Do you believe we live in a simulation?

[Ronnie McNutt]

the theory itself sounds so ridiculously retarded that me personally can't buy myself into it

 

[WeWuzFinns]

Druggies came up with this theory after having their brains buck broken by LSD.

 

[Idiotron]

Is it really that retarded?
We're creating more and more realistic graphics and more advanced AI all the time.
At some point, assuming we don't destroy each other, we will reach complete imitation of real life.
When that happens, we will create more imitations than one, we will create a lot of imitations.

Given that there is only one reality and a possible endless amount of imitations, it's more likely that we live in an imitation than the one reality.

 

[SofondaCox]

It wouldn't particularly surprise me.

 

[BONE_Buddy]

Druggies came up with this theory after having their brains buck broken by LSD.

Worse than that. It's the re-invention of Intelligent Creation and thereby Theism by smug "I Fucking Love Science" Atheists.

 

[The Cunting Death]

No because I would have broken out by now

 

[Uncle Sid]

Running on a 386 with no math co-processor.

 

[Wormy]

Not really, but it's got more behind it than a lot of accepted religions.

 

[Character from a movie]

You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.
You take the red pill... you sneed, feed and seed. Formerly Chuck's.

 

[Puff]

It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not and it's unfalsifiable since if the simulation is good enough you couldn't tell.
Hell, if the simulation is shit, you couldn't tell because that's just the world you live in.
It's a dumb and useless theory. A distraction for armchair philosophers to jerk off to.

 

[Shig O'nella]

If and possibly do a fuckton of heavy lifting in these sorts of questions, to hide the point that if "this isn't real" then you can't be held responsible for your actions.

In the end though, does it matter? Simulated or real, you're still only getting one shot at it and it is all on you.

@Puff beat me to it. Teach me to stop and make a brew half way through writing.

 

[Manul Otocolobus]

I'd seriously question the coding ability of any being that wrote a simulation this shitty.

 

[thyme]

Got me in a catch-22. I feel it is reductionist and narrow-minded to place ourselves and our perception as the center of the universe by presuming we are significant enough to be put into a simulation, but on the same hand wouldn't it also be reductionist and narrow-minded to discredit the theory on the basis of our own perception being all we know and therefore being reality itself?

Its like arguing whether or not there is a God. It's down to what matters for each individual in the discussion, because the concept itself is beyond our own abilities at this point in time, so all we have is speculation and simalcrum.

 

[SPhobos]

gay

 

[Doji]

Kinda wish we did because this is all horseshit.

 

[Named User]

A simulation of what? As opposed to what exactly? This is where we live, isn't it?

 

[Depressed_Oni]

If we do this is one depressing ass simulation

 

[MadStan]

Would it matter if it was a simulation?

 

[Death Grip]

In my more insane moments, I ascribe to the theory, that we are all ethereal beings who have broken the rules of the ethereal dimension and are put into physical forms as a punishment.
We are all in a prison with no way of escape until we have served our time.
Try to leave early (i.e suicide) it's back to beginning to start all over again.
But most of the time this isn't actually something I genuinely believe.

 

[独人13]

You take the red pill... you sneed, feed and seed. Formerly Chuck's.

You take the red pill... and then you wake up in a website called "New Zealand" Farm