If all life is just a simulation designed to test a specific theory what is the theory?

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emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 7 pts · 175d
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 (3 replies)

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 (1 reply)

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 (1 reply)

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