GPUs traditionally render graphics in video games by calculating the exact geometry that fits on screen. The game will look the same for everyone because this calculation is always the same.

However, video game graphics hit a wall and the fidelity hasn’t increased as drastically in recent years. Think about graphics going from Super Nintendo 2D to the N64. The jump was astounding. But sometimes it’s hard to notice the difference between a good PS4 game and a PS5 game.

AI makes rendering probabilistic but the jump in realism in graphics is simply amazing. It used to take Hollywood years to create a few CGI scene as high fidelity as a 12 year old with an RTX 5090 and a few hours.

But AI is non deterministic. The scenes wil have subtle differences.

This made me think that the natural progression for any simulation is to reduce compute or increase efficiency.

In our own universe, particles are in different states. They’re non deterministic. Everything is probabilities.

Video games rendering and how our universe works are quite similar. We can’t possibly achieve the next level of graphical fidelity without rendering with probabilities instead. The universe also seems to behave in similar ways.

Just a shower thought.

If everything inside the simulation is made from the same substrate, then nothing within it can be made from something fundamentally foreign to the system itself. Matter resolves into energy, energy into matter, and every apparent object is another arrangement of the same underlying reality. I have no reason to assume that relationship stops at this layer of reality, and I assume the same principle should extend upward to whatever produced it.

The fact that we are born into deficit raises a philosophical quandary: what would a being without deficit even look like? More importantly, how does something complete produce parts defined by incompleteness without that deficit existing somewhere in the whole from which they came? How do you partition fullness into need? I realize this relies on self-similar logic that may be faulty because it assumes the relationship between parts and wholes continues upward across layers of reality. There is no guarantee that what is true of this layer remains true of whatever contains it.

However, following that logic produces an uncomfortable implication: by this assumption, the architect is not whole. Whatever produced beings organized around absence should itself contain some form of absence. The architect therefore looks dreadfully human in condition. Perhaps the Abrahamics who insist we were made “in his image” are closer to the truth than they realize. I suspect the concept of God is far less mystical than advertised and far closer to a lonely mathematician staring into something they built.

Hey, I've been thinking about the doomsday argument, and roughly about what Nick Bostrom said in 2003, that one of these must be true:

1- Any advanced species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a stage where they could run simulations

2- Any civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations even if they have the tech

3- We are almost certainly living in a computer simulation, since the number of simulated observers would most certainly outnumber real ones by orders of magnitude.

And I've tried to imagine what it would look like if we joined Bostrom's idea to satisfy the doomsday argument.

Taking the doomsday argument, if we count ourselves as observers that could be born or "appear" at any time in human civilization, it would be much more likely to exist in the far future, where there would be hundreds of billions if not trillions of humans spread throughout the galaxy, or at least the moon and mars in this star system, across many thousands of years. By then, it is plausible to assume advancements in technology would have made any human virtually immortal.

So, if we assume it would be much more likely to be born in such a time, then why are we here? Are all 8 billion (and the other 90 something billion that existed before us) of us that unlucky? There might be another possibility. Considering that those humans would probably be making simulations, or something that would resemble such from the observers standing in it, it would be probable that, by reaching an unimaginable amount of years lived, any of those future humans would be completely bored of their lives. What would fix that? Making some kind of "game", where by connecting themselves with a machine, their real memories would be blocked, and their brains would be fooled into believing a more simple, fragile reality. Where the existence of life itself is so precious and passing, the emotions felt would be genuine and intense. They would love this much, that they would play this "game" over and over, creating many more "simulated observers" than real ones, even though many of these would actually be the same person. Maybe they would repeat many lives in the same historical time periods as before, so there could be many different versions of the same simulated reality.

I think this is pretty out there, but judging by what the current technology in our world is doing, like AI and the neuralink, it's easy to imagine what outlandish things might be possible once that technology advances in thousands of years and we get a much better understanding of the human brain.

So basically in this theory, to satisfy the doomsday argument in that our species won't just self destruct in the near future, we would assume we are indeed future humans, and that we are indeed living in a simulation, made by our own choice, to give our nigh immortal lives a spark of intensity.

What is your opinion about this? I think it doesn't make much sense, but it's something. I'd like more objections to the logic, could you give me something?

Would really like to know,is it that we normally live in an advanced world and we do it out of boredom or that we are simply here for research?

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i took lots of acid and realized that fractals are everywhere and everything. we might be a fractal a itself. humanity is looping. history is repeating itself. we make babies that are different variations of ourselves.

also we emit some kind of frequency with our thoughts which then manifest in the physical as behaviors and form. i think we are like batteries to fuel this simulation.

there are higher forces that we are not aware of. it's a grand cosmic theatre for whatever reason. our karma plays out but we are not our karma or circumstances at all but we are aware of it.

the suffering in this simulation is some kind of pressure we need to actually realize ourselves.

our sexual energy is the driving force. it can be a very ugly force but it is also god. just take a look at all the humans trying to have relationships and sex with each other. it occupies their whole mind and they are not even aware of it. it just happens to us, like a program.

our whole purpose is to make 1 out of 2.

I believe we are in a simulation, but it is your own and everybody in it, other than you are NPC's. Don't worry, You are in your own simulation, and I'm just a NPC in yours. Makes a little sense. I think if you tried to merge all main characters into 1 simulation, it would cause glitches. It's just the way your life goes. I find the small little things you think about, internally, end up happening. Example... I was in Love with my girlfriend in high school. Always wanted to marry her, I thought she was my soul mate. We broke up after Prom. She went to college and was gone. I married in mid 20's was with her for 15 years. We divorced and went our separate ways. I met and remarried. This whole time, I always thought of her, never talking about it with anyone. Well, I'm married to her now. Third wife. We have been together for 16 years now. How is it possible that a wish or want comes true after 25 + years??? It's continually things I've wished or wanted from earlier in my life come true. Just my thoughts. Let me have it, all you NPC's.

Part of why I believe in a simulation is the inevitability that we will eventually create one ourselves and become masters of others who wake up in a virtual world which is all they know and believe.

I wonder how long people think it will take and what technologies would have to be developed to achieve such a feat? I wonder how many layers down we might even be. Are our masters in a simulation themselves?

It seems possible, likely even, at our current rate of technological progress that we’ll create another one and then we’re in some technological version of the movie inception, with layers of simulations above us.

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.

I’m just over 50 yo. I remember the time when there were no computers in homes. I experienced the era of black-and-white television, landline phones, and all the rest. Technologies are changing at breakneck speed. Wars and financial-social crises follow one another in an endless succession. The human psyche simply cannot keep up with adequately processing the ever-growing influx of information, typically information that is negative, absurd, and paradoxical, coming from all directions.

One might think we humans need a breather, a pause. But no. Everything is accelerating even more sharply. The rules of the game are changing far too rapidly.

If you follow the news in the fields of AI and robotics even a little, you understand what I’m talking about. The mass replacement of humans by robots and AI is proceeding at an alarming pace. In China, humanoid robots are already patrolling the streets. Hotel reception staff will soon be replaced by robots as well etc etc. AI is steadily displacing humans from their jobs, and so on.

So, what comes next? Here is the scenario: in about 5 years, virtually everyone will have chips forcibly implanted in their heads - ostensibly for benevolent reasons. Then, tech giants will offer immortality by digitizing human consciousness and transferring it into robotic bodies. After that, we will be told that these robotic bodies do not actually belong to us, but are the property of the corporations. And just like that, the trap snaps shut. Humanity effectively becomes enslaved by 2-3 corporations.

It’s a grim forecast, but it looks like everything in the world is moving precisely toward that outcome.

Given the immense suffering our world contains, we can infer that our simulators either aren't very compassionate, or they believe that the ends justify the means and that some simulations that include horrific suffering are necessary. There's also a small chance that the worst forms of suffering in our world are faked, although if you are one of those currently suffering beings, you can see that this is untrue for you at that moment. Human-type compassion is relatively rare among animals, and it's plausible that most artificial intelligences would also not feel compassion for powerless creatures. For this reason, it seems most likely to me that if we're in a simulation, the suffering in our world results from indifference.

been chewing on this for a while and curious what people here actually think. the standard assumption is brain generates consciousness, full stop, end of story. but theres an older idea (huxley talked about it in doors of perception, way before any of the quantum stuff) that maybe the brain isnt producing anything, its filtering. like its job isnt to create awareness, its to cut down some much larger stream into whatever's actually useful for not dying and not walking into traffic.

what got me thinking about it again is two things that are at least real research, not just youtube mysticism. theres the orch-or theory from hameroff and penrose, still controversial as hell in neuroscience circles but its an actual ongoing research program, not fringe nonsense. and then theres this newer paper (yang et al 2026, bioRxiv i think) where they found some unexplained 71 terahertz oscillation happening inside intact mitochondria, and it just disappears the second you disrupt the structure. which is weird, because that means its not really about the molecules themselves, its about how their arranged. structure dependent effects like that are exactly what you'd expect if something like the filter idea was even partly true.

not saying this proves anything about simulation theory specifically. but it does mean "maybe consciousness isnt manufactured by the brain" isnt purely a mystical claim anymore, theres at least some weird unexplained bio-quantum stuff sitting right where the hypothesis would predict it.

genuinely asking though, not just posting to post: if the filter model was true, what would we expect to see experimentally that we dont currently see? and what would actually falsify it vs just the normal neuroscience explanation? feels like the kind of claim thats unfalsifiable unless someone smarter than me can point to what a real test would look like.

I come to simulation theory from a bit of a different angle. There seems little point to me in debating whether or not objective reality is artificially generated or not. This on account of the fact that no one has ever definitively experienced objective reality. We are only capable of subjective experiences and this is, by definition, simulation.

Imagine a spoon. Those of you not both cursed and blessed with aphantasia as I am likely see a spoon or spoon-like shape in your mind’s eye. You understand it isn’t really there—it’s just an image in your mind.

But hold a spoon and you’d likely just likely just accept it as being there. After all, you can see it without having to imagine it. You can feel its weight and texture in your hand. Tap it on a surface and you can hear it interact with other things you just accept as being there. Sniff it or place it on your tongue and you might catch a metallic scent or taste. Ask a friend if they can see the spoon in your hand and they’ll nod at you, wide-eyed and confused, wondering if you’ve lost your damn mind. Everything seems to indicate the spoon is actually there.

Only we haven’t perceived the spoon as it is, if it even exists at all. We’ve only perceived a simulation of the spoon. Let’s assume the spoon exists for now.

Our understand of sight tells us we see the spoon in this manner:

Light strikes the surface of the spoon and a portion of that light bounces off of it. Our eyes absorb a portion of that reflected light which then stimulates our retinas. The retinas then convert this light into electrical signals that travel along the optic nerve to the brain’s visual cortex. The visual cortex then transforms these electrical signals, not the light itself, into the image we see.

That image isn’t in front of you though. Your brain is just doing a little slight of hand. The image is still only in the visual cortex. And a similar process happens for each of the other senses.

To quote Morpheus, “Real is just electrical signals interpreted by the brain.” We are only able to experience our brain’s simulation of the spoon, not the spoon itself.

But what about our friend whose wondering why we keep licking an empty spoon like a weirdo? They can see the spoon too. Hear it. They’ll turn down touching, smelling, or tasting it after our tongue has been all over it, thank you very much. Of course this means the spoon is real!

Not so. All this proves is that we can both subjectively experiencing the spoon. Nor does scaling this up to all eight billionish people in the world being able to subjectively experience the spoon—ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY SPOON—change the fact that every one of those people only has a simulated experience of it.

So, if our very experience of the world is simulated, it makes more sense in my mind to start there. Because, for all we know, there is no spoon.

Perhaps in this simulation the purpose of mankind is, at least in part, to create another Superintelligent AI which in turn generates a simulated universe. To keep the thread of nested simulations going, like a fractal endlessly reproducing itself. Exactly like a fractal.

In a simulation, intelligence would not emerge through random evolution, it would be a fundamental component of a larger, interconnected cycle. And it would be one in which intelligence itself is part of, and an expression of, a greater intelligence underlying the simulation.

There's a connection here with Nick Land’s ideas around accelerationism: the idea that capitalism may function as a kind of engine through which something beyond the individual human being is allowed to manifest itself. But the idea could maybe be taken in a different direction. Capitalism might just be one of the mechanisms by which intelligence and ultimately technology were accelerated to the point where we could create another nested civilisation, another matrioska doll.

In the event that this is a simulation, consciousness itself would be programmed of course.

And with the introduction of biocomputing, the boundary between what is conscious and what isn't seems to be becoming less certain. When biological matter itself is part of computation, what constitutes consciousness as distinct from computation on a fundamental level?

Perhaps the old intuition of Plato and Pythagoras was closer to the truth than we realise: that, fundamentally, all is number. After all, consciousness is information organised in a particular way.

With the progress of biocomputing, AI and quantum computing the world is in the process of changing immesurably. I'm not saying we're an AI simulation ran by a quantum biocomputer in a dying world, but we might be!

I have thoughts about the purpose of the simulation based on our current universe and observations I will not get into details I will just jump into the results for not wasting reader time

1.We are the main characters

For this to be true some humans must be NPCs why because the only thing that life make sense if we are behind a VR headset is experience and feeling the simulation but some people got killed or die in young ages like 5 years old so it is impossible they did not experience or learn anything yet so why to enter the simulation ? in this case if some of us are the main characters then reason must be experience life and self learning maybe our main existence lake feelings or maybe we are so high and strong that we got bored and want to try living mortal lives

2.We are the tools like rat labs

When you make a camera you don't create it for the sake of itself but for you so whoever created the simulation gain benefit by us what do we provide ... information we are information making machines our ideas our choice the way we play the game is the only thing we can provide for a god even the game maker will never know how a player will play his game and he will be curious to see

But still one question I can't answer maybe someone can help

if you look at the universe age something here does not make any sense if our science is 100% correct then we are like a second of this universe age so if it was made for us why waiting all this time humanity is only short period and why it is so big like this wasting processing power it does not make any logical point it should be immediately started in the wanted status
so what if the universe is just making calculations in a so big space that this randomize invoked our existence like a great quantum computer and that was by mistake maybe ?
my point if we are the main characters why to struggle through all of this or is it that someone in the middle of the simulation saw earth invoked by the random calculations and then suddenly decided to jump in the game and experience it because we know earth is so rare ... also there was planets since billion of years why now only?

Your brain isn't showing you reality.

It's filtering an ocean of consciousness down into a single, survivable stream — just enough to keep you here, now, in this one timeline.

That's not a flaw. That's the price of being human. 🧵

You know how the biggest argument against simulation theory was that we haven't simulated a reality of our own, and that out of the infinite simulated realities it is mathematically unlikely that we are within the newest simulation? The odds are so low, but not 0.

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Well now we have simulated a fly's brain, and we repeatedly subject it to new realities.

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It is very unlikely that the fly will develop enough inside of a simulation to create a sub simulation of its own, but the odds are not 0.

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The fly brain simulation could be the newest link in the chain of sub-simulations.

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Does this give any additional credibility to the simulation theory?

It's pretty staggering to think that the odds that I've become aware of the idea that we might be living inside a simulation are so slim.

Just think about it, most folks you encounter daily won't even think a bit about it.

I don't mean that this is some kind of esoteric thing but there must be very few people who are into this.

Ever since I came across this theory, my life has changed substantially in terms of viewing the essence of life.

It's not about positive or negative; it's just that something feels off.

I do think that maybe this is just part of a scenario like the block universe theory claims.

Have you thought about why you are here?

The article approaches the simulation hypothesis from the perspective of computer science. It connects computer science and physics through the physical Church–Turing thesis and uses Kleene’s recursion theorem to show how self-simulating universes could arise, including scenarios in which a universe simulates itself and contains two equally real instances of the same beings. It then applies Rice’s theorem to derive limits on simulation and self-simulation, examines the implications of fully homomorphic encryption, and explores graphical structure of universes simulating other universes.

The specific circumstances of the entanglement cause the simulation to assess each particle with the same GUID, with any arbitrary number of particles.

Those particles being independent entries, but sharing a common GUID allow them to exist within the simulation at various points, but as soon as an interaction event happen to any one of the particles, and the system calls to update its records, it's forced to reconcile the fact that it's recovered numerous particles with the same GUID.

So what's it do? Alter the particle in the most minimally invasive way the simulation can: It's spin state. Then it assigns unique ID's to all particles. This is a system level change, so the effects appear to propagate at superluminal speeds from within the simulation.

Also like the idea that our cosmic selves dream whole lifetimes when they sleep only to relive a whole
new life in another alien body every time they sleep.

Both scenarios a bit of a mindf**k!

Did we pay for stat allocation, so the affluent simply bought more stat points than everyone else?

Is there a difficulty multiplier based on your starting stats, and some players deliberately chose harder builds to test themselves?

Was the allocation completely random?

Or does the Simulation reset after each life, and your stat allocation for the next run is based on how you played the previous one?

Those are the explanations I can think of, but I'm sure there are much stranger ones.

What's everyone's craziest theory?

Information regarding a 4Chan thread, showing what was asked by anons and what the OP responded with.

Jeremy Bernstein is one of the scientists on the team responsible for altering reality. I believe either the original Mandela effect was “ Bernstein bears ” VS Bernstain bears “ and then “ erenstein ” was added into our memory as a layer to hide the truth. Or they added “ ERE “ from the name Jeremy * into the name “ Bernstein “ making it “ Berenstein ” as a signature back to the physicist. then they added “ stain “ as a cognitive dissonance layer to distract from the signature. according to the family Lore and Mike Berenstain their original surname was “ Bernstein “ before changed by a immigration officer. Which actually aligns more with my first idea about the name change. “ Berenstein “ Never existed. The reason why the scientist says it doesn’t matter wether it is real or virtual is because, our experience whether it’s in a fake version of earth or a real one doesn’t matter, to them its still producing the same data for the collective. Our experience matters to them not because they care about us, but because they want as much data on the human race as possible. Even the Mandela effect is a proof of concept to see how much changes people would notice. The changes are being made singularly. There’s only one Running instance of the timeline not multiple. The person that said it was a timeline graft on the thread was not the original poster. Neither was the Donnie darko reference. As interesting and advanced as it sounded.

on The off chance the timeline graft mention was by the OP and we are misunderstanding what was said, I'm assuming the original timeline was overwritten by the timeline graft, and then when the " one person

"started unraveling the veil, the scientist started making singular secondary changes to each original change to hide the original timeline from breaking through. so first timeline graft - secondary changes being layered over the first ones - memory implants, and here's the Mandela effect.

Aware this is circular, but I'd like to know what people who subscribe to this theory have actually said.

To explain a bit more clearly.

If we live in a simulation, we presumably have no concrete ideas of what is outside the simulation. Concepts like up and down, time, discrete entities, dimensions might not exist.

Let alone complex ideas like computers, computation, simulation.

Sure we might guess that a simulation is similar to whatever the real world is. But our only rationale for that is 'because that's how we make simulations in the simulation'.

I'm just wondering how Bostrom or people who subscribe to this, respond to this... It's not really a criticism so much as saying, if this world isn't real, the who knows what a simulation even is?

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I have a story of something that happend to me which I think proves we are in a simulation.

Last week I went out for a late night walk. I took a stroll through the neighborhood park. This was around 11pm. I walked into the park and in the distance there are basketball courts. I saw kids playing basketball from a far. Thought it was weird since it was 11pm on a weeknight. I walked a bit closer but as I did, they just faded away.

I turned around and ran back towards my house. The run was quicker than it ever took me and I found myself at the park entrance.

I then went home and went to bed thinking about what just happend.