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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Does anyone base their lives and their worldviews around the simulation theory?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Its such a philosophical dead end. I know a few people who really want the world to be a simulation but I cant understand why. I think they want an excuse to have nothing matter and be shitty.

But i would not live my life any differently if we found out that this is a simulation. Because its still real to me and there's no reason to believe I can exist outside the simulation any more than my sims can exist outside the game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I know one person who does. And, of course, everyone thinks he lost his marbles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

How does that person’s behavior differ from “normal”?

For example, a Christian would go to church, probably believe in hell, and pray.

I don’t even know what one would do differently if they truly believed we're in a computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well, he constantly wears what I can only describe as an attempt to make a power armor straight from a 2000s live action sci-fi, constantly screams that everyone is dumb and that "The Great Observer" will free believers from this simulation, believes that if he remains hidden for a couple of minutes, police will simply lose him like this was GTA, and other dumb shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

To be completely cynical: they'd blame the jews for hiding this knowledge from them and use it, generally, to sow distrust in the institutions we already have for supporting "non-simulation theory". (see: flat earth)

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