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Re: The simulation hypothesis

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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.

-- 
Hasbro

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The simulation hypothesis Creon <creon@creon.earth> - 2022-11-09 18:11 +0000
  Re: The simulation hypothesis "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2025-07-20 20:07 -0500
    Re: The simulation hypothesis Creon <creon@creon.earth> - 2025-07-21 06:27 +0000
      Re: The simulation hypothesis Creon <creon@creon.earth> - 2025-07-21 06:30 +0000
      Re: The simulation hypothesis "Lane \"Stonehowler\" Waldby" <wichitajayhawks@msn.com> - 2025-07-21 01:35 -0500

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