Ah, from the picture I thought he would teach us how to read barcodes (which do underpin human reality), but it's just some boring simulation stuff.
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I did that with LSD 40 years ago.
Waiter, waiter! More headlines like this please
Oh my god, I knew it! He's crackred the code!!
If what we perceive as reality is a simulation the purpose is quite clear, to observe the behavior of overconfident idiots unfettered by the mediating tendencies of a too reasonable reality.
Maybe it’s some higher dimensional grad student simulating something to get some plots to add to a poster his postdoc wants him to present at a small time conference somewhere. Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.
Your reply kinda reminds me of Thirteenth Floor.
Maybe it's some kid's half-assed science project.
That's so many nested assumptions, lol:
Assumption table
- Graduate student in academia
- Running a simulation for data
- For a conference
- Haskell
The probability value of all four being true simultaneously approaches ≈0%
Don't forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.
Come on, it doesn't work like this. You can disprove the funny theory only if you give us an even more ridiculous one in it's stead.
Don't forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.
Most of it is empty. The trick is lazy evaluation.
Our telescopes eats up CPU cycles fast, the poor blokes cloud server will come with an unsuspecting bill this month...
Yeah, it uses a simplified model unless you look too close. That's how you get those funny quantum effects. Although, I have to say, great sativa, dude
Don't forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.
I mean, if it's really a simulation, all of that would be... simulated.
I know; I'm just fishing out counter-examples and counter-arguments.
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Yeah, drugs and looking into lasers will definitely change your brain, no doubt. Dunno if I want advice from someone who does that, tho…
Bro is about to reinvent shamanism
Ever seen vape smoke in lasers.. On weeeeeed
"yeah yeah the simulation lasers, we've all seen it"
Not gonna see much it he keeps putting lasers in his eyes
That laser is way too close to his eyes. Anyway, probably just seeing the speckle pattern, which granted, can look really cool and moves with your head as you tilt it.
Is that a curable condition?
Laser eye damage? Not so much
Yeah I can walk you through treatment. We're just going to need a little DMT