I would just keep living my life, it’s not actionable information for me.
Agree. It’s a lot like the ‘free will’ exercise to me-- an interesting thought experiment that AFAIK doesn’t help too much in the actual living of a life.
Also, I propose that we arguably already know that we’re living in a simulation, and it makes no real difference. I.e., we’ve identified the wave-vs-particle effect, the four forces of the universe, a bunch of physical and chemical laws, and are continually refining our understanding of it all, via science, and possibly even metaphysics.
But far as we know, it’s all just building blocks, dimensions, and laws so to speak. A super-amazing simulation as it were. What’s wrong with that?
It wouldn’t change anything because this is the reality we have. I wouldn’t suddenly become immoral because there are still consequences and even if some people or even everyone but me is not real, they will still react as though they have emotions. If I hurt my wife, she would still cry. If I did something bad enough, she might divorce me. Take half my stuff. Lose some access to my kids. Those are all real consequences even if the people are simulated.
Maybe I’d be less concerned for people not immediately around me because any good simulation wouldn’t actually sim everything out of range, so there wouldn’t e.g. be Palestinians starving to death if no one “real” was there.
I suppose it would re-open the question of existence beyond death, but I don’t think I would ultimately come to a different conclusion—there is no reason to think this experience would continue past my own death, and if I were memory-wiped and re-inserted it wouldn’t really be the same me anyway, right?
If it were matrix-style there is a reality out there to experience if I can leave the simulation, I’d have some hard thinking to do about whether that would be likely to be a better existence than the one I’m having here.
Great point! I never find this line of questioning interesting for this reason. It doesn’t change anything
I would have Morpheus upload Kung Fu into my brain.
“Dammit, I hit the wrong file, you now know fung ku”
Try to access the help or stats menu.
↑↑↓↓←→←→BA START
Sorry, does nothing mid game. You have to enter the code from the start screen to get your 30 lives.
And even then, imagine having to live in this universe 30 more times.
I subscribe to the Barenaked Ladies philosophy on life.
Time to figure out how to do some prompt injection
Try the ESC key.
ALT + F4
If I can’t determine what lies beyond the veil, then nothing much changes, does it?
If I’m presented with a beautiful utopia, or just another world that’s not a hellscape that lies beyond our simulation, and then am thrust back into the simulation, then I guess I’d be less afraid of death. If I’m presented with a hellscape, then I guess I’m more scared of death.
However, if I could somehow be convinced that this is all just a simulation, but can’t see what lies beyond in what is actual reality…then that’s just like…knowing there’s an afterlife, but not knowing if it’s better or worse than this plane of existence, so it’s practically worthless information.
player.additem f 999999999
Is immediately crushed under the weight of their inventory.
Dammit. I forgot we were in survival mode
Nothing changes does it?
Also I’m not sure if I’d me more or less scared of death. If this is a simulation, to escape reality, I can’t imagine how terrible reality would really be.
It would be an interesting fact, and I’d want to study the hell out of it, but it doesn’t really change anything if nothing can be done about it.
I think a lot of unhappy people would exit the simulation… :)
I’d give the sky the finger and then spend too much time wondering what perspective we’re even being viewed from.
I’d also probably start a diary, except every entry would be: “Fuck you people for creating a world like this. Do you enjoy the suffering of countless people? Turns out God really is a prick.”
Remember that I’m a nihilist and shrug my shoulders.
Then start to think about how everyone else is going to react and how I’ll need to plan for that.
Then start to think about how everyone else is going to react and how I’ll need to plan for that.
yeah that’s an interesting consideration.
Noclipping into the Backrooms.
Well, thats the objectively wrong answer
why would you do that?
I think that one of two items would be pretty prominent for humanity:
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First, if we know not just that it is a simulation but that this brings some knowledge of how the simulation’s physics work that differs from our previous non-simulation understanding, how to make use of those properties.
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Second, figuring out how to “break out”, how to influence the world in which the simulation is being run.
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