(2018-03-14, 08:56 PM)malf Wrote: I'm not sure one can call out the simulation hypothesis as "comedy gold" and then imply that his disembodied essence is floating around in another realm with a new found sense of humility.
Allow me to elaborate a little, because I guess I didn't. It's not necessarily the idea of reality being a simulation that I'm finding funny. Far from it. However, the idea that this simulation is being run by aliens like some science project that will be getting the plug here any minute now is funny to me. Hawking's conception of simulation is what is funny to me.
Elon Musk is even worse. Hes so sure of it that he put the odds of us NOT being in an alien run simulation being as outrageous as 1 in a billion or something along those lines!
I believe we are in a simulation in a vague sense. I'm just not sure it's Hawking and co's idea of it. In fact every thing I've learned here and elsewhere tells me it's definitely not as meaningless and random as they make it out to be. There's definitely something more to it all then just it being the after thought of something eternal in my opinion