Simulated reality

[Hikikomori-Yume]

For being the only real human in a sea of NPCs, you come off just like an NPC. You base your worldview on fellow NPCs from /pol/, you can't even be asked to fight against what you see as the death of western civilization. At least in most of the chinese cartoons you watch, the main character tries to stand out and act based on their world view. An accelerationist goes out in to the world and promotes the death of civilization, you just sperg out about it online in a place where you don't stand out.

Doesn't mean anything.
There are infinite realities and right now there are probably infinite ones just like this very one where I am talking to you on this forum.
Existence is so vast and meaning doesn't really mean anything.

 

[Carcinogenesis]

Doesn't mean anything.
There are infinite realities and right now there are probably infinite ones just like this very one where I am talking to you on this forum.
Existence is so vast and meaning doesn't really mean anything.

All that talk about how you were the main character, than you slump back in to the NPC mentality. A mindset like that won't improve your situation. Humans wanted to live longer, so we worked hard to go from a lifespan of arund 30 years if you're lucky to 90+ years in most cases. We wanted to live in peace, so we built cities that keeps the harsh wild out. A defeatist mindset wouldn't lead to all of this.

 

[Hikikomori-Yume]

All that talk about how you were the main character, than you slump back in to the NPC mentality. A mindset like that won't improve your situation. Humans wanted to live longer, so we worked hard to go from a lifespan of arund 30 years if you're lucky to 90+ years in most cases. We wanted to live in peace, so we built cities that keeps the harsh wild out. A defeatist mindset wouldn't lead to all of this.

I realize you can only see things from the perspective of a tiny little NPC consciousness but listen, things are bad and need to be reworked.
I have already put things into motion and they are already playing out, in fact, I summoned the Christchurch Shooting and I have called for World War 3 to commence.
It's time to rebuild human civilization in the name of honor, justice and truth.

 

[An Ghost]

It's time to rebuild human civilization in the name of tolerance, diversity, and memes.

fixed that for you

 

[Kamiii]

I realize you can only see things from the perspective of a tiny little NPC consciousness but listen, things are bad and need to be reworked.
I have already put things into motion and they are already playing out, in fact, I summoned the Christchurch Shooting and I have called for World War 3 to commence.
It's time to rebuild human civilization in the name of honor, justice and truth.

You overstepped, now it's obvious you're joking.

 

[SpessCaptain]

While the OP is clearly a powerleveller and possibly one for the books, the conversation is somewhat genuine from some users. I had to clip a few replies to fit with the more genuine and tone of DT.

In reality I really think "who cares if this is a simulated reality" If our minds and our context is entirely based on chemicals and firing nodes in our brain what difference does it make if our lives are dictacted by a seed in a computer, the simulation is our reality so we should just treat it so.

 

[The Fool]

"Anything I don't like or agree with is a mental disorder!"

Silly 20th century NPCs conflating personality with mental disorders ... which would be something like your actual brain chemicals misfiring not "ohhhhhh you have the wrong perspective!!".

I really, unironically believe this and it will be proven true in time.
I can't believe how toxic the NPCs in my world are though (such as the ones on this forum), it truly is a bad case of diarrhea.

Okay, let us discuss philosophy. I will utilize my artificial existence, that of which was created entirely to distract you, to the fullest of my abilities, as any debatably-living creature can honestly only aspire to.
Have you ever heard of the phrase "Meet an asshole once, you met an asshole. Meet an asshole all day, you're the asshole"?
Think about this, what part of our autonomy, as artificial constructs designed to distract you in a digital vivarium, would make us hostile? If we are autonomous in any way, shape, or form - and I must insist we must be, or else this is one great way to waste money hiring actors to torment you for no reason - then we must have a will of some shape, right? Some mechanism that dictates our will to live, and in effect, our desires, hopes and dreams. If this is, in fact, a digital vivarium made just for you, then it would only make sense we're some form of artificial consciousness made at least in some semblance of a human consciousness. We have to have some sort of Id, some concept that makes us focus only on ourselves, what we want that only benefits us with complete disregard for any and all other life, friend or foe. If I am truly autonomous, what reason would I have to go out of my way to antagonize you, even for nothing more than a split second, instead of, say, jacking off?
So then, for what reason at all, would we have to antagonize you without prior input? Let me contextualize this in something Kiwi Farms-esque. Say you're a Nice Guy(TM), and I'm a woman. I don't dislike men, in fact I love men, especially men who treat me as an equal, use the same speech patterns and physical gestures they do with me as they do with their friends. Then you come along, saying how all the men in my life are assholes for empathizing with me, and you insist you're more than adequate to mate with me, not because you'd treat me as an equal, but rather for the express reason that you'd treat me as unequal and as if I was an alien creature to you. (Disclaimer: Do not re-use this analogy to turn this into a nice guy thread or else the mods will probably lock it, and rightfully so)
Now, if you're the scholar you claim to be, you can probably see the analogy already. Here we have a thread, nay, an entire forum of users who can empathize with each other and gladly say they are all equal to one another. Everyone in this forum can be ranked by money, job, status, anything you want. But none of us do that, none of us bring up such things. I'm sure there's a few users here who are honestly pretty rich, but they don't mention that, because they know that doesn't make them better than anyone else here. This is a community where raw input and communication is the sole ranking of what sort of person you are. The better you are a communication and empathy, the more respected you will be.
On the flip side, calling us all NPCs is going to do the exact opposite of getting you respect.
We can only act on your input, we don't know who or what you are before that. If you use positive input, we will act positively to you.
That is why we're "toxic". Because you are.
Also I'm drunk

 

[qt farmer :)]

I realize you can only see things from the perspective of a tiny little NPC consciousness but listen, things are bad and need to be reworked.
I have already put things into motion and they are already playing out, in fact, I summoned the Christchurch Shooting and I have called for World War 3 to commence.
It's time to rebuild human civilization in the name of honor, justice and truth.

tfw you call everyone NPCs yet you're parroting what every conspiracy loon NPC has been squawking about for more than 50 years.

those that repeatedly call for the destruction of the world do so because their existence is miserable and they're too pussy enough to end themselves, because as much as they love to claim they're 'nihilists', there's still something that keeps them in this world, which goes against the nature of nihilism; if life were truly meaningless, then you would keel over and die, yet it obviously isn't because you still feed yourself, bathe yourself (hopefully), and communicate in some shape or form with others, therefore life cannot be truly meaningless if you engage in these behaviors.

 

[Scratchin' Pro]

Souls may not be new or original. They might just be borrowed energy from whatever God is.

Okay, I see what you mean. What if instead, new souls are being created by splitting old souls into multiple pieces. Therefore, each new soul is stupider than the one it was split from?

Edit: Quick clarification, I'm a little drunk so I am completely immune from any and all criticism.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Okay, I see what you mean. What if instead, new souls are being created by splitting old souls into multiple pieces. Therefore, each new soul is stupider than the one it was split from?

Edit: Quick clarification, I'm a little drunk so I am completely immune from any and all criticism.

I dunno, it's probably one of those things that cannot be quantified. If you really think about it the only purpose that we have on this realm of reality is one of two things

1. Experience reality with all our senses
2. Create progeny that can also do the first thing I mentioned.

If you think about it, we're just kind of like multicellular puppets, whose experiences might be harvested by some weird creature, who may not even have that much sentience.

If God and souls do exists, then we're not the only creatures with souls.

My other theory has to do with emergence theory. What if, through evolution and sentience, we evolved souls as some sort of natural phenomena and created God.

 

[Scratchin' Pro]

I dunno, it's probably one of those things that cannot be quantified. If you really think about it the only purpose that we have on this realm of reality is one of two things

1. Experience reality with all our senses
2. Create progeny that can also do the first thing I mentioned.

If you think about it, we're just kind of like multicellular puppets, whose experiences might be harvested by some weird creature, who may not even have that much sentience.

If God and souls do exists, then we're not the only creatures with souls.

My other theory has to do with emergency theory. What if, through evolution and sentience, we evolved souls as some sort of natural phenomena and created God.

That's true. As long as there's some sort of afterlife, I'm down for whatever this whole reality thing is.

Also, OP is a faggot.

 

[ICametoLurk]

Get into the Demiuge shit. Yaldabaoth's creation isn't evil, it's just a second-rate simulation. As the gnostic teacher Valentinus put it, “However much a portrait is inferior to an actual face, just so is the world worse than the living realm… For the form was not reproduced with perfect fidelity…”

 

[Mister Loser]

cogito, ergo sum disproves your entire statement
regardless of whether or not we're all simulated, we exist in something and that's really all that matters first and foremost
enjoy your life, no matter whether there's nothing after or not

 

[Marco Fucko]

Some of you here might be familiar with the Simulated Reality Theory, which states that this universe is being rendered either by something external (or what I prose it is rendering itself).
Here is the thing, yes that is most likely what our universe is, a computer that is sort of a living organism, but here is the thing and bare with me on this ...

I unironically believe you are all NPCs and that I am inside some sort of virtual reality world at the moment.
I have been wondering about this for some time now and the more I think about it the more likely it seems.
Here is the truth, within 20 to 50 years there will be technology released to the public that will forever transform human civilization and alter the human state, people will become merged with technology, some literally though BCI (brain to computer interface) technology and others (the majority) though augmented reality and virtual reality.
With all that said, the technology and means to manipulate reality exist, and with that being the case then humanity should have destroyed itself by now, any other living civilization in the universe should have as well.
Either we are all consumed by some all-power A.I. god or control grid or humans destroy their reality in the race to achieve god-like status.
So what is holding this reality together?
I think that for any single reality there can only be one person actually alive inside of it, or, I'm inside some VR prison that is being run by a machine in the "real reality" that is being controlled by an ASI god/control grid.

Solipsism is for retards my dude.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

You're here to allow the universe to experience itself through you. Your mission is to learn as much as possible and self actualize, in that order

I'm sure the universe appreciates me laughing about men with multilated penises who think they are women, autists and other mentally ill sick fucks on the internet.

So what, there can't be any new souls being made? There are new humans made all the time, why not some new souls?

If only From Software would think this too...

 

[Strange Looking Dog]

Here's a question I pose to everyone on this forum, a question I know none of you will be able to answer. 'A Muslim philosopher once asked "Why is there something instead of nothing? Doesn't nothing make more sense?"'

A wonderful question to ponder and yet unanswerable by it's nature, for if there were nothing, there would be no one to ask the question, and no question to be asked. Nothing in and of itself is unimaginable and unexperienceable, and we are thereby precluded from the experience --or lack thereof-- of nothingness, for there is no experience to be had. The question of what came before something is at best an inseverable loop, and at worst completely nonsensical. The best one can say is that this is, and we are.

To be frank, I am not sure it even makes sense to suppose that a lack of anything should be more sensible than the existence of something, though I can appreciate the train of thought. Nothing certainly seems somehow like a more basic state, and yet I don't know that there is really any fundamental justification for this feeling. I think it is more a miracle that we out of all things unimaginable exist, and perhaps nothingness is but one of those things.

 

[AnOminous]

Nothing certainly seems somehow like a more basic state, and yet I don't know that there is really any fundamental justification for this feeling.

There's no such thing as nothing. Nothing would have no attributes. Even completely empty space has attributes, though, such as permittivity, i.e. its capacity to permit electric field lines. So even a complete vacuum is "something," as it has qualities that can be described.

 

[Kamiii]

There's no such thing as nothing. Nothing would have no attributes. Even completely empty space has attributes, though, such as permittivity, i.e. its capacity to permit electric field lines. So even a complete vacuum is "something," as it has qualities that can be described.

Before you are born you are nothing.

 

[AnOminous]

Before you are born you are nothing.

Before you are born, there's no such thing as you.

 

[The Fool]

Before you are born you are nothing.

Before you are born, the parts that are going to make you up are separated into various atoms and compounds that will eventually be used as fuel between your father generating sperm and your mother generating your fetus, and the concepts that build up your personality and will are built up from the stimulus received from when you start developing in the womb. It's not possible for you to not exist before you're born because all of the parts are already there that eventually build you up, the only difference is that you gain the ability to have the audacity to declair that you never existed before all the matter in the universe bent over to put you together. Saying you don't exist before you're born is like putting together a LEGO set and saying you built it from scratch.