Re:Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation
by SketchySeaBeast on Monday May 05, 2025 @07:48PM
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The people in the media aren't actually suffering. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't enjoy it knowing that anything was actually was in pain for my amusement. We can't even use video game as a analogy for the simulation because the creatures in video games don't actually feel, and the simulation implies we are built to have conscious experience.
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Re:Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation
by Phanteaume on Monday May 05, 2025 @07:52PM
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> The people in the media aren't actually suffering.
I would argue that from their point of view, they very well do. See "Last Action Hero" for my point. How do you know, one dimension higher from them, that they do not suffer ? Do you see the actor "winking" at you, like it's a joke ? No, from their point of view, the suffering is pretty much real.
You imagine suffering from our point of view. Try to imagine that a God might see you as you see Bruce Wayne in the comics.
Re:Why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation
by SketchySeaBeast on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @11:01AM
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I get it, it's fun philosophically, but this is an absolute non issue.
As a counterpoint to your "Last Action Hero" argument, ask Arnold Schwarzenegger how much it hurt to film the Last Action Hero. Jack Slater is just a role Arnold played and Bruce Wayne is a character. You can never produce an unintended reaction from either of them because there's nothing there to react. They aren't even simulations of people. A person in the simulation is aware of their existence in some reality and are able to react to stimulus. Bruce Wayne can't do that, it does exactly what the writer and artist will. The only place that Bruce Wayne the thinking thing exists is in our imaginations.