Sim Theory

[xorcist at sigaint.org]

>
> I figure it's best to ignore the implications of the simulation
> hypothesis. There's nothing to be done about it.

If I'm understanding you correctly, I find I quite agree, but for perhaps
different reasons, because I don't find the implications to be all that
difficult.

Whether reality is material and we're threatened by cosmic rays, meteors,
or the vagaries of war-mongering, hairless apes with nukes, or whether
reality is immaterial, and we're at the mercy of a simulation, or some
unknowable God, the result is fundamentally the same when you follow it
out: There is no safe place in the universe. There is nothing to grab hold
of. The more we look for safety, the more danger we will find. The more we
try to grab hold of things, the more they will slip away. Death will
overtake every living thing, eventually.

And so, from this, it doesn't matter the slightest to me if reality is a
simulation, or not. For that matter, it doesn't matter in the slightest if
a meteor hits. Or if humanity blows itself up with nukes. I'd prefer my
other humans decided to play better games than Monopoly, Scrabble, or
Chess,
but it doesn't really matter one way or the other.

We're HERE. NOW - attending a party with some 7 billion or so other
people. So, party, and try to make it a FUN party.