Maybe some kind of morality calculator. You could monitor the internal self report of every being capable of experience to see if there is something like objective morality.
Lol, I was thinking on that narrative and imagined a hapless scientist accidentally creating freewill/intelligence by not following some instructions on the simulator and one of the key indicators of doing this is the beings eating from the tree of life.
This could be a extremely over engineered simulation for discovering medical procedures and cures.. think about it if you can create a simulation where everything is happening some of those things could cause injuries or illness and some of those things get treated and some of those cases get better.
Personally I believe we are just the imagination of a large language model whose job it is to spit out medical advice to real people.
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emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 7 pts · 175d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies
zabadoh@ani.social · 5 pts · 175d
To find the question. The answer is 42.
Admetus@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 175d
Two versions: Buddhism: escape. Theosophical Buddhism (their ideas): ascend to next stage (post death), roughly 4 more stages to go I think.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 175d
How long until we discover a sandbox escape.
arielbnz@piefed.social · 2 pts · 175d
Escaping the Demiurge's material sandbox.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 175d
For years we were technologically advanced enough but now we arent motives enough, thus trump.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 175d
The rocks we trick into thinking by shooting electricity into them are nothing compared to a system able to calculate all of existence.
makeitwonderful@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 175d
Maybe some kind of morality calculator. You could monitor the internal self report of every being capable of experience to see if there is something like objective morality.
luthis@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 175d
Your questions make me nervous. Have you done this?
And the theory would be that given enough time, life will create the perfect sitcom.
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 175d
Lol, I was thinking on that narrative and imagined a hapless scientist accidentally creating freewill/intelligence by not following some instructions on the simulator and one of the key indicators of doing this is the beings eating from the tree of life.
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 3 pts · 175d
Theory: intelligent life will help the population and planet thrive.
Reality: lol no
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 175d
This point id say how much chaos can exist in the world for it to continue function.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 175d
"Despite everything, can you still be happy?"
The theory for each of us who decides to continue living must hopefully on some level be "yes" or "maybe it doesn't matter"
danhab99@programming.dev · 1 pts · 175d
This could be a extremely over engineered simulation for discovering medical procedures and cures.. think about it if you can create a simulation where everything is happening some of those things could cause injuries or illness and some of those things get treated and some of those cases get better.
Personally I believe we are just the imagination of a large language model whose job it is to spit out medical advice to real people.
einkorn@feddit.org · 1 pts · 175d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jokester