Submitted by izumi3682 t3_z2jqwa in Futurology
OlafForkbeard t1_ixi9xy8 wrote
Reply to comment by GrandWazoo0 in How to test if we’re living in a computer simulation by izumi3682
Assuming that we live in a simulation, and that individuals do in fact have sentience and sapience within the simulation... how do you leave? Putting your effective neurology in a robot with even more sensors to tell us how things are in reality? It is insanely optimistic to assume a Matrix style simulation where when it gets pulled we remain individuals with some form of body to use outside. Occum's Razor would have me believe that the simplest simulation involves individuals being entirely "circuitry" or whatever form is used. Taking the red pill might well be the same as pulling a highly advanced GPU out of a computer, tossing on the floor, and assuming it's still a living person.
I dislike the simulation theories for the same reason I'm an aetheist. Their impracticality knows no bounds. You can theoretically put an infinite number of Wrappers around concepts, but if they are not testable, what's the point?
Let's not fall prey to different forms of Roko's Basilisk.
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