Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

garden_frog OP t1_ixc24mf wrote

Reply to comment by Mortal-Region in Expert Proposes a Method For Telling if We All Live in a Computer Program by garden_frog

Yeah, it's a possibility. That would also explain why we haven't yet observed any extraterrestrial life.

4

Mortal-Region t1_ixccebe wrote

They might be simulating the birth of the first technological civilization in the galaxy. It's certainly an event worth studying. And we are very early. It's just 13.7 billion years since the start, and the universe will support life for thousands of billions of years. Maybe much longer. We could be living their origin story.

8

Saineolai_too t1_ixc5003 wrote

So, since you were able to detect our simulation because of its lack of aliens, it's reasonable to assume the next run of the simulation will include aliens, right?

Or, perhaps, the last run included aliens, but it turned out to be a very bad idea and ended in an end with no results?

Therefore, there is no successfully undetectable way to run a simulation - with or without aliens. There's no way to get a result that isn't tainted by subject awareness. So, it becomes obvious that it's not a viable tool for whatever the hell the point of simulations might be, so no one is running a simulation at all.

Probably.

0