Do you think any aliens exist in the universe?

[pood]

You have asserted that we probably live in a simulation (recently shown to be impossible).

So that article you linked to proved that the odds that we're in a simulation is 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000%?

You the burden of proof to show that it is possible and that in fact we live in a matrix. You can’t meet that burden. Hence I conclude that the claim we live in a simulation is bullshit.

I've tried explaining myself multiple times. Remember that Sabine Hossenfelder gave it 9/10 on the bullsh*t meter. Why did she give it that score if that argument is 100.0000000000000000% water tight? Maybe Occam would say that maybe she's more accurate than the article you love so much.

As mentioned, I don’t give a fuck what Hossenfelder says. Appeals to authority are empty and anyway, she is no longer an authority on anything, just a standard-issue internet grifter.

 

[pood]

Well Dictionary.com's Word of the Year is for 2025 is 67 pronounced "six-seven". So the odds of some esoteric numbers being the word of the year - or even in the dictionary at all - is pretty low.

WTF is your actual argument here?

Like the meaning of the "word" the meaning isn't very clear. Just that there is some kind of connection between things involving 6 and 7. (including a coincidental connection)

Huh? What are you trying to say here?

 

[pood]

Reality is reality,

So-called reality is a simulation.

There is no way to differentiate between the two.

So why worry about it?

 

[pood]

I have asked this before, but I don’t believe I have ever gotten a direct answer, only elliptical ones,

Do you believe that we live in a simulation, and you are the only one conscious in it, and the rest of us are p zombies?

 

[excreationist]

As mentioned, I don’t give a fuck what Hossenfelder says. Appeals to authority are empty and anyway, she is no longer an authority on anything, just a standard-issue internet grifter.

I was under the impression that you believed the paper/article because it seemed authoritative and it supports your existing opinion. I'm not sure you actually understand what it is trying to argue. Why is it necessary that simulations must be able to evaluate every single possible algorithm including those that would take more than a googolplex years to evaluate? Maybe try and assume that the audience is a first year university student (or less).

 

[excreationist]

Reality is reality,

So-called reality is a simulation.

There is no way to differentiate between the two.

So why worry about it?

I thought you could differentiate between the two because one is an absolute certainty, the other is absolutely impossible...

 

[pood]

As mentioned, I don’t give a fuck what Hossenfelder says. Appeals to authority are empty and anyway, she is no longer an authority on anything, just a standard-issue internet grifter.

I was under the impression that you believed the paper/article because it seemed authoritative and it supports your existing opinion. I'm not sure you actually understand what it is trying to argue. Why is it necessary that simulations must be able to evaluate every single possible algorithm including those that would take more than a googolplex years to evaluate? Maybe try and assume that the audience is a first year university student (or less).

The paper argues that the universe is not fundamentally algorithmic and therefore algorithms cannot simulate it.

Do you believe we live in a simulation and that you are the only conscious person in in, and the rest of us, or at lest most of the rest of us, are p zombies?

Yes/no?

 

[excreationist]

The paper argues that the universe is not fundamentally algorithmic and therefore algorithms cannot simulate it.

I've shown that generative AI that can produce the visuals and sounds of believable people. What is stopping a more sophisticated and powerful version of that from simulating a universe? And what exactly does that have to do with Gödel’s incompleteness theorems?

Do you believe we live in a simulation and that you are the only conscious person in in, and the rest of us, or at lest most of the rest of us, are p zombies?

Yes/no?

It's like the question of whether I think I'll die in the next 30 years. I don't have a clear yes or no answer. It would mean a possible simulation would be a lot cheaper and it would reduce the problem of suffering a lot. Maybe there's a 50:50 chance - to simplify things.