Simulations: Any person's life that isn't worth living?

[excreationist]

An argument against reality being a simulation could be that your life seems quite ordinary - why would someone want to simulate it? Well in games like GTA V, the countless non-player characters are mostly ordinary. But what if you're the central character? (and others are background characters or also central characters)

This "Rick and Morty" excerpt shows a simulation where you can forget your real identity then live out a somewhat ordinary life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szzVlQ653as
(well Morty pretty much loses his memory while Rick doesn't)

Some people might say that why would anyone want to simulate being in the Holocaust?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl

....Nevertheless, Say "Yes" to Life: A Psychologist Experiences the Concentration Camp) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate, which led him to discover the importance of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most brutal ones, and thus, a reason to continue living...

Perhaps the person chose the simulation knowing how brutal it would be but they wanted a challenge (like how some video game players are now) [or it is just a lottery]

Maybe at the end your true self would reveal their true identity or some of it, a bit like the idea of gods playing hide and seek in the game of life.

 

[DBT]

The parameters of the simulation may be to begin with just a set of principles, say the laws of physics, and allow the simulation to develop any way possible, with no aim in mind. Perhaps evolving in ways that not even the simulators imagined would happen? An experiment based on Probabilities, Possibilities and Outcomes....

 

[excreationist]

The parameters of the simulation may be to begin with just a set of principles, say the laws of physics, and allow the simulation to develop any way possible, with no aim in mind.

I think normally simulations would have significant limits on the amount of memory and computation involved. It would only simulate what it needs to in order for the conscious beings accessing it to seem realistic. So if a person was looking at the sun it wouldn't simulate the sun on a quantum level, just as an approximation. Otherwise to simulate space time it would be on the scale of Planck length (10^-35 m) and Planck time (10^-43 seconds).

Perhaps evolving in ways that not even the simulators imagined would happen? An experiment based on Probabilities, Possibilities and Outcomes....

I think those would be done on a much smaller scale - starting from the Mandelbrot set and Conway's game of life... but nowhere to the size of our universe in terms of the number of particles and resolution of space-time.

 

[DBT]

The parameters of the simulation may be to begin with just a set of principles, say the laws of physics, and allow the simulation to develop any way possible, with no aim in mind.

I think normally simulations would have significant limits on the amount of memory and computation involved. It would only simulate what it needs to in order for the conscious beings accessing it to seem realistic. So if a person was looking at the sun it wouldn't simulate the sun on a quantum level, just as an approximation. Otherwise to simulate space time it would be on the scale of Planck length (10^-35 m) and Planck time (10^-43 seconds).

Perhaps evolving in ways that not even the simulators imagined would happen? An experiment based on Probabilities, Possibilities and Outcomes....

I think those would be done on a much smaller scale - starting from the Mandelbrot set and Conway's game of life... but nowhere to the size of our universe in terms of the number of particles and resolution of space-time.

Depends on who we are talking about. If it's a Super Civilization generating simulations, Type 111 or whatever, who can say what is possible? I wouldn't hazard a guess. Scale may be a matter of how the inhabitants perceive their 'universe' and not necessarily how it fits into the overall scheme of things.