• jack [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    Do universal simulationists believe in an anthropocentric simulation? They really gotta go all the way to reinventing a personal god who cultivates all of creation around human experience while remaining invisible and omniscient, but this time it’s a robot they’re inside of.

    • NuraShiny [any]@hexbear.net
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      21 hours ago

      When your all mighty creator is an alien grad student with a spare raspberri Pi to run a 3d universe sim on for extra credit.

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      24 hours ago

      Makes sense they appeal to similar groups and both provide naive comfort of an unfalsifiable metaphysics instead of having to deal with the discomfort of the unknown and not knowing.