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What do they hope to learn from The Simulation?

Eddi

Agnostic
Premium Member
This post comes in two parts – a premise, and a question

Please don't make it into a debate about whether Simulation Theory is true or not

Premise

Let us assume that this reality is a virtual one, and that we are all virtual people, living in a computer…

i.e. approximate imitations of the real-world, and real world people – but set at a much earlier stage of technological and social development than those who built it have attained, making it an “ancestor simulation” (this notion is called Simulation Theory)

I believe such a virtual world could be used by those who designed it to simulate things – such as economic theory, military theory, culture, demographics, political science and political theory, social policy, crime, and social/cultural theory too – as well as being of use to historians

I imagine we are all living in an elaborate computer, owned by some kind of university or institute – I had a vivid dream about this, I shared it on this thread: Interpret this!

I believe that they routinely intervene in the virtual reality too, to test things, to see what happens

Question

Is it possible for the inhabitants of this virtual world to discern the intentions of those who created it – or can we only speculate?

What do they want to find out? What do they want to know? What theories are they testing?

And have they recently intervened in our reality, to make stuff happen?

My interest is imminently drawn to the conflict and tensions of the Middle East – perhaps long, long ago in base reality there was a conflict that very much resembled the troubles in the Middle East as they are within this virtual world – indeed maybe the peace process in base reality worked… or maybe it didn’t and there was Armageddon… and the purpose of this virtual reality is (amongst other things) to simulate what would have happened if things had turned out differently in base reality – for better or for worse?

Basically:

1) Can anyone think of an historical event that may have been the product of the programmers intervening in our dimension of reality, for whatever reason?

2) Any thoughts as to what the creators of this virtual world are interested in simulating?

3) What might they aim to learn from it all?

My view:

I personally think it is a simulation about the strategy of global domination by a world power – about how one power may come to control a planet, to help a power do this in base reality. I’m thinking of tensions between the USA and China – perhaps in base reality there is Superpower A and Superpower B and the USA corresponds to one of these, and China to the other? - imagine all they could have learnt from observing the alliance system before WWI and the politics of WWII and the Cold War - and how global terror works and can be combatted

Yep, I think it's mostly a geo-political world-domination simulation

And I think one team of specialists is managing the USA and a rival team China - and the aim is for one side to dominate the world (edit: without blowing it all up!)

Think of it as being treated like a giant real-life game of Victoria II, Hearts of Iron IV, or Europa Universalis IV (if you are familiar with those games...)

And I think they set all of this in what is to them the distant past, although that is not to say that other people are interested in what’s going on in here for other reasons..

I imagine academics from different fields use our reality to learn stuff

I believe that I personally have a channel of communication to The Simulation, but that's another story, and this whole thing is not about me...
 
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Polymath257

Think & Care
Staff member
Premium Member
Apologies to Douglas Adams,

What's the question for life, the universe, and everything?
 

Nimos

Well-Known Member
2) Any thoughts as to what the creators of this virtual world are interested in simulating?

3) What might they aim to learn from it all?
Rough one to answer when one find the simulation idea rather silly, but will give my thoughts on these. :)

If I should guess, I think the overall goal would be to see how advance AI would be able to survive in a harsh environment. Exactly what they could learn from it, would be either nothing as it might be some light entertainment show or maybe how they could expand their knowledge of their own AI things.
 

PureX

Veteran Member
It's not about knowing, it's about being. Which mostly requires that we let go of thinking that we know stuff.
 

1213

Well-Known Member
What do they hope to learn from The Simulation?

People were expelled to this ”simulation”, because they wanted to know good and evil. So, I believe we are here to learn what good and evil truly means. Luckily this is only a short lesson and those who are righteous can go back to true life.
 

Eddi

Agnostic
Premium Member
And they have unicorns there also !

Geeeeeeeeeez !
Oh wow, that is so breathtakingly original

I haven't heard that before

Except from someone else in a thread yesterday...

Congratulations, you are the first person to make it onto my ignore list

You Sir are a troll, and a poor troll at that

Good bye, have a nice life
 

Straw Dog

Well-Known Member
Yeah, I’ve play Civilization games. Let’s just hope it ends in a cultural and/ or technological victory.

Just play the game and don’t worry too much about tomorrow. Just focus on THIS reality, right here and now. That way your actions will become more effective.
 

Howard Is

Lucky Mud
@Eddi

It’s all about music.
What the Creators want most is to kick back and enjoy eternity. It can all get a bit jaded and predictable in ways that mortals have some similar experience of, but on a cosmic scale.
So the Creators have a mental health issue. Kinda like like cabin fever. It’s called The Dread.

The simulation is to see how the creatures adapt to their existential dilemma, and to learn new ways to circumvent The Dread, and keep eternity tolerable.

So far, the most valuable products of the simulation have been music. Music has made eternity enjoyable and interesting for the Creators, and keeps The Dread at bay. And some of the very best music is played by suffering humans. There is a clue for you !

I don’t mind being used as a musician by the Creators. It’s cool knowing that They get off on my grooves.
 

`mud

Just old
Premium Member
BOY !!!!! Did I get told off ! WOW !!

They really think they're in a game !
Do they ?

Ahhhhh...praise to the creators....whatever they are !
 
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