I mean, there might be a secret AI technology that is so advanced to the point that it can mimic a real human, make posts and comments that looks like its written by a human and even intentionally doing speling mistakes to simulate human errors. How do we know that such AI hasn’t already infiltrated the internet and everything that you see is posted by this AI? If such AI actually exists, it’s probably so advanced that it almost never fails barring rare situations where there is an unexpected errrrrrrrrrorrrrrrrrrrr…

[Error: The program “Human_Simulation_AI” is unresponsive]

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    If it’s a simulation your imagination and understanding of the world (simulation) is limited and you have no idea how resource intensive it would be to run, perhaps we’re a kids toy for some being

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      Again: the resources, the effort needed to create and sustain such a massive simulation just for fun, belong to civilization of so high advancement, that it renders the idea impossible.

      Beings being able to do it would be able to bypass any stage of infancy or childhood, because it’d be obsolete and pointless for them.

      • We, human beings, can simulate worlds more complicated than the real one. It doesn’t have to be like The Matrix. It could be like Dwarf Fortress. We wouldn’t know if we are the simulation because it would always seem real and complex to us, even if all the creatures running the simulation see are numbers/text.

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          We, human beings, can simulate worlds more complicated than the real one.

          No, we can’t.

          We can’t even simulate less complicated worlds, but so alien that they follow entirely different “natural laws” to our own.

          Dwarf Fortress

          Dwarf Fortress is ridiculously primitive in comparison to our reality.

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          Because that’s how evolution works in intelligent species, or at least should - it leaves behind everything that’s no longer needed.

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        …?

        If it’s a simulation all the laws of physics and so on that you’re basing these theories on might not even exist outside the simulation.

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          You can’t simulate a massive environment so alien to your own that they have nothing in common. You could answer “of course I can”, but all your arguments for that would be Russel’s Teapot.