I highly suggest to listen to this podcast with Damien P. Williams and Paris Marx:
“No, we don't live in a f---ing simulation”
https://ouropinionsarecorrect.libsyn.com/no-were-not-living-in-a-f-ing-simulation
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2025
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we are a speck of excrement on the buttplug of reality during a gay porno film.
I will prove that we're not in a simulation:
If we're in a simulation then whoever is operating it would not want us to know if we're in a simulation or not.
Anyone trying to check if we're in a simulation or not would be stopped by the operator.
I wasn't stopped by an operator hence there is no operator and we're not in a simulation.
Q.E.D.
Um, why? As a general rule, the point of running a simulation is to find out what happens under some circumstances where you don't know what happens. If you're imposing conditions like that, then you aren't so much running a simulation as you are running some kind of procedural generation.
I'm kidding but since we're just playing I would say:
Let's imagine you want to know who will win the next election. You create detailed simulation of the entire population and run it until the voting day to see how they will vote. If the simulated population realized they are in a simulation the will obviously start behaving in a different way then the real population thus making your simulation useless.
So I would say unless the goal of the simulation is to see how fast will it realize it's just a simulation you would try to avoid them finding out.
Then again, checking if people will realize they are in a simulation is a valid reason to simulate them so it's possible we're in a simulation that is supposed to find out it's a simulation...
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I was under the impression that something along these lines was already accepted from the perspective of information theory. I.e. a machine that could simulate the universe must at least be composed of as much information as the universe itself. Given the vastness and complexity of the universe, this would make it rather unlikely that the universe is simulated. Unless you want to view the universe itself as a machine that calculates it's own progression. But that is a bit of a semantic point.
Disclaimer: this is not my area of expertise and I probably got some terms or concepts wrong. I am basing this off of 'The information' by James Gleick
But you wouldn't have to simulate the whole universe, only one brain. There is no way for you to know, if everything your brain experiences is caused by it actually happening, or just the neutrons being triggered in that way from outside.
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I mean, maybe the machine is five-dimensional and has no problem containing all the information of a three-dimensional universe? I don't know, yadda yadda talking out of my ass.
This doesn't really address the idea that our simulation is a simplified version of the "real" universe though does it?
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This is akin to cavemen concluding there's no way an mri scanner could be possible.
Very interesting, although I'm going to withhold judgment pending some serious peer review.
Edit: One person doesn't like peer review to be part of the scientific process.
Lol. They forgot that thermodynamics existed? If they remembered they were already done before they started.
Honestly I haven't seen a single article written by someone who actually understands the mathematics involved so I call a huge amount of HORSeSHIT on your headline.
That’s what the matrix wants you to think /s