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overlordpotatoe t1_ixc3bjl 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, that makes more sense to me. Like mountains in the background of a game world that you can't actually climb. Compared to simulating an entire universe, it would be trivial to fake the illusion of one.

But this raises other questions. Has this simulation actually been running for millions of years, just waiting for life to emerge? That seems unlikely to me. If we are living in a simulation, I think it must either run at a far greater speed than that of whoever is watching it exists at and/or history is also an illusion.

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Kanthabel_maniac t1_ixc5gvx wrote

I dont think you need to simulate the entire pre human existence, time to time, the simulation lets you find a fossil or ancient meteor to give you the illusion we are in the real world.

I wonder if UFO's or UAPs are the moderators checking for cheaters?

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overlordpotatoe t1_ixc8wox wrote

Yeah, that's my thought exactly. If we are in a simulation, I think human beings are specifically what's being studied, so it's unlikely the simulation would have actually run through millions of years of evolution. If that is the case, it could have begun at any time. Even at some point in modern history. Hell, yesterday, for all we know. Of course, this is all speculation. There are endless possibilities and we may never know for sure what the truth is. There could be obvious tells right in front of us that we've been programmed to completely ignore.

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Kanthabel_maniac t1_ixc9r3d wrote

I can't stop thinking of Dark City for some reason. I have to specify, the movie not a random city who happens to be dark.

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