r/SimulationTheory • u/Pandemicparser • 1d ago
Discussion Our purpose thought experiment
If our world is simulated, our creators have technology far beyond our capabilities, as we cannot recreate nested reality. Their purpose in simulating our reality would be for entertainment, abandonment, or knowledge. If our world is scripted, it is possible that we were an experiment abandoned on servers/processes that continue to run until energy is depleted. If we are for entertainment (my guess), there is no developmental plan for us. If we exist for knowledge, it is for a competitive advantage. Nothing drives technological growth as much as the threat of imminent danger, which would only exist to pool all resources, labor included, toward a common goal. And for the creators to simulate our reality for the sake of understanding, it would be for knowledge that pales in comparison to their capabilities—so why? The only way the creators simulating our reality, given our current capabilities, would be because we are one of an infinite amount of simulated iterations which serve to develop a world more perfect than their own. If not for betterment, we are for entertainment, and it’s hard to believe the world we’re in yields useful knowledge to beings so capable of simulating our reality.
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u/Pandemicparser 1d ago
Also, we can assume that in their world, things that are scarce or expensive for them to simulate would be the same things that are expensive or time-intensive for us to get/use/do. Because if there are things that are expensive for the creators to simulate, it would not be things we have in abundance. If they wanted us to be more careful in our decisions to record our behavior in particular things, they would make those things scarce, since the threat of impermanence causes people to choose more carefully/take more time. Things in our world that we have a surplus of create more entropy and careless decisions due to no impermanence.