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At least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a “posthuman” stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation. It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless we are currently living in a simulation.

The computational power of a future human society will eventually reach the point where we can run lifelike and conscious simulations, and will no doubt do such a thing. These simulations will in turns progress to a stage were they run simulations, creating a nearly infinite loop of simulations based on the natural world. Simple probability dictates that we are almost certainly in a simulation.

I have reached the next level of the simulation. I wish it could be described but it is really tragic, in the sense that you can see and comprehend the boundaries of your reality.

Bollocks

Moved to The Lounge.

Yes, but we're not a simulation done by a society, we're a simulation done by one person. Everyone you know in this world, you, me, friends, strangers, are all reflections of the same person...which some call God. You cannot deny God unless you deny yourself, yet you cannot enforce a certain view of God without also destroying a part of yourself.

The idea that reality is an illusion has a long and venerable history.

This isn't an idea, it's a logical conclusion. Either we 1) go extinct before we reach the technological level necessary to run such simulations (200 years MAX), or 2) we are in all probability one of the infinite simulations run by the natural species.