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I think generative AI will change peoples perception of simulation theory.

We use to think of simulation theory like a video game. A world constructed for us. Preexisting in some supercomputers memory. Meticulously created. Rules, boundaries and content predefined.

But now we are getting used to the idea of generative worlds. Soon our most realistic digital interactive experiences will not be with pre-crafted worlds but will instead spontaneously generated just in time as we explore them.

As people to continue to ponder simulation theory they will charge the lens they view it through from being some big open world simulation we are exploring and replace it with the view that it may be spontaneously being generated by our consciousness.

Makes you think about fate. The malleability of our reality. The possibility of consciousness creating or “prompting” the world around us.
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HoloKat 5mo ago

But it’s not generated on demand. Just because you can’t see all of it at once doesn’t mean it’s not there. Same as a tree falling in a forest - it fell, whether you were there to observe it or not.

It’s more likely that you are an NPC inside a great simulation with other NPCs and you all interact.

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Kayne 5mo ago

There is generative ai that remembers what it generated.

And the tree wasn't alone, all the other trees and all the animals and the tree itself were all there to witness it's falling over.

Trees can take a long time to die after they fell over.