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UBCO study disproves the simulation hypothesis

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21 points mxkopy | 1 comments | 02 Nov 25 19:24 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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badenglish ◴[02 Nov 25 19:43 UTC] No.45792824[source]▶
with the same success the study refutes the researchers' religious belief in the truth
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junon ◴[03 Nov 25 00:00 UTC] No.45794530[source]▶
I would imagine the hand-wavey response might not be far away from "God is not algorithmic".
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MangoToupe ◴[03 Nov 25 04:36 UTC] No.45795927[source]▶
The concept of "god" and "simulated universe" seem to be essentially the same
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junon ◴[03 Nov 25 09:06 UTC] No.45797180[source]▶
I'm an atheist, but I can tell you that no, they are not - at least not to many believers.
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MangoToupe ◴[03 Nov 25 11:54 UTC] No.45798112[source]▶
From the perspective of empirical analysis—how?
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junon ◴[03 Nov 25 16:50 UTC] No.45801176[source]▶
I'd say the question is flawed (at least, in this context); religion is purposefully the opposite of empiricism for most everyone I know, anecdotally. Hence why it's given the term "faith".
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MangoToupe ◴[03 Nov 25 20:20 UTC] No.45803908[source]▶
Exactly. How do you formulate "simulation" without such faith? The idea of demonstrating evidence of either god or simulation is equally nonsensical. The people grasping for such might as well grasp for the spaghetti monster.
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Dylan16807 ◴[03 Nov 25 21:28 UTC] No.45804672[source]▶
> The idea of demonstrating evidence of either god or simulation is equally nonsensical.

Finding evidence is nonsensical if you assume they set everything up perfectly and have never intervened.

That is a stupendously huge "if".

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1. junon ◴[03 Nov 25 23:15 UTC] No.45805643[source]▶
Realistically, the same could be said about the simulation theory. I don't really buy the article as-written, despite also not personally believing we're in a simulation.