supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
on 14 Sep 17:45
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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.
Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.
Most of it is empty. The trick is lazy evaluation.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Sep 21:03
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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
and honestly, even if it is a simulation, so what? do you have a way to get out? can you even exist outside of it? do you hurt or love any less knowing that? what are you supposed to do about it? give up? lay your simulation body on the simulation dirt and simulation die?
none of it really matters does it, especially because you can’t know if it’s possible to leave/exist outside. as far as you know this life is still the only thing that is certain
Shanmugha@lemmy.world
on 14 Sep 21:59
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If it’s a simulation someone must be running it. Maybe we could get their attention somehow.
Praying obviously doesn’t work. Maybe if we all stripped naked and just kind of started getting it on in a giant juicy fuck pile that would get their attention.
And they could make things suck less.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 14 Sep 23:21
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Shit, it’s broken again, where’s the reset button?
dmention7@midwest.social
on 15 Sep 00:14
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If I was playing The Sims, and one of my Sims started showing un-mistakeable signs of self awareness, I would panic and ctrl-alt-delete that shit so fast.
Maybe its better if we DMT-and-lasers our way into a plan before we start banging on the glass.
That’s assuming the someone running the simulation is even aware we are here. For all we know, they’re just trying to model out the behavior of stars and black holes.
According to the dude, people with no foreknowledge also saw the same things. “Seeing the code of the matrix” definitely sounds better than “DMT enhances random patterns”.
TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Sep 03:57
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uwu polyester me daddy
woodenghost@hexbear.net
on 14 Sep 18:56
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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.
I’m old dude, we didn’t have vapes: if you wanted to meet your higher self you had to use a bong or a pipe
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
on 14 Sep 20:22
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I’ll buy that for a dollar.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Sep 04:49
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Here, you want a mind fuck? I’ll let you have it for free:
Bell’s Theorem: The universe is not locally real (either the speed of light is violable or properties of things do not exist until observed). Light simultaneously takes all paths, and so does everything else if given the right conditions. We just perceive “Location” as a property things have because of probability and the fact that all of the other potential locations have probability functions that average out to zero (not a quantum physicist, so probably not using quite the right terms there). “Everything” literally is “Everywhere, All At Once”. The world that we perceive is nothing more or less than a vast ocean of waves within overlapping fields. The interference between the waves, the troughs and crests, are the objects we perceive. Nothing is truly as you see it, even yourself. Also, the force of gravity doesn’t exist. Time just passes slower near massive objects.
That’s the best I can do for ya. First hit’s free.
I don’t see how these facts of physics say anything about our reality being simulated? Or even contradicting if we really exist etc? I mean they can get your imagination going sure but being able to verify the human experience is the penultimate arbiter
Sorry out of the loop here - what’s this a scene from?
lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
on 15 Sep 05:32
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Dave the Barbarian is an American cartoon series produced by Disney that ran for one season between 2004 and 2005. The show is about a cowardly barbarian named Dave who is tasked with protecting the kingdom, as well as the princess, while his parents are away fighting evil.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works
on 14 Sep 23:35
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Well, a friend of mine took acid with a TV in the room, and it enabled him to see what was behind the signal, between the scanlines, on the other side of the picture. He then saw the message that held the secret to unlocking the truth of the universe.
It said: LSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSD
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world
on 15 Sep 00:09
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Im working my way up intensity to build an immunity. I’m all the way to class IV indirect. Hoping to achieve direct by the next eclipse so I don’t need my Raybans.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Sep 23:51
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When you gain the superpower to shoot lasers from your eyeballs, I am going to have a few contracts for you.
laser light has this way of enhancing interference patterns as it spreads out, this is why it has weird looking patterns when projected in a wide angle.
This is also probably what the person in this post was seeing and tripping on, staring directly into a laser pointer while high as balls.
traceur402@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Sep 20:20
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It appears to be on some sort of apparatus that can make it draw a line, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some gimmick that makes it actually draw cryptic letters or something too
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 15 Sep 15:09
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Like the Kumail Nanjiani joke about a new drug called “cheese,” made by mixing Tylenol PM with heroin.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
on 15 Sep 17:22
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If anyone was curious the reason for “cheese” is to turn black tar heroin into a snortable powder. It’s not really well known because people who buy tar smoke it or inject it and if you wanted to snort heroin you would just buy powder form, but powder used to be hard to find on the west coast until fentanyl became big.
Dimethyltryptamine. Shit‘s got the TRYP already in the name bro.
funkajunk@lemmy.world
on 15 Sep 05:30
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Even if we were in a simulation, we only exist inside of it and knowledge of whether or not we are “real” doesn’t actually change our interaction with the time and space inside our universe.
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 15 Sep 10:09
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The only thing one could do with knowledge of being in a simulation, is trying to find bugs and exploits.
From now on, I expect anyone claiming we live in a simulation to have a working perpetual motion device, faster that light communication, or something similarly impressive. If they don’t, their claim is meaningless useless.
Theory is that the human (and maybe other) brain creates a simulation of the world experienced through the senses and that ‘you’ interact with that. Everybody has their own simulation, no code to speak of. Drugs can ‘hack’ it by messing with the simulation and perception.
tomjuggler@lemmy.world
on 15 Sep 06:05
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Not sure how you can it these days, but I recommend static on a TV over this.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
on 15 Sep 07:33
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Memory is one of the weirdest things about the human experience, it’s still relatively unknown how we store and “revisit” memories on some levels, and our memories are not records like photographs or data on a hard-drive, they’re really more like saved simulations that you rerun every time you bring them up, this is why they can be so radically wrong or distorted from actual events. Every time you run that simulation your brain will “smooth out the edges” and fill in gaps with whatever it predicts should be there.
Your brain is so good at doing this, that you can easily wire yourself to have false memories. Most people are unsettled by this prospect but you can use it for fun! Example: I have altered my own memory of the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow” to also include Frankenstein’s Monster as one of the dangers of the frozen world, and have clear memories of Frankenstein’s Monster clomping around with his pack of wolves looking for the protagonist. Great movie, highly recommend you watch and re-write in your mind.
chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net
on 15 Sep 16:02
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I read about this idea before with a tidbit about how because of this your best and worst memories are your least reliable. Cool thought!
I remember being taught something that resembles the idea, you wrote, when I took a course on cognition during my PhD. Memory is probably the most fascinating aspect of cognition to me, TBH.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
on 15 Sep 07:37
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Crazy people were spreading stupid shit like this on youtube for decades but I would really like to know why Vice thinks this is newsworthy now. Did the society became so stupid that being an idiot influences is now a valid profession?
being a court fool or village idiot have been professions too. The problem nowdays is that too many people look up to the idiots as someone to seriously listen to, not as entertainment.
Comments all seem to refer to an article and this post doesn’t link to any article. ? (edit: never mind, I looked up the name and I don’t need to see anything more).
Hmm if I say that if you add magic mushrooms to the mix you can change the simulation to your advantage, will you follow me? I could use the extra cash.
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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.
That’s so many nested assumptions, lol:
Assumption table
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.
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Most of it is empty. The trick is lazy evaluation.
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
Our telescopes eats up CPU cycles fast, the poor blokes cloud server will come with an unsuspecting bill this month…
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.
Your reply kinda reminds me of Thirteenth Floor.
Maybe it’s some kid’s half-assed science project.
Lisp is the true God’s programming language…
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Wow awesome cover!
and honestly, even if it is a simulation, so what? do you have a way to get out? can you even exist outside of it? do you hurt or love any less knowing that? what are you supposed to do about it? give up? lay your simulation body on the simulation dirt and simulation die?
none of it really matters does it, especially because you can’t know if it’s possible to leave/exist outside. as far as you know this life is still the only thing that is certain
Exactly this. Thank you for spelling it out
If it’s a simulation someone must be running it. Maybe we could get their attention somehow.
Praying obviously doesn’t work. Maybe if we all stripped naked and just kind of started getting it on in a giant juicy fuck pile that would get their attention.
And they could make things suck less.
If I was playing The Sims, and one of my Sims started showing un-mistakeable signs of self awareness, I would panic and ctrl-alt-delete that shit so fast.
Maybe its better if we DMT-and-lasers our way into a plan before we start banging on the glass.
I’d just sims harder but that’s just me
They go for a swim without a ladder when they displease the elder gods.
This is the way
Last Thursdayism is when they reload the save
That’s assuming the someone running the simulation is even aware we are here. For all we know, they’re just trying to model out the behavior of stars and black holes.
That’s why we should get all up in each others’ holes
Roll up a simulation joint and get simulation high
Absurdism is your friend. If nothing matters in the long run, if all of existence is absurd, why not enjoy the here and now?
yes, been a fan of Camus’s philosophy since i was 16ish
That’s just a primed and guided trip lol
Didn’t you know? In addition to trains tech bros also invented psychedelics
According to the dude, people with no foreknowledge also saw the same things. “Seeing the code of the matrix” definitely sounds better than “DMT enhances random patterns”.
Is that a curable condition?
Yeah I can walk you through treatment. We’re just going to need a little DMT
Laser eye damage? Not so much
DMT https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_terephthalate
uwu polyester me daddy
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.
I never needed the laser
right?.. just a DMT vape huh?
I’m old dude, we didn’t have vapes: if you wanted to meet your higher self you had to use a bong or a pipe
I’ll buy that for a dollar.
Here, you want a mind fuck? I’ll let you have it for free:
Bell’s Theorem: The universe is not locally real (either the speed of light is violable or properties of things do not exist until observed). Light simultaneously takes all paths, and so does everything else if given the right conditions. We just perceive “Location” as a property things have because of probability and the fact that all of the other potential locations have probability functions that average out to zero (not a quantum physicist, so probably not using quite the right terms there). “Everything” literally is “Everywhere, All At Once”. The world that we perceive is nothing more or less than a vast ocean of waves within overlapping fields. The interference between the waves, the troughs and crests, are the objects we perceive. Nothing is truly as you see it, even yourself. Also, the force of gravity doesn’t exist. Time just passes slower near massive objects.
That’s the best I can do for ya. First hit’s free.
I don’t see how these facts of physics say anything about our reality being simulated? Or even contradicting if we really exist etc? I mean they can get your imagination going sure but being able to verify the human experience is the penultimate arbiter
Yeah, drugs and looking into lasers will definitely change your brain, no doubt. Dunno if I want advice from someone who does that, tho…
Not gonna see much it he keeps putting lasers in his eyes
Ever seen vape smoke in lasers… On weeeeeed
“yeah yeah the simulation lasers, we’ve all seen it”
In our lanoratory I remember an warning sign:
Do not look at the laser with the remaining eye !!
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.
Same lmao
Pretty sure he’s misunderstanding interference patterns
Anyone else get “Thinking quickly, Dave constructs a homemade megaphone, using only some string, a squirrel, and a megaphone.” vibes.
I still think of that scene at least once a month and giggle!
Sorry out of the loop here - what’s this a scene from?
KYM Entry about the scene
Thank you!
Well, a friend of mine took acid with a TV in the room, and it enabled him to see what was behind the signal, between the scanlines, on the other side of the picture. He then saw the message that held the secret to unlocking the truth of the universe.
It said: LSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSDLSD
Bro is about to reinvent shamanism
“Let’s see how close I can get the lasers to my eyes without going blind…”
Oh my god, I knew it! He’s crackred the code!!
The word “just” before the words “DMT vape” is doing heavier lifting than a crane at a shipyard
What do you mean? You can’t source mimosa root in bulk locally? Lol! Clearly not ready to start your own cult. SMH my head
I did that with LSD 40 years ago.
“Could you see the day? Could you feel your whole world fall apart and fade away?
Get along, get along, Kid Charlemagne Get along, Kid Charlemagne”
Waiter, waiter! More headlines like this please
This guy needs to jack off more.
I think we all need to jack off more. People are wound far too tight these days.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but people, please do not take psychedelics and put lasers near your eyes.
Emphasis on AND. Putting lasers near your eyes is a sober activity.
This is true. Laser Doppler Vibrometry and Atomic Force Microscopy are two legitimate examples of using lasers near your eyes while sober.
Im working my way up intensity to build an immunity. I’m all the way to class IV indirect. Hoping to achieve direct by the next eclipse so I don’t need my Raybans.
When you gain the superpower to shoot lasers from your eyeballs, I am going to have a few contracts for you.
I’m sorry, I thought this was America!
Do not take psychedelic with remaining eye.
laser light has this way of enhancing interference patterns as it spreads out, this is why it has weird looking patterns when projected in a wide angle.
This is also probably what the person in this post was seeing and tripping on, staring directly into a laser pointer while high as balls.
It appears to be on some sort of apparatus that can make it draw a line, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some gimmick that makes it actually draw cryptic letters or something too
Take psychedelics, why not, go for it.
Put lasers near your eyes, absolutely.
But never, EVER, take psychedelics
and ALWAYS put salt in your eyes!
The dmt is doing the heavy lifting there.
I was just about to say😅 with enough dmt anything is a simulation. Lasers are just for aesthetics
Does Dmt know something we don’t?
Your body knows dmt should deployed at the time of death. Maybe its uploading you to the cloud.
I always wanted to be with the fluffy stuff. Great!
Spill the dmtee
Like the Kumail Nanjiani joke about a new drug called “cheese,” made by mixing Tylenol PM with heroin.
If anyone was curious the reason for “cheese” is to turn black tar heroin into a snortable powder. It’s not really well known because people who buy tar smoke it or inject it and if you wanted to snort heroin you would just buy powder form, but powder used to be hard to find on the west coast until fentanyl became big.
Dimethyltryptamine. Shit‘s got the TRYP already in the name bro.
Even if we were in a simulation, we only exist inside of it and knowledge of whether or not we are “real” doesn’t actually change our interaction with the time and space inside our universe.
The only thing one could do with knowledge of being in a simulation, is trying to find bugs and exploits.
From now on, I expect anyone claiming we live in a simulation to have a working perpetual motion device, faster that light communication, or something similarly impressive. If they don’t, their claim is
meaninglessuseless.Just because they can’t find exploits in a simulation sophisticated enough to run a seemingly infinite universe doesn’t mean there’s no simulation.
I know, but otherwise there is no use for the knowledge that we live in a simulation. Unless someone can contact the outside of course.
No, but it does mean they have no evidence of being in a simulation.
Which is about as meaningless as saying we live in a universe dreamed up by Azathoth.
Great, I’ve been suffering through Capitalism and now I have to learn that it’s not even real Capitalism.
It’s failing just like real capitalism. Or succeeding I guess…if you’re a sociopath.
Theory is that the human (and maybe other) brain creates a simulation of the world experienced through the senses and that ‘you’ interact with that. Everybody has their own simulation, no code to speak of. Drugs can ‘hack’ it by messing with the simulation and perception.
Not sure how you can it these days, but I recommend static on a TV over this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubFq-wV3Eic
It didn’t work
It’s AI - I watched the whole thing.
What I mean is - youtube compression destroys the effect. And why do you think it’s AI?
Heheh. Reminds me of the guy I knew who did a DMT trip and claimed to be able to see between the atoms and retrieve lost memories.
Maybe the lost memories were meant to stay lost? Who knows what eldritch horrors we uncover? I think the lost memories should stay that way: lost.
Bring on the lost memories, if the world ends in abject horror, well it’s only speeding up what’s happening.
Memory is one of the weirdest things about the human experience, it’s still relatively unknown how we store and “revisit” memories on some levels, and our memories are not records like photographs or data on a hard-drive, they’re really more like saved simulations that you rerun every time you bring them up, this is why they can be so radically wrong or distorted from actual events. Every time you run that simulation your brain will “smooth out the edges” and fill in gaps with whatever it predicts should be there.
Your brain is so good at doing this, that you can easily wire yourself to have false memories. Most people are unsettled by this prospect but you can use it for fun! Example: I have altered my own memory of the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow” to also include Frankenstein’s Monster as one of the dangers of the frozen world, and have clear memories of Frankenstein’s Monster clomping around with his pack of wolves looking for the protagonist. Great movie, highly recommend you watch and re-write in your mind.
I read about this idea before with a tidbit about how because of this your best and worst memories are your least reliable. Cool thought!
I remember being taught something that resembles the idea, you wrote, when I took a course on cognition during my PhD. Memory is probably the most fascinating aspect of cognition to me, TBH.
Crazy people were spreading stupid shit like this on youtube for decades but I would really like to know why Vice thinks this is newsworthy now. Did the society became so stupid that being an idiot influences is now a valid profession?
Idiots get clicks and clicks make line go up
Slow news day at their office
Yeah.
being a court fool or village idiot have been professions too. The problem nowdays is that too many people look up to the idiots as someone to seriously listen to, not as entertainment.
Remember the dude with the immortality rings?
No and I’m afraid to ask.
Alex Chiu. It’s not as funny as it should be but it’s still funny.
Alex Chiu? I think that is his name…I haven’t thought about those in years.
I didn’t know DMT came in vape form. What a time to be alive.
well it’s always vaporized, burning it will destroy it…
but it turns out, with a little chemistry you can put anything into a vape
I’m a thing, Greg. Can you put me in a vape?
With the right tools, yes. I could vape you.
sure, i just need a crematorium, and a mortar and pestle…
I suddenly regret my taunt…
My son and I have been watching the new season of Wednesday, and I could not help but read this comment in Jenna Ortega’s voice.
What do you taste like?
Only once.
Where DMT pen
He’s the Messiah…
This article makes me regret telling elon about simulation theory at burning man that one time
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/57aa88af-7266-4daa-b519-3fbcaa173a3b.gif">
The dude’s fully learned advanced physics?
Comments all seem to refer to an article and this post doesn’t link to any article. ? (edit: never mind, I looked up the name and I don’t need to see anything more).
Hmm if I say that if you add magic mushrooms to the mix you can change the simulation to your advantage, will you follow me? I could use the extra cash.