Godric,

Makes me miss my old roommate, who didn’t believe in God but believed this all could be a simulation. Hope you’re doing well buddy, wherever the fuck you’ve wandered!

confluence,

Dr. Blitz called Simulation Theory religion for tech bros and I can’t get it out of my head 😅

Poggervania,
@Poggervania@kbin.social avatar

both have people believe humans are part of a greater design

both include some otherworldly figure either observing or mandating how we live our lives

both reject the idea that maybe we’re just fuckin’ here because we are just fuckin’ here

Love how some people are legitimately proving this meme in the comments.

anton,

both include some otherworldly figure either observing or mandating how we live our lives

There is a big difference between observing and mandating. Most interpretations of simulation theory don’t even talk about humans being observed.

PeriodicallyPedantic,

Some religions don’t either, and ST doesn’t preclude it.

Cannacheques,

Agreed

flying_sheep, (edited )
@flying_sheep@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t think there’s a significant number of people who believe in a specific simulation scenario the way so many people believe in a specific religion.

Sure, some dumb tech bros believe “i think we live in like, a simulation, dude”, which would correspond to “there must be some higher power out there for sure”. Both beliefs are irrational, but more likely than “the Matrix is real, just like in the movies” or “this specific codex got it all right and we should live our lives after the thousands of unclear moral teachings that can be extrapolated from it by untrustworthy human preachers”

Omega_Haxors, (edited )

It’s always the worst people who believe this too. The only interpretation of Simulation Theory that I will even remotely entertain is the one that we’re all information stuck on the surface of a black hole, because it’s the only one that isn’t just there to feed tech bros’ god complex.

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe,
@AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social avatar

I've never even heard of a simulation theory that remotely fits this mold.

The typical interpretation is that we're part of an ancestor simulation run by future humans / machines.

How that feeds anyone's God complex is beyond me.

Omega_Haxors, (edited )

It’s a fantasy that puts techbros in the position of god.

Cannacheques,

Python programmer suddenly feels less holy.

Haha

MossyFeathers,

Counterpoint: we’re in an educational program. The program is about the horrors of the 21st century, including climate change, greed, the rise of AI in a capitalist society, COVID, the return of fascism, the fall of the west and god knows what else. The tech bros, billionaires, politicians, etc aren’t actually real, it’s everyone else who is. Why? Those positions are too comfy and your students might learn the wrong lessons if you let them participate as trump or musk.

quackers,

it’s not a fair comparison, in the sense that the religions people tens to not believe in are those with disputable claims in a book dictated by god.
Caims such as simulation theory or unspecified god without evidence for or against it make way more sense than major deistic religions. And again, that’s not to say it’s true, its just significantly more likely to be accurate.

gedaliyah,
@gedaliyah@lemmy.world avatar

Oooohhooho. You really touched a nerve on this one.

hondaguy97386,

…but we’re not just random arrangements of atoms…

Rhynoplaz,

Not with THAT kind of attitude!

antrosapien,

Or are we Boltzmann brain

superduperenigma,

I’m Cave Johnson, here to personally thank you for volunteering to test Aperture Science’s brand new long range spacetime displacement device. Before we begin, there’s 2 things I need to mention.

First off, there is a non-zero percent, closer to 90, chance that you will end up being a just a random arrangement of atoms after the test. Not in a philosophical way. Just an absolutely random heap of atoms sprawled across the testing chamber floor.

Second, I need to remind you that the waiver you signed is iron clad. You can thank the suits in legal for that.

Now let’s begin!

Cannacheques,

Why not? Even if it we’re meant to be important why can it not be by action rather than by birth, see how narcissistic it is to think we’re supposed to be here?

hondaguy97386,

I didn’t say we were important or supposed to be here. Just that we aren’t random. The initial state of the cosmos may have been random but everything after that is following a trajectory based on physics.

Cuttlefish1111,

Baseless Belief is not equal to evidence backed theory

answersplease77, (edited )

Go learn where the simulation universe and timless holographic universe came from before saying a theory is evidence backed. Both have leap of faith instead direct proven evidence or tested results. Both exist because they’re possible theories that cannot be proven true nor false, and most impoartantly they are not in the same scientific level or field to be compared in first place, and also they both can exist without even contradicting each other. Religon does not only try to explain the arrow of time and current universe like simulation theory tries to do and that’s one reason of many why they are incomparable. First, religon answers why the laws of existences exist which has no matching theory in theoritical physics except for because laws exist otherwise there wouldn’t be ones that create conciousness aka it is what it is otherwise it wouldn’t. Secondly, most of the religon ones hold defined philosophical consequences and requirements for your existance while the simulation one comes with no philosophy, provides you with nothing and asks nothing from you because it’s just theoratical physics that answers nothing more and still needs explanation.

Cuttlefish1111, (edited )

I guess I wasn’t clear enough. Both of those particular theories of the origin of our existence are foolish and not based in reality. There exists Overwhelming evidence we evolved. No evidence of any alternative. You have to actively deny reality and logic to think otherwise. I will not entertain your or anyone else’s response to this, it’s garbage. Theists are a cancer on our society and tools for billionaires. It’s a convenient social hierarchy for which the plebs to police themselves. No thanks.

db2,
mycus, (edited )
@mycus@kbin.social avatar

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BonfireOvDreams,
@BonfireOvDreams@lemmy.ml avatar

Based. but also, cringe.

db2,

Stay mad.

mycus,
@mycus@kbin.social avatar

Hah! Sorry for the poor copypasta, I just now realised that on lemmy my reply makes absolutely no sense.

On kbin I saw only a "cringe" reply and thought the copypasta would be fitting.

It still doesn't make that much more sense, but eh... Guess I should give that migration feature a try.

db2,

I’ll be honest, I didn’t even know it was a copypasta. 🤦

PeriodicallyPedantic,

What the fuck

TimeSquirrel, (edited )
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.social avatar

Jesus Christ dude, go outside and smoke a blunt. It's time to take a break.

Cannacheques,

This is why I prefer to believe in Gnosticism.

WeirdGoesPro,
@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Holy shit, another one of us? There are dozens of us! Dozens!

uphillbothways,
@uphillbothways@kbin.social avatar

I exclusively pray to the god of the sentient beings running our simulation for truly we are but a part of their intelligent design. 👀

Thcdenton,
vivadanang,

yup.

YeetPics,
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

God is real and he said to kill all those people that don’t believe the exact same thing as you.

Vs

The subset of mathematical rules that guide the movement of the very small and very large seem to be engineered.

Totally the same shit.

neptune,

Change the top text to remove the word “random” and instead explain how people actually talk about evolution.

Change the bottom text to say “statistics may imply the universe is a simulation…”

And then you remove the straw man argument.

lseif,

yep.

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