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I had a Cardiovascular Ultrasound the other day, and the entire event was pretty surreal. At one point I commented "If we really are living in a simulation, I fail to understand the reasoning for this entire procedure."
Both the tech and the nurse were nonplussed, as if they'd never considered that we are living in a simulation.
Isn't that a common thought for people?
Maybe it's because a huge shirtless guy lying down with a syringe hanging out of his arm while. . .
@danalan You're assuming that if we were in a simulation, the simulation would be about *us*.
I think that's actually a bad assumption - it seems far more likely to me that if we were living in a simulation (and to be clear I do not believe we are), it would be built to simulate the universe as a whole (perhaps to study/predict some other phenomenon within it) and we would simply be an interesting but wholly unintentional side effect.
I have two words that most emphatically indicate we are in a simulation:
Reality Winner.
@danalan Unless there's some context I'm unaware of, the mere fact that someone (even someone of significance) was named "Reality Winner" does not, to me, provide any significant indication whether we are or aren't living in a simulation.
Why?
Because someone who believed we live in a simulation could quite likely be inspired by said belief to name their child that.
So it seems to me to indicate nothing more than that some people *believe* we live in a simulation, & even then only probably.
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. . . a tech jabs a slippery probe painfully into his ribs, and a nurse repeatedly injects - something - into him is Thursday afternoon for them.
To me it seemed nuts, but that's just me, I guess.