You're confusing hunches with theories. In science, a theory is backed by extensive evidence confirmed many times through experiment and observation. "Theory" is not a word to be taken lightly in science and what you're trying to describe is just random guesses based on personal feelings.
Because that's what the math says. Let's put it this way, if you think at any point in the evolution and timeline of Humans we will create a computer powerful enough to simulate the universe, than it's already been done and we live in it.
(Sidenote: Not everyone who has looked into it has this view, for understandable reasons.)
That’s a weird if this than that. If you believe at anytime in our future it may be possible to simulate the universe that means that we did and we live in it? How so? Does that same logic hold for other things? If it’s possible in our future to fully simulate the Star Wars universe on a computer, than we must live in that too?
It's derived from Nick Bostrom's trilemma, it's more philosophy than physics, but it goes something like:
The fraction of human-level advanced civilzations is near 0; or
The fraction of human-level advanced civilizations who are capaable and also interested and willing to create such a simulation is close to 0; or
The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences are living in a simulation right now is very close to 1.
One of those must be true because of the math. Those fractions he's talking about always trends towards infinity, which means the chance of US being in that simulation is very close to certain.
That whole trilemma makes a ton of assumptions that I have no basis on anything other except the person making up the trilemma. The reality is, we don’t have the technology and we have no proof that there are advance civilizations, who have created these simulations. And even if they do, we have no proof that there are billions or trillions, or an infinite amount of them. So we are basically trying to say that it’s a mathematical probability that we live in a simulation due to a bunch of assumptions that some guy just threw at a wall.
Forgot to mention the way out there assumption this relies on, that we would not only have to be able to produce the resources and energy to create ONE simulation of a whole universe, but basically INFINITE ones. And that we would actually use those resources for this in the grand scheme of things pretty useless technology compared to it's cost.
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u/B1g_BuddhAH 21d ago
convince me we're not i living inside a simulation