Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

RadioFreeAmerika t1_jdqd3cw wrote

Let's assume that our reality is an ancestor simulation. Maybe conducted by an artificial superintelligence. What would be the most interesting parts of history to simulate? Many would argue this to be the time up to the inception of the ASI.

39

TheMadGraveWoman t1_jdqjbnb wrote

The said ASI must have an ego.

I hope I won't be punished for saying that.

11

SupportstheOP t1_jdsyueh wrote

Well, if we are part of an ASI simulation, then we are the ASI itself. So, in a way, it'd be like poking fun of yourself.

5

TheMadGraveWoman t1_jdt4xqo wrote

I do not feel like superintelligence. Why I can’t do super fast calculations?

1

often_says_nice OP t1_jdrb0m4 wrote

What if the simulation is the response of a massively complex LLM. Who is the prompter in this case? Would he be what people refer to as God?

8

Wasted-Entity t1_jdrzs0m wrote

Prompt:

Create an entire universe based on 4 fundamental laws of physics, make it so eventually life evolves that questions whether they’re just a prompt in an AI software.

11

RadioFreeAmerika t1_jdrezc7 wrote

Could be. I asked in another post about LLMs and maths capabilities, and it seems that LMMs would profit greatly from the capability to do internal simulations. LLMs can't do this currently, and people commented that in the Microsoft paper, they state that (current?) LLMs models are conceptually unable to do more than linear sequence processing of one sequence. Possible workarounds are plug-ins or neuro-symbolic AI models.

Nevertheless, maybe our reality is just the internal simulation of an ASIs prompt response. Who knows, would that be ironic?

Your second question is an eons-long discussion and greatly depends on how you define god.

5

Dolnen t1_jdrmt8y wrote

I think this line of reasoning is pointless, or at least it has unnecessary steps. What is the nature of the reality of that prompter? Is his the ultimate reality? How did that reality come about? The same questions we ask about our reality would still persist. It's an endless, paradoxical loop

5

acutelychronicpanic t1_jdt7zel wrote

It would also be the time period with the most rich data, and the only one with minds to directly analyze.

But it shouldn't change how we live. Just a fun thought.

4

TampaBai t1_je0ge56 wrote

I would assert that we are under the guidance of the Strong Anthropic Principle. That is to say, we cannot even imagine a universe in which we would not exist as observers and participate in the ongoing evolution and co-creation of the universe. Our observations and the tools we construct to make those observations help shape the structure we see around us, from the quantum to the macro-classical level. It may well be that our destiny is to create and merge with the singularity as the universe continues its relentless march toward maximum computational density and efficiency. We are receding into a singularity more so than expanding outward into space.

2