Do we live in a simulation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK0M0v-j4-c

!

  On 11/12/2012 at 7:19 PM, sirch said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK0M0v-j4-c

 

!

exactly

I asked god about this yesterday, and he told me no. It's a fps.

i think i just respawned

*headshots BCM and reloads*

fucking campers

ever since I read this thread I have been thinking about the very such thing constantly but it still remains uncertain whether we can truly prove our own existance... and where does consciousness come into play?

it doesn't matter. no, really, it doesn't. think about it.

it does if you're really bored

oo, there's a wiki article

http://en.wikipedia....tion_hypothesis

  Quote

A technologically mature "posthuman" civilization would have enormous computing power. Based on this empirical fact, the simulation argument shows that at least one of the following propositions is true:

 

1. The fraction of human-level civilizations that reach a posthuman stage is very close to zero;

 

2. The fraction of posthuman civilizations that are interested in running ancestor-simulations is very close to zero;

 

3. The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close to one.

 

If (1) is true, then we will almost certainly go extinct before reaching posthumanity. If (2) is true, then there must be a strong convergence among the courses of advanced civilizations so that virtually none contains any relatively wealthy individuals who desire to run ancestor-simulations and are free to do so. If (3) is true, then we almost certainly live in a simulation. In the dark forest of our current ignorance, it seems sensible to apportion one's credence roughly evenly between (1), (2), and (3).

Unless we are now living in a simulation, our descendants will almost certainly never run an ancestor-simulation