Timeline for How do we tell if we're living in a virtual reality world?
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| Aug 22, 2016 at 17:15 | comment | added | SOFe | You probably can't stop the VR by doing something in the VR, but you can find the output part of the program that interacts with the creators. Maybe the machine has tentacles that can bang on itself and destroy the processor. Or you can invent something that will overheat the processor. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 16:07 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | For the record, I wasn't actually advocating self-annihilation. I admitted in my opening line that there was a lot wrong with my answer, that it was chance-y and might not work.. If anything, I was only demonstrating that some questions are too expensive to ask... even attempting to find an answer could cost us everything. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 14:24 | comment | added | Devsman | Kinda like how we realized we were in a simulation when we discovered that orbits were not exactly circles. People more convinced that we were in an actual reality would have instead assumed that our previous models were imperfect and reworked the models to make them match our observations. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 14:14 | comment | added | MatthewRock | It's just that the post is based on assumptions that I find hardly believeable. We might not be the only intelligent species. Post-atomic Earth might be the best part. Other part of the universe might be the best part. Actual destruction might be the best part(look at how many wars we had!); The idea could work, but is all-or-nothing, and the chances of succeeding are, for all we know, low; its reliability is purely based on speculations. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 12:54 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | @MatthewRock, who said anything about the purpose of the VR? Not all VRs are experimental simulations. Pokeymon Go certainly isn't. For all we know, we were created as a child's game (meant to be fun) or a work of art (meant to be beautiful). All I'm saying is that if we stop being what we are meant to be, the creator might get made enough to show itself. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 11:41 | comment | added | MatthewRock | -1; simulation is created so that you can simulate things and see what happens. Any outcome is a good outcome if we did simulation right - therefore blowing up a whole planet, solar system, or just killing your own cat won't change anything. If you make a simulation of city, then if city grows, stays the same, or dies doesn't really matter - you want to analyse few things, you don't really care about the city. Universe is just a big city. | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 18:49 | comment | added | icc97 | Piss off the VR's creator step 1) Instate unhinged President that rhymes with Ronald Frump. Step 2) Piss off the thinly skinned newly instated President. | |
| Aug 4, 2016 at 0:16 | comment | added | Henry Taylor | @ShawnV.Wilson, those are all valid points, I said that it might not work. Relying on a VR programmer's mercy is probably a bad gamble. It all depends on how badly you really want to know... | |
| Aug 3, 2016 at 21:51 | comment | added | Shawn V. Wilson | How do you know that will end the simulation? Maybe he wants to see the logical outcome of the simulation -- and global suicide is just as valid as anything else. Maybe he'd LIKE the post-apocalyptic next stage. Maybe he can't get funding for Version 2.0 as long as the first one still has a decent-sized population! | |
| Aug 3, 2016 at 16:39 | history | answered | Henry Taylor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |