It is fun to think about the Simulation Theory but most discussions revolve around it being likely that we are in one.

What are some concrete reasons why it’s all science fiction and not reality?

    • r00ty@kbin.life
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      10 months ago

      I don’t think we can ever prove one way or the other if we’re in a simulation. I am not really sure it should actually matter to us though. But in answer to a couple of the points you make.

      the bugs would be obvious malfunctions in the code. But would the program and those in the program realize they are bugs? A sentient NPC in GTA, for example, would they realize the car that just glitched through the world is not normal behavior? Perhaps the bug also affects their understanding of their world too.

      If there are bugs, we’d likely not know it. Because everything about the world and universe around us is normal, because it is how it is “warts and all”. But specifically we have some odd things like some of the effects attributed to quantum theories. Perhaps they could be considered bugs.

      our simulation system is rebooted on a normal basis but we never see it which reduces the bugs observed. Perhaps the planet operates on a docker-like platform, and when everyone in the section is asleep, the system is rebooted unbeknownst to the users residing there. Or reboots are not observed by us and we have no perception of “lost time”.

      Why would you see it? If this is a simulation, and the entire system’s state is frozen, stored and the system shutdown for 1000 years. Then restarted, for us no time would have passed, and we’d be unaware of the “shutdown”.

    • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      we don’t seem to encounter any in our universe as we know it

      What the fuck are you talking about? Genetic mutations causing horrible lifelong mentally and physically painful issues for people sounds like a bug in DNA metabolics to me. And what about black holes? Gravity wells getting so massive it bugs out because the universe has no idea what to do and thinks it is a simultaneous implosion and explosion forever until someone observes beyond the event horizon.

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      We absolutely have bugs we’ve recently discovered.

      Consider the sync errors when you have multiple layers of quantum observers such that two eventual observers don’t agree about facts.

      Which in conjunction with another recent similar paradox led to my favorite recent paper title: Stable Facts, Relative Facts

      You very much do live in a universe where there are sync errors, they are just well below the threshold where you’d notice them due in part to a built in consensus protocol which effectively corrects for them.