So you started simulating and torturing both real and sim Jeff. You somehow manage to make the testing facility for real Jeff and sim Jeff exactly the same up to the individual quarks. You also manage to capture every facet of real Jeff’s actions to the individual quarks. Obviously there are certain things you can never test, like how he would react to being brought back from decapitation, or how he would react to seven ducks materializing in thin air before him, but let’s ignore that. You had a streak where they reacted the same for 2.000.000 situations in a row but then they reacted microscopically differently to a phenomena. Now you’ve been having a year long streak of 900.000.000.000 same reactions (measured perfectly thanks to God-like powers), do you stop? If not… when?
I had fun writing this, but it’s kinda missing the point. I’m interested in an objective way of measuring differences in patterns, not a way to exactly copy one person.
Maybe exactly copying a Jeff is impossible, in fact I don’t think we know all the personnality aspects someone can have so for now this task sounds difficult.
But in my opinion, if ” Sim-Jeff ” reacted to the same situation 2 000 000 times but with microscopically differences, it is pointless to keep that detail in mind. As a human being, you can’t perceive those little behavior differences so it is useless to give them importance.
For example, Simulation n°1 320 678 SimJeff is scared and takes a 1 foot step back, Simulation n°1 320 679 SimJeff is scared and takes a 1.000306 foot step back. I think we can consider it’s the same simulation outcome.
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As long as you enter a solid basic data in the computer like ” I’m scared, I take a 1 foot step back and faint ”—the computer tries to simulate the same situation ( trying to match the situation with your souvenirs as most as he can ) and when it comes that close that a human cannot see the difference between the SimYou and You, it can consider the simulation as realistic.
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It reminds me of and experience made. The drawing of a straight line is show to someone and he’s told to draw the exact same one, then his drawing is shown to someone else with the same instructions, everyone tries his best to replicate the line from the person before him but each time they can’t avoid to diverge a bit and when it comes to the 100th guy, the line is all twisted and crooked, even separated in two.
Maybe that is what we are, the 100th simulation of the original us who is way different than who we are now because every simulation diverge a bit in comparison from the previous one. But we’ll hardly ever know it for sure.
So you started simulating and torturing both real and sim Jeff. You somehow manage to make the testing facility for real Jeff and sim Jeff exactly the same up to the individual quarks. You also manage to capture every facet of real Jeff’s actions to the individual quarks. Obviously there are certain things you can never test, like how he would react to being brought back from decapitation, or how he would react to seven ducks materializing in thin air before him, but let’s ignore that. You had a streak where they reacted the same for 2.000.000 situations in a row but then they reacted microscopically differently to a phenomena. Now you’ve been having a year long streak of 900.000.000.000 same reactions (measured perfectly thanks to God-like powers), do you stop? If not… when?
I had fun writing this, but it’s kinda missing the point. I’m interested in an objective way of measuring differences in patterns, not a way to exactly copy one person.
Maybe exactly copying a Jeff is impossible, in fact I don’t think we know all the personnality aspects someone can have so for now this task sounds difficult.
But in my opinion, if ” Sim-Jeff ” reacted to the same situation 2 000 000 times but with microscopically differences, it is pointless to keep that detail in mind. As a human being, you can’t perceive those little behavior differences so it is useless to give them importance.
For example, Simulation n°1 320 678 SimJeff is scared and takes a 1 foot step back, Simulation n°1 320 679 SimJeff is scared and takes a 1.000306 foot step back. I think we can consider it’s the same simulation outcome.
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As long as you enter a solid basic data in the computer like ” I’m scared, I take a 1 foot step back and faint ”—the computer tries to simulate the same situation ( trying to match the situation with your souvenirs as most as he can ) and when it comes that close that a human cannot see the difference between the SimYou and You, it can consider the simulation as realistic.
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It reminds me of and experience made. The drawing of a straight line is show to someone and he’s told to draw the exact same one, then his drawing is shown to someone else with the same instructions, everyone tries his best to replicate the line from the person before him but each time they can’t avoid to diverge a bit and when it comes to the 100th guy, the line is all twisted and crooked, even separated in two.
Maybe that is what we are, the 100th simulation of the original us who is way different than who we are now because every simulation diverge a bit in comparison from the previous one. But we’ll hardly ever know it for sure.