I see stuff like this and then ponder whether I'm living in someone's weekend project... it'd be pretty interesting to discover the universe is a simulation, but it'd also kinda suck.
It also means that there is the potential to exploit the simulation, and take advantages of the corner cases - which may also get us shut down, but we would likely never know it happened, so it's almost without penalty.
Great movies, but may be seem somewhat dated if you're new to them as they're late 90's fare. I still love both of them.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor
[1]: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1089671-13th_floor
Bostrom's original paper (which proposed the "simulation hypothesis") doesn't define it properly that I can see.
It's a very late C20 / early C21 computer technology phrase - because we make models and simulations, and nest things in our computers, we think it is a meaningful concept about our universe.
How would we know our reality is a simulation, vs. e.g. an "alternate dimension"? Or something much subtler that we have no understanding of?
It won't be a "computer" simulation, and I doubt it'll be running on top of a turing machine. There'll be something more interesting and complex going on - perhaps metaphorically analogous to a simulation, but a richer, more alien thing than that.
All the world's a simulation,
and all the men and women merely objects.
They have destructors and constructors;
And each one in its run morphs poly timesWe could all be staring at placeholders (if even that) while believing we are interacting with a complex, fully defined world - in the meantime, the simulation modifies our consciousness(es) to smooth over any gaps in what could actually be a crudely defined generative world.
You mean a text adventure?