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  1. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    Well since you have lucid dreaming you already have the abilities I'm talking about. But I rarely dream at all and can't even picture anything in my mind because I have aphantasia. If I dream it is usually level 4 (a ghostly outline). On the other hand I can imagine music and singing fairly...
  2. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    BTW in a simulation/video game you can have god like abilities (can see many places at once, teleport, be invincible, invisible, make things appear out of nothing, change anything into anything, change time including reversing it)
  3. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    It's just another form of video game and billions of people play those. I think it is loosely based on a plausible past - not completely accurate. And your actions and randomness could change the course of history. As far as "why" goes, why did Rick and Morty play the Roy game? Maybe for...
  4. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    "universes that resemble our own" means basically our universe. In the future it is likely that there will be billions of video games that are indistinguishable from reality. Some of them would simulate the past (which would lead to our world).
  5. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    I'm talking about simulations within universes that resemble our own. Those simulations require energy to run. Energy comes directly or indirectly from stars but they only last several billions of years. An eternal simulation would need to be powered for an eternity which is infinitely longer...
  6. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    Well simulations are always temporary... That's good - though you could just consider it to be a movie or video game - that involves things different to your ordinary life...
  7. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    Well in the simulations I am talking about you could experience exactly what you want... Well the Roy game (or similar) would allow you to do that...
  8. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    I was wondering if everyone can have your attitude. Or is it just dependent on your current circumstances? So if you were in a concentration camp you wouldn't be so happy? BTW do you believe in the afterlife and if you do would it be perfectly fine for it to not exist? BTW this is the theology...
  9. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    What if you were currently in a concentration camp? (I think there are still ones on North Korea). Also would you mind if there was no afterlife?
  10. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    It seems you believe you're going to Heaven (as a Roman Catholic). My ideas are a form of Heaven. Would you rather just have real life and real death? Or do you also want to have an amazing afterlife? Would you still be content with your life if there was no afterlife?
  11. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    It's great you're so content with your life though personally I'm not... though Mark Manson says: https://markmanson.net/life-cheat-codes I like this quote from Alan Watts: Or there could be no afterlife - which is also good. I'd get really upset if traditional Christianity is correct and hell...
  12. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    @Soandso These things are about the afterlife - I think I'm in a simulation but currently I can't have wishes granted, etc. This is about what might happen after a person wakes up from the Roy game... So I'm just saying that I think this is superior to the idea of Heaven (and if you like...
  13. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    So you're just a viewer rather being able to take charge? BTW what I'm talking about is being able to do basically anything you could imagine... including being in a famous movie or cartoon... (though like I said the wish granter might only allow respectful wishes)
  14. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    What if you became blind? Would you still not be interested in the genie?
  15. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    I do use my imagination a lot in my ordinary life. So your critique of my ideas is that I should be focusing my imagination on my ordinary life? I assumed that people in this forum would be interested in theology.
  16. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    So if a genie came along you'd just say you're happy with your life?
  17. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    So I was trying out the free version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet: https://claude.ai This is the prompt I made to create an interactive story with a genie: Then my replies But the LLM said: In my opening post in this thread maybe the reason why Alan Watts' thought experiment only involved nice...
  18. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    In order to fulfil certain wishes there would need to be a lot of NPCs (Non-Player Characters). It would be much cheaper if the NPCs approximated conscious behaviour rather than truly being conscious. That also eliminates the problem of there being a lot more beings that are genuinely suffering...
  19. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    An early form of limitless simulations are these interactive stories where I used OpenAI's Playground two years ago in GPT3.5 - the bold is what I typed:
  20. excreationist

    Anything you could desire and simulations

    I think just about anything you could desire could be simulated or approximated in simulations in the future (or far future) assuming you had control over the simulation... e.g. Say you wanted to go to Heaven for an eternity - this would require boredom to be eliminated and eternity could be...
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