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.
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.
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.
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.
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.