We almost certainly live in a simulation. I think I figured out why

if you existed in the era before popular PC use you find such arguments silly.

anyone over 80-ish predates computers? like we have people alive born in 1918.

are you familiar with the power of old computers?

are you familiar with pong? 70s or 80s graphics, even in an arcade?

dial up modems, including when you literally put a phone handset on a modem cradle?

the degree to which old computers used to crash?

You're not getting it, champ.

There is no history before the simulation. Mine, or yours. It's all made up. That's why it's called a simulation.

Are you getting it?

Not buying it, can't believe you are.

Are we “redoing” our lives with the benefit of hindsight, hoping to do better the second time? If so, my first life must have been really bad.

Why do you think it's almost certainly true?

top 3 reasons why you aren't a trustworthy source and i wont be paying any attention to this:

Wrote "hehe"

Think ancestor is somebody from the future

Confused between they're and their

You’re an idiot.

simulationists are ethical nihilists. They want to believe nothing they do really matters. Kill someone? No real problem, just a simulation.

they are also hopeless nerds who don't understand consciousness. It's not something that merely observes and perceives. On the contrary, it is self-aware, and perceptions are part of that self-awareness. Consciousness isn't only in the brain, but the entire body and its intereactions with the world. These things are real, and only a neo-Cartesian obsession with doubt can confuse anyone about it.

First time smoking weed, bro?

Many issues with this - it sounds like just “an idea” that hasn’t been developed in a sophisticated way.

Some questions that might help guide your thinking:

What necessitates a simulation over “reality”? If we existed in a dream would that be a simulation?

Provide a rigorous definition of a simulation. Define consciousness in a meaningful way. If you claim that consciousness can be simulated you must have a deep understanding of what it is.

What necessitates your reasoning/explanation for a simulation over the alternatives?

Without getting into too many details, I decided to start paying attention to my life, as if I was observing it from a distance.

This opened up a pandora's box of discovery that is still unfolding itself. I highly recommend it.

"Think ancestor is somebody from the future"

Did you even read the post?

Fair questions. I'll try my best to address them.

1) Of course it's an hypothesis. It's like trying to prove the existence of God. How can you prove the unknowable and unseeable? Unlike traditional notions of God, this hypothesis is rooted in observations, deep self-reflection and little bit of sound logic.

2) What necessitates simulation over "reality"? Not sure what you meant here

3) (My) Definition of simulation: An environment, system or state of being that is not directly experienced through base reality. In other words, a proxy environment. In our reality, video games are a simulation.

4) What is consciousness? It simply is. It's all there ever was. Don'y you find it a bit odd that scientists barely understand what consciousness is? That's because consciousness studying itself will always be limited by its own perspective, unless pure or "base" consciousness is doing the studying. We're not living as base consciousnesses here. We're limited simulated consciousnesses. Hence, the confusion and unknowing.

5) What necessitates your reasoning/explanation for a simulation over the alternatives? What alternatives would you like me to reason against?

What have you been smoking son?

TLDR: You live in a simulated reality. The simulation was created by us (or our ancestors) to remind themselves what it is like to be human. You are being observed by yourself from the future and you don't even realize it - until now.

They’re in the part of the movie where they realize they’re in a movie. Good times.

Huge sci fi fan here, you do have some talent, ought to givei it a shot.

Do I believe any of that, of course not.

I'm not reading that shi(t). You might live in a simulation, inching your way on the freeway in your metal coffin on the way to that 5 decade 9-5er. Not me, no sir.