Chatterbox Wednesday

Couple of weeks ago I dreamt I was in a meeting with Trump, last week I was in a meeting with Michael Jackson. My subconscious is pretty much fucked isn't it. Mind you Jackson was white, even though dreaming I knew something was wrong. I now realise it was a simulation breakdown.

I've been to slough. Didn't see any aliens but I was just changing trains.

*winks at Tuffers*

Yeah yeah, tell it to the judge!

Good Morning Everyone!

The problem with the simulation idea is that in a successful simulation that does not want its inhabitants to know they're in a simulation, it's very difficult to see that a testable hypothesis to prove or disprove it could be conceived (and the same holds true in the "real" universe.

If you use simulation as an explanatory factor to help understand the universe (e.g. to explain away the Fermi paradox) then you're left with an understanding without any real intellectual basis, and which doesn't actually help to understand the universe. It's as intellectually spurious as the God explanation.

Even if we were to be convinced that we're in a simulation, I'm not sure what use we could put that to. The knowledge wouldn't make the blood on my hands less real, it wouldn't close up the wounds in their chests and faces, and it wouldn't mute the sirens speeding this way. In short, we still have to inhabit this world, are bound by its physics and its reality, regardless of whether it's a simulation. I'm not sure what I should be doing differently because I might be in a simulation.

It might be that the tendencies of technological development have an answer for both this and the Fermi paradox. Perhaps any civilisation capable of inventing computers and sending messages into space inevitably soon after kills itself in a nuclear holocaust or similar. Or perhaps in order to have the technological capability and survive, a civilisation must be sensible and enlightened enough not to run simulations which create sentient self-aware beings.

It might be that creating consciousness is hard, and can't be done on a computer, but requires chemical inputs also. In which case any self-aware consciousness could be assured that it isn't running on a simulation (or, at least, that the simulation doesn't allow deeper layers of simulation of consciousness.)

In essence, the simulation idea is a minor philosophical diversion that quickly runs into dead ends, and has little real intellectual substance or value.

We can only hope.

The simulation types are all techbro idiots who think your brain can be simplified to just being a big computer that we know all the physical laws behind. But consciousness is still completely unexplained by that. As sheggers was saying its just one of a myriad of 'we don't actually understand much of anything' theories you could interchange with God or Wiggler Wednesday.

Simulation

It's actually just the simulation doesn't devote enough resources to simulate Shenguin perfectly. That is why he is lacking emotional routines and an understanding of how simulations work.
He is an early Weyland model.

Sheep has bought a washer and dryer?!?

Why does he hate Greta?

It's more the other people at the flats.
The managing agent sent a snotty note round last month telling people they are not allowed to dry clothes outside. Someone had complained about it.
It seems ridiculous to me particularly in this weather.

I have gone for an A rated model. But I intend to run it 24/7 to make up for that.

I think you've quoted the wrong post. Difficult to be certain. 

If he thinks your name is Mr Chumbles no wonder you're only getting half the prescription. That {redacted} lad is getting the rest.