If we are in that simulation, what's your message to the simulator? You can offer constructive criticism (think of the blog as a suggestion box), meditations, strategic flattery, pleas or rationales for letting humanity (or at least you) survive and prosper in this world and beyond. Post whatever you want, and I'll pick a winner next week.
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Can you please tell me where the reset button is?..I RTFM and still can't find it and there is no number for customer service listed.
Thank you
SyS
Please delete me. I'm sick n tired of the worlf you have created and just wants out of it.
I'm the entity that simulates YOU, o great and powerful runner of the universe humans think they inhabit.
It's kind of a recursive Mandelbrotian idea---simulations within simulations. Now, I know that may upset you, but how can you prove I don't run your simulation of a simulation of a...
we are not alive at all!!! so there is no one to say hey what is the point of life. We are living in a omega point.
Surely it wouldn't be too much to program me a beautiful, busty, highly intelligent and multidimensional submissive woman to be my lifelong companion?
I'd really appreciate it, you know.
Yeah, that's the ticket! As long as you may be at it, make a few for me, too!
I'm torn between finding something profound to say to my maker, or maybe just a simple question. Either a paraphrase like:
"Oh I Have Slipped The Surly Bonds of Earth...
Put Out My Hand And Touched the face of God"
Or...
"Is Elvis with you?"
Imagine if you were playing The Sims, and, all of a sudden, they start looking up at you, holding signs that say "We Know You Are There".
I believe that, once the Simulator is openly acknowledged as Being There, It will unplug the simulation.
I also think of the possibility that a rudimentary simulation was programmed to evolve on it's own over millenia and that the Simulator has moved on to more complex simulations.
Think of the open environment game Fable 2, where you are motivated to feel emotions for a pet dog and can marry and raise a family and grow old and buy whole towns, and don't have to be truly Good or truly Evil.
Once that game is completed, the programmers move on to the next simulation, only providing add-ons here and there to keep the simulants interested in continued existence.
Can you explain to everyone that death's only relative functionality. Human "death" carries little difference from a broken vehicle. We just haven't figured out how to jump start everything properly yet. Post-mortality society'll be something else.
'if there's no way out of the sim, please write us an afterlife! we would be so much more fun with more time on our hands'
- notdifferentjustdangerous.
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