This is a whole lot of words to say “I don’t want us to be living in a simulation” - the problem being that there is no proof either way. This lack of determinism makes it excellent source material for a wordy and pompous article, conflating whether with desire; dragging religion (which is orthogonal to whether) into the mix, and dabbling with authoritarianism, philosophy, and sexism along the way.
If you make a statement like “we are not living in a simulation” I want to see some actual rationale for that, not frantic hand-waving and attempts to obscure the statement. I have no clue whether we are (or not) living in some high-order simulation, but this article does nothing to clarify that.
This is a whole lot of words to say “I don’t want us to be living in a simulation” - the problem being that there is no proof either way. This lack of determinism makes it excellent source material for a wordy and pompous article, conflating whether with desire; dragging religion (which is orthogonal to whether) into the mix, and dabbling with authoritarianism, philosophy, and sexism along the way.
If you make a statement like “we are not living in a simulation” I want to see some actual rationale for that, not frantic hand-waving and attempts to obscure the statement. I have no clue whether we are (or not) living in some high-order simulation, but this article does nothing to clarify that.
Not a simulation. An illusion.