten people in their whole universe, whatever. Point is, that when they ask this question, the ‘right’ answer for them to come to is that they have a creator. That’s also the right answer for us to come to.
So far you’ve told me to read up on computer science, and ‘the foundation of logic and science’. My turn I guess? Keep a diary for a day or two, you’ll be surprised at what you already know. Don’t fence off your common sense from your commenting. You know how evidence works.
I’m convinced you are not actually reading what I’m writing. I said if the universe ours is simulated in is supposed to be like our own/we are an ancestral simulation then this implies that the universe simulating ours should be like ours, and we can apply our laws of physics to it, and our laws of physics say there’s entropy, or a limit to the amount of order.
I also believe that if we’re a simulation, then the universe simulating ours must be very different than ours in fundamental ways, but this tells us nothing specific about that universe. And it implies that there could be no evidence, ever, of being in a simulation. Just like there could be no evidence, ever, of a god, or a flying spaghetti monster, or whatever other thought experiment you have faith in.
What I am trying to say is that you need a level of complexity to sufficiently trick intelligent beings in to not thinking they’re in a simulation, and that humans could not create such a simulation themselves.
Key word: complicated. Wrong word: feasible. I think you mean possible. Yes we are possible to simulate, but feasible implies that it can readily be done, which is exactly what I’m arguing against. Go read up about computer science, how simulations actually work, and physics before you start claiming things are feasible when they’re currently impossible and certainly difficult problems that may only be feasible to the entirety of humanity working together for centuries.
The prediction something makes is never the reason to believe something. The confirmation of that prediction is the reason to believe something. You cannot prove that whatever prediction the simulation makes is true, therefore there is not a rational reason to believe we are in a simulation. This is the foundation of logic and science, I urge you to look into it more.
The lack of aliens isn’t proof of anything (absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence).
It’s super aggravating that if you already understood that we can’t know anything about the (universe simulating ours / the mighty God who created us / the inscrutable machinations of the Spaghetti Monster who cooked the broth of our creation) you go on these long tangents about what they could and could not do.
You do it again with regard to simulating humans. Yes, it would be tough to do now. Easier in the future. By definition a cakewalk for the unknowable entity responsible for doing it right now with me and you. Since you understand that we have no knowledge of the mind responsible for our creation, why do you go on about how tough it must be for it?
Look, in regards to evidence, you get this in your day to day life. You must, you are a living being. If there are no muddy footprints in your hallway then your toddlers didn’t run down it.
Earth’s complexity in a vastly more simple universe is the same as the coin that flips heads a googleplex times. Earth is weird (should I steal your cool habit of using italics on important words for weird?). The absence of other things like it in our light cone is evidence that there is a hidden variable. (In the same way that me guessing your card more than 1⁄52 of the time is evidence that you are missing the trick)
In every other case we can set up or find where this situation is roughly analogous (watchmaker is the classic), the answer is that the experimenter is to blame. He put the watch in the desert, the other rocks are less complicated not because of chance, but because they weren’t put there by a civilization that can make watches.
If you are still hung up on how hard it will be to simulate our minds, then just imagine that our simulations are simpler than us, ok? They can only hear, and time goes slower. There are only ten people in their whole universe, whatever. Point is, that when they ask this question, the ‘right’ answer for them to come to is that they have a creator. That’s also the right answer for us to come to.
So far you’ve told me to read up on computer science, and ‘the foundation of logic and science’. My turn I guess? Keep a diary for a day or two, you’ll be surprised at what you already know. Don’t fence off your common sense from your commenting. You know how evidence works.