Is Reality Real? The Simulation Argument 

Raymond Ho 😂hahah

I think this video makes the same mistake most of the other videos regarding living in a simulation do and that you significantly over estimate the compute capacity that would be required. You did realize that only what we are currently observing actually needs to be rendered (which some videos don’t) but then you leapt to the assumption that all of the inhabitants of the simulation must be conscious - and that’s far from a forgone conclusion. Perhaps “Earth 2000” has a single player mode. In that case, the simulation could run on basement console as only the actual people that you meet and interact with would need to be conscious and sentient and the rest - all the inhabitants that you’ll never interact with directly - could be simple NPC’s that follow a preprogrammed script. Or maybe our entire city is conscious? That’s only a million or so consciousnesses that would need to be simulated - which again would require far less compute power than a city-sized computer! This is especially true if our simulated environment is a historical recreation. If that were the case - the baseline for our entire world could be stored in an online, shared database rather than being generated by the simulation itself. Everything from music, TV shows, major events and even weather could be pre-programmed based on what happened in the history we’re based on - and if that’s the case, that lessens the compute requirements even further. A good simulation would allow deviations to occur from the baseline based on the actions of the players so that history could evolve and take a different course - but a massive database would be a good starting point rather than have the inhabitants create everything from scratch. Finally - I don’t think there should be much question about “IF” an advanced civilization would WANT to do this. I am part of this civilization and if I had the technology available to me today, I would want to it - maybe just to prove it could be done - and looking at the evolution of games from standalone Ultima I in the early 1980’s to the first online persistent “worlds” of Ultima Online and Everquest in the late 1990’s to the incredible advances in size and detail that we’ve achieved in just 30 years (Fallout, Red Dead Redemption II) - and the advances we’re making with AI and Machine Learning, I think it’s VERY reasonable to assert that we’ll get there sooner rather than later (if we don’t destroy ourselves) - maybe even within the next century! And there doesn’t seem to be any doubt that we’ll want to do it since the desire is already obvious and there are hundreds of possible applications/use cases that we can already imagine/envision for running these virtual worlds from entertainment to scientific. It also seems that we’ll likely have simulations that are based on our current world as well as simulations based on worlds similar to ours - but where magic is real - and also completely fictional alien simulations. Chances are that when the first simulations go live - we won’t even realize (or accept) that the AI inhabitants will be conscious and every bit as “real” as we are. No doubt this will lead to moral and ethical concerns that need to be dealt with. I have absolutely no doubt that the Christians will commission the creation of a world in which they can program in their God with all of the attributes they currently assign to him. :) It will certainly be interesting to see how that world plays out! I would like to see you do a future video which starts by accepting a hypothetical premise that we are definitely living in a simulation - and then go on to discuss the implications of that with a focus on what the possible outcomes are when we die, or when the simulation ends...for example, is the operating system keeping a running score for each of us based on how we play the game? Is a good score rewarded with advancement to the “next” simulation or a replay of the current one - or maybe even an unlocked mode where we can “go back” and replay any scene from the life we lived - or maybe do things differently? These are all capabilities that I would consider including if I were designing the simulation - so isn’t it logical to assume that the creators might have also thought that way? Anyhow - three generations in my family love your videos. I discovered them and introduced them to both my father and my son and they are now devoted watchers too. I am also happy to start every day by drinking coffee from my Kurzegast mug. Thank you for all you do!

@@Tenly2009 wtf what long winded comment is this holy shit it's longer dan mah deek

Blah On KBM So is this one! :)

@@Tenly2009 whywhywhhywhywwhywhywhywhywhwywhywhwywhwwwhywwhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhywhwywhywhy do you do this to me._.

Then they just fecking destroy the simulation 😂

erty wert wait covid 19 THEY ARE SLOWLY DESTROYING US

@@codyholbrook9036 deploy our anti virus! Sound the fire wall!

“Oh yeah that’s the new update you can also make people have a huge virus”

I dont get the reference.

Why you-

or a cheater

Lmao

Among us

@@domzilla5883 nobody cares

Not... Really? Technology can be explained on a physical, technical and theoretical level... But magic can't be, thats what makes it magic...

@@obi-wankenobi8446 explain physics UFOs display. Don’t worry, neither can physicists. Open your mind brother. We don’t know the half of it.

@@obi-wankenobi8446try explaining something you don't have the tools to, like telling a caveman to explain how you generate electricity.

just had to point out i love your profile picture

It isn’t. It is just to the universal ants.😂

GOOD POINT

So are our experiences and the connection we have with others

Yeah, even if our reality was a simulation, so what? What really is there to do about it anyway? It wouldn't change anything from my everyday life personally, I'd still just eat, drink, sleep, go to school, and carry on with my life. Everything I've done up at this point was a treasure to experience anyway!

Good thing our life isn’t a simulation.

But it's programmed that way

And we do this for *fun*

The Sims is just torturing people with extra steps

Slu-slu!

@@mrdredward129 REFERENCE

@HOW DARE YOU I was just pointing out the reference they made from Rick and Morty

@KEREM ARSLAN that's true

@KEREM ARSLAN We might be flying cars

@@ScholasticaMaan true

Plot twist: the cars are flying because the hologram is floating

This video was made in 2017 lol

yupppp

You just program in the Big Bang, the laws of physics, and let the simulation play out. Maybe you then dip in every so often to play with it, like some sort of deity, and see how the little idiots respond and worship you...

If any readers are interested in this, look up Cellular Automata and Conway's Game of Life

Did you do shrooms?

i had one when it was kind of simmiliar to the egg theory that everyone was me and everything was just a creation of my brain like a film

​@@h4lin823 I'm not you bro

@@noonesaidthat7630 Sure, of course you aren't. Carry on believing that and see how that works out for you.

@@h4lin823 Solipsism

Or has a lot of ping

More like _corrupted files_

McDonald's wifi diagnosis

whoooosh

Zomiac how is this a wooosh?

I’d fucking punch them.

id be pissed

but no pawnchy

That someone would be Munkar and Nakir

Imagine we are actually in the future but we are in a simulation currently,like a enhanced VR that allows us to relive in a past date in our conscious. Almost like time traveling through our brain

Yes like the ancient greeks for exemple.

bro i had this after DXM + weed. Total ego death, trauma for the rest of my life, it is impossible to describe

Getting too stoned while listening to tool then panic starts thinking of my existence in this body and that crazy feeling of reality itself is overwhelming

@@oskarbanino249 what did you get trauma

Very true 😂😒

Cry about it F2P

Update it when?

No it’s not cuz u get money inside it. So it’s not p2w it is get lucky, that’s how u get money here

@@itismethatguy well than the rarity for money needs to get reduced ;-;

They are free to play😂

Heavily underrated comment lmao

They should add micro transactions to the simulation 😂😂

Whoever made the simulations is probably for amusement so that makes so many stuff make sense

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Religion says, "Why not both?"

like fr tho

XD

So... did it work??

Random Person they be like oh fuck subject 300,456,342 is becoming aware, activate termination protocol

Best theory of aliens and UFOs: They are humans from the future on a “time traveling safari “. We only see them when they glitch. That’s why nobody has been attacked etc because they are us from the future.

omg! XD

DJC_ The God lol, same

Deep

DJC_ The God samee

Ya know they used to do that in I think Sims 1 or 2 or at least give you messages implying they knew it was a simulation

frrr

A gift implies a giver ? What about pain , is this to be enjoyed 😉

@@Ballarateast yes i inflict pain on myslef

Yay ( kinda sarcasm)

@@Ballarateast If there was no pain, there would be no pleasure either. Everything would just, be. Comparison and meaningfulness wouldnt exist without eachother

@melonmade707 are you also saying conversely that if there is no pleasure, there would be no pain ?

I want an update in career and financial features, mine kinda suck. Also, a new program in happinese menu sounds good. Whatever it is just fix it!

The game is indeed way too hard

they need to fix the bug where happiness status is like 10 around level 15

The difficulty level is about to get a lot higher dipshit

Fr they need to nerf depression

My player decided 16 years late he wanted to play as a female! But, he chose hardmode, so he can't pick a new character! Tbh 14, and even before... Like as early as 9 ~_~

Yah it is on purpose

They didn’t even spend any of the stat points, I’m not good at anything!

Maybe you’re your player’s ideal character though.

God is your creator

This is actually a theory within simulation theory. Basically, booting up a simulation within our own could somehow pressure the "CPU" of our own causing the universe to cease.

Judges after seeing WW2: 😐

that sounds like season 7 of the 100

Bro I can give Lopopo a glitch pass

No name hahaha 😂

Tax evasion

@@aayanashraf898 hahahaha I can't tell if you luaghing at his name or what he said so I am laughing dramatically!!!!

Please don't crash the server players.

You have to find YOU first.

@@Agramor what about John Cena ?

@@user-db8un2lm4y he gonna be alone forever😔

I think you have to do the “Go Outside” quest. Idk I haven’t actually done it yet

Me neither

big mood

Lmao greatness

that's all you

But if he is controlling you then the player is saying it soo......

Gotta use that. It’s not my fault! The programmers made me procrastinate!

He right

WinArmy : simulated or not, i still have to go to work in the morning...

@Nephilim 1333 ?

rules of the game!

Stolen comment

Luka Jayaseelan oh shit

@@Ye___89 He'll just stop in place and start mumbling lol

Brooooo

Lmao. That's literally a good ex. If we are being watched upon by someone, I wonder what they think of us questioning "Is this real or are we being controlled?"

Cool

HAHAHA our similators are getting simulated as well thats funny.

@yes Yes no

@yes Yes no No

😂😂😂

Those so ons will be doubt again'😂😂

Imagine you keep going up and you crash into an invisible wall

MyHand Gaming *Mars: coming soon!*

Lmaoooo

"200 tokens to proceed to next level"

You can buy the Mars DLC for, $10.00

Bet you've had heaps more from these guys since then lmao.

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@@brunof9961 hundred billion trillion operation per second maybe i'm think totally mind blowing calculatiom

hahahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣

😂😂😂

Ahahhhah

Same

Same, kinda

I doubt we are simulated otherwise the user/player would have shut down/reset his "Playstation" years ago. LMAO.

Jesse G. Maybe thats when we go to sleep? Or maybe for us it feels like its been years but the simulation maybe only took 5 min?

Sameee

Or maybe zen mode? Turned the timer off?

Well I am playing in hardcore then Edit: maybe not hardcore, more like normal.

Or pay to win

@@MausOfTheHouse same

@@shrutis rip

VSCWRX E ET ET ET EFWDS SAME

What if you’re controlling you??

That was... Good

@@shubin1713 lmao

or has a great sense of humor

Hannah Baker lmao adding on to my crippling college loans 😂

Wait.. did you die in the virtual world or in the real world?

stuff4ever stop

And the lesson is that radical skepticism about isn't a feasible option.

That's fucked up

Underatted as helll

"It's not a bug it's a feature" Bethesda Softworks

yep

i don’t think covid-19 is a bug, i think it was added on purpose

The gods are now playing on Titan Mode...so here it is...Covid 19...

Omg

Yeet boi, considering they're playing us lol

And if they are simulated to be simulating that we play a simulation that we call "videogames"

Simception

Ok shit

But what if we're simulating the "people" who we think are simulating us,with out even knowing it

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So true dude...Im regreting too😓😓😭😭😭😢😢

I love you

relatable... this is shit dude

@Clark Klent no he wasnt he didnt even inhale

Scary shit

@@silaskrome1648 pupipupu

It’s called DMT. Try it.

simulations is interesting , substrate is pretty boring - elon musk

RTX 20000000

hmmm, make sense

*I n t e r e s t i n g*

The tutorial came pretty late, considering humanity is about 6 million years old.

yeah lol

Love the comment

afk

*_”last seen 100,000 years ago”_*

When we die our player has been terminated even if it’s for no reason

nah, it's a giant simulation, when we're going to sleep the simulation just needs hours to save the character development for our player

Really need the guy to shut off right now lol

"Or it's also scripted I--- AAAHHHHHHHH"

i'm starting to genuinely believe in this shit

delete delete delete

"Ooh, interesting, I wonder if they'll find out and how they'll react. You could probably get some pretty high up people to get interested in your simulation, you know."

"I might have to do it..." *Presses Delete simulation button* "WHAT HAVE YOU DONEEE????"

キサンドラ yes because the controller will no longer be in control of ur emotions, rather another controller and that’s no fun

LoosingAHWF Fanboy you just ruined a funny comment by sounding like a fucken nerd shut your dumbass up

Luke harben did you just assume they have an ass?

@@lukeharben3040 lol

@@lukeharben3040 Oof

Fr tho because we are all more than what we think of

probably

You do know that if we are simulated, we don’t have free will right? So that means every thought and action you’ve had/ made was already programmed. So we aren’t smart at all. Even me commenting right now was meant to happen. If we are simulated.

@@JezzaSezza not really, u can program something to do whatever it wants. Just like the AI at Facebook that created their own language. They weren’t programmed to do that yet they still did it. Maybe we are in a simulation but we’re so intelligent to the point where we question it

@@JezzaSezza we don‘t have free will Even if we wouldn‘t live in a simulation. Free will would mean acting against the concept of cause and effect resulting to deny science

One more comment which questions me on my existence

That would be really good, because my life is a nightmare right now

imagine if you realise you were dreaming about dreaming in your dream

@@emotivelyy_ loop which will never end

Or there are Only dreams and whenever we wake up we are always in some dream world (would also somewhat suck though)

Don’t worry, it’s being updated in the next week - or, for us, the next millennia

@@lightningshox Nice , i look forward for the next patchs , it's broken for now

@@RaphpowerSGSUModding Yeah it will be updated in the next uhhhhh *GOOGOL YEAR*

Do you mean googleplex?

@@lightningshox or maybe it was updated just now but we just didnt notice because it didnt only change how we _will_ experience love but also how we already have, basically changing our whole lives i need to got to sleep----

Dude! If there's a free play after death then I'm fucking killing myself right here and now.

imagine it said 100% TRUE JEDI like ... I would.... I’d be pretty proud

When you die you get sent to a new world as a god

Imagine gettin legendary skin for surviving at hardcore mode.

@@hull5697 nah I think you need to complete the game

Lol😂 that's funny

Would you like to watch an ad for the human to get CPR?

@A Frustrated Gamer yea or let's say a 15000 years ago someone got consciousness and he built a human body to ride on just an assumption :) (well I doubt he built it all by himself but maybe)

*mario 64 game over starts*

Then comes the respawn😂😂😂

It's funny but at the same time scary thinking that.

Yeah

I’d play that game lol

Here we have a dude we can make jump off a cliff “hahahaha” that was funny wasn’t it? Me: 0-0

Alien:woah look at that one he just blew up a city

i think something like that has happened before, they fell asleep, had a dream (it was literally a whole new life) and woke up

this is what I think could happen. Maybe we will just one day wake up and it will have been only 10 minutes since you entered "Earth: The Game", and your real memories and different brain just all come rushing back to you

You were trying I cross simulation borders, weren’t you?

@@eddykidplayzyt no.... totally not ;)

Ahh like in a dream where the time is 1/12 times slower .May be in another simulation world a guy is sleeping and dreaming which is much slower in this world and when he wakes up we are dead like the characters in our dreams 😴💭. So the guy in the simulation world is dreaming us and we are dreaming and we sometimes have someone dreaming in our dreams too. Perhaps the guy I've mentioned before is also a character of some other dream. So it might form infinite dreamers which creates the world 😂

😂😂

Hey your finally "awake"

I think we made those beings to intelligent boss

If humans ever broke the lines between simulations and reality well

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT ABOUT THIS

like assassin's creed??

@@aliyahazl Fuck 😂😂

Or we didn't want to do it for a history lesson, maybe we did it so we could live out our dreams and goals. Just think about it why do people play simulations in the first place like gta? So you can experience what it would be like to commit crimes, like rob banks and steal cars without actual real life repercussions. Also another example is why we play games that simulate us being up close to dinosaurs and experience what they were like. So maybe that's why we are all born with some type of goals we want to achieve before we die. We really just want to experience what it is like to experience our dreams without any real life repercussions ( assuming we are actually just simulations controlled by us in the future ). Maybe when we die in this life, our future selves just restart the game just like starting over in games like gta.

That's deep

But if it's a history lesson, then we did happen at some point of time

That will never happen, unless we can invent a machine thatbe as small as photon with a camera on it to film that extension

@@26d8 Except that follows some very ridgit aassumptions. For example that we cannot find a way to jump to alternative universes with different physics and use that to travel to a different place in our universe. That we cannot create a zero-point wormhole that would allow data transfer at faster than light speeds (and the wormhole generation is sound mathmatically, we would just need like the power of the whole sun to actually run it). I am optimistic that the filter of lightspeed can be overcome.

I agree. Furthermore it would make sense to create a spherical world surrounded by a cold vacuum so that your simulated beings didn't expand too far putting strain on the computer.

Did you get this from Neil tysons theory ?

@RISHI Or so disappointed that we got homeless people on the streets.

Fr tho

Oh man :DDD you killed it. I'm high and I'm reading all this :D

Man Corona virus is bug not a virus hope they fix it soon

who/what ever is controlling me take off the headset and take this dude’s advice

@@MrInNight good for you man, i'm in italy and all my pushers can't sell because of quarantine :(

Damn. My player must be the “John Titor” of the things simulating us.

END GAME? *yes* | no --

Rage quit lol

lol ,dude wtf

Ruan Schnetler lol now we know my players is retarded

They're sadistic

Not everyone is sad

for the same reasons we watch sad stories aka it's good entertainment

There's no good story without drama

@@Lucan47 this was a comment made a month ago why are people still replying lol

Mike whats your profile pic flag brother? just curious

@@konsba i think it's norway btw im from norway

@@konsba norge er best

Faith Fuldeeds yeah because im totally gonna fall for that

@@konsba It is actually the Kekistani flag lol...

Tom Keller looks like someone’s a Rick and morty fan

History is bound to....repeat its self

🖕🏿 it means peace among worlds

Aye rick and morty

Ooh la la

Timur *challenge accepted*

If u did that then Ur DEAD

bilal tausif He only dies if he bleeds out.

Are u dumb ? What he meant by that is you feel your body is made out of bubbly things when you don’t open it . If you do then obviously it’s blood which is inside .

Wow i read your comment at 1:48

Nah, it’s just bad RNG :(

XDDDD

Then I guess I'm a pro gamer 😎

@@TheoDaJunk Lmaooo

Mate every life is hardcore mode, unless y'all respawn.