Parts Have Arrived

parts have arrived:

let us indulge simulation theory further for a minute. suppose the world of Earth is a simulation. assume that most people are not real. assume there are limits to the simulation. that there are things no one has really done before even though it seems millions of people have. that there is a poverty to the simulation. the world seems full, lots of things happening, with many people. whereas there are only a few people in actuality, less than 40% real.

in the simulation the simulated people, or the simulants, are reflections of real people. a person may not be real but certainly someone is like that. one real person equates to thousands if not millions of simulants that are similar. indeed, assume most simulants are blends of several real people.

in an iterative sense, the first person to really do something makes it easy for someone else to do it. like using shared files you download so to speak. images, sounds, geography and cast of simulants you encounter.

but what if you want to do something or go somewhere that no one else has ever really done before or been to? this can only seem like a risk. am i really covered by the simulation? is its engine capable of rendering the experience? or do i need to be, as such, a god creating new reality in doing what no one has done before?

ponder how available an experience is. do i have the files? do i have the parts i need? and hopefully one day, by Shiva, parts have arrived! and let's go on an adventure.

CLEARCHARGE

Dealing with the Simulation

dealing with the simulation:

that night i was admitted to a mental hospital in November, 1992, i had the most frightening thought before i was sectioned and hauled off in a van: i was the only real person there, the other people in the room, all not real. solipsism was to me extremely disturbing. the idea had never occurred to me before that night. i didn't want to believe in it.

i am not solipsistic but i find it hard to believe as i once did that everyone is a real person. so it becomes a guessing game. what percentage of people are real? when i meet someone am i dealing with a real person? do real people have a presence?

if you think about it, how likely is it that all lifeforms that possess consciousness are capable of being human? surely not 100%. could there really be billions of people that could be configured as human? yet it appears there are.

what is unquestionable is that this reality possesses high intelligence. intelligence that could run a simulation?

and why are we here? i don't remember asking to be born on Earth. what is the purpose of the simulation? simply to meet other people?

i used to think of people that aren't real as "illusions". now in popular culture they are called NPC's.

if you seriously entertain the idea that the world of Earth is a simulation, populated by fewer than 100% real people, the concept of risk changes. you might like to visit somewhere abroad. it looks so good in the brochure. what if complete countries have 0% real people? with no one real to do anything there, aren't you straining the compute needed for you to visit this place? consider that real people generate programs for doing things, processes that can be shared with other people. if driving a car works for me, it can work for someone else. it is a risk to do something that no one real has done before then surely? what if you get in the plane to go off to that place in the brochure with a 0% real population and the simulation just freezes or worse because the place simply does not exist yet? more commonly, what is it like to go from somewhere where say 50% of people are real to somewhere where only 1% are? i think i have got what that feels like going somewhere where nobody seems real.

to put it bluntly, assuming as i once did as a child that the world is 100% populated by billions of real people now seems naive.

CLEARCHARGE

Fate and Decision

fate and decision:

how did i get here? when you look back on your life, you remember the major decisions, the school you applied for, the job you took and the relationships you chose. we cannot deny decisions influence what happens to us, the general course of our lives. decisions matter. but how do decisions happen?

we would like to think the important ones are well thought out, that we make the best choices with what information we have, that we can defeat fate as being something that takes control away. let us examine the decision making process whilst walking in a crowded city street. people walk towards you. every few seconds, you decide to swerve to the right or left to avoid colliding with people. the pace is so fast that there is little time for conscious thought as to how to navigate the crowd. you make decisions as to the path you walk instinctively.

posit that life moves fast, even though it may not seem it. do we have enough time to make intelligent life decisions? is life like playing chess with blitz time controls?

speaking for myself, i am interested in things like time and fate. i enjoy writing. blogger exists. so was it inevitable that i would write this blog post. all the ingredients were there. was it my fate?

CLEARCHARGE