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Confirmed We Live in a Simulation

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Just a heads-up, this is an April Fools joke.

While I don't mind a clever April Fools joke, I do wish that things were clearly marked as such afterwards.

Living in Australia it means at least 48-72 hours of "Oh, right, it's an April Fools joke" as the timezones pass.

That's what a simulation would want you to believe!

So posting clickbait is now an April Fool's joke.

I don't see it as an April fools joke. It's more like a half satirical editorial piece with a clickbaity title. And the last paragraph sums up that it's not meant seriously.

Joke or not... there's actually a lot of sound logic...

I mean, I never thought about the limits to things like the speed of light could be set because of the limits of the OS running our simulation... and the easiest solution to the fermi paradox -- is the one where we're the only thing because we're all the simulation allowed for.

So, while it may have been a joke, it definitely provides some thoughts to back up, but I wouldn't say it's "confirmed"....

Confirmed would be a message printed on a proton smashed by the LHC saying, "you're in the matrix".

Confirmed would also be peer-reviewed and on every news station on earth (well, not fox or oann).

I've now accepted that I live in a simulation. The harder reality to swallow is that I'm probably a non-player character.

I hate both April Fool's Day and the simulation hypothesis, and for much the same reason: they seem pointless, even childish.

Not only pointless, but a majority would even vote to forbid the dissemination of fake news under penalty of law (regardless on which day), see https://www.statista.com/statistics/1026239/criminal-offence...

Now that we've discovered that, I'm afraid the entity running the simulation just thinks "13.8 billion years before it happened", hits Ctrl-C and restarts with different initial conditions.

The artifact is as an additional component of every operation that is unaffected by the magnitude of the variables being operated upon and is irrelevant within the simulated reality until a maximum variable size is observed.

I don't think that's a good description of the speed of light. Lorentz contraction kicks in well before the limit.

When was it posted? The give-away for me was the tag line "We must never doubt Elon Musk again".

April First.

Happy liars' day.

Bad timing

you got me

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