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Mundane-Local-2728 t1_ityngip wrote

Reply to comment by BinyaminDelta in First time for everything. by cloudrunner69

Holy shit, what if we are in one of the ancestor sims future humans ran in order to solve some big civilization-threatening inevitable crisis in their time, which requires some small remediation in their past (our present or possible future)? They probably have figured out how to travel back in time, and just waiting to find the optimal solution of their crisis.

Once they find that solution, they can go back in their past and implement an ever so small correction in their timeline, so that they don't alter their own timeline by huge amount but avert the crisis completely.

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wen_mars t1_itz0zey wrote

Without breaking our current understanding of the laws of physics: They haven't figured out time travel so they run a simulation of Earth to predict the future and find solutions to problems before they happen and simulate the consequences of those solutions.

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Mundane-Local-2728 t1_itz29zc wrote

Ooh this is actually even more realistic scenario. But that's exactly what makes it even more terrifying, because it goes without saying that civilizations in most of those sims would not arrive at the intended solutions and hence either get destroyed or the simulators would just switch them off. So our chances being in one of those "loser" sims are actually far greater than the "winner" ones.

Fuck.

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wen_mars t1_itz3u16 wrote

"Damn, rejected again. Computer, reload from last save."

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Mundane-Local-2728 t1_itz2f8z wrote

Also, there's a good possibility that the simulators just turn off the "winner" sims as well, once they have arrived at the solutions, because it wouldn't make sense to spend all that compute power once the sims have served their purpose.

So we're screwed either way.

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Dr_Singularity t1_itz805i wrote

"they", you mean we, we(literally you, me, other people here) may be behind this simulation.

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Mundane-Local-2728 t1_itzhomh wrote

True. Although I'm still a little skeptical that we'll be able to run lifelike sims in our lifetimes.

P.S. - I say "lifelike" in a literal sense - i.e. there's literally no difference between the fidelity of the sim and what we're experiencing right now. All physical laws (down to the unified theory of the reality that we might form in the future), all observable and interactable physical objects (down to their most fundamental particles), literally everything behaves and is present as it is in our reality.

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