Lemme consider its deeper underpinnings:

- This reality is not the Final Reality. There's something off, something at least once-removed about this reality

- This reality begs for some sense-making. It doesn't sit well as chaos, and something written into our code compels us to order and rationalize, suggesting that reality itself is an ordered, purposeful narrative or code. What we call reality is, in fact, written / created

- Some being or beings engage in something akin to authorship, or coding, which creates our world and our selves. Their designs for us are mysterious and shrouded, but possibly discoverable

- Our desire for predictability and deeper understanding is best served by aligning ourselves with the invisible codes and laws which underwrite our experiences

All of this seems pretty much religion 101, or even Platonism 101. The metaphor of the Divine Word is expressed in binary rather than hebrew or arabic or whatever, but same shit.

A simulation dude might advocate for the novelty of his theory thus: "As we progress in tech, we obtain better metaphors for the Creator(s)/Creation act." Okay, instead of a quill and scroll its a screen, big whoop.

Am I missing some important thing?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5889096&forum_id=2#50042846)

given how shitty this existence in (fucking pajeets literally exist) im pretty sure it's just some fag

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5889096&forum_id=2#50042862)

Silicon Valley fags simply have their heads too far up their asses to appreciate this. "We made a computer, therefore god must also be a programmer." Oh wow how convenient they are just like god, guess we should listen to whatever they have to say! Fucking lol.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5889096&forum_id=2#50042935)

It appeals to the same audience that wishes charity were more like poker and “proving” theological and ethical arguments by multiplying things by infinity. (Gay, autistic, and retarded).

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5889096&forum_id=2#50042974)

those four built corvettes. the 21st C sim guys are building boy scout roller derby boxes and are super proud of them. theyd do better to study the work of men far smarter who approached the very same questions

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5889096&forum_id=2#50043070)

I can go study biology and astronomy and so on to refine my estimate of probabilities here. But hypothesizing that maybe my available data was constructed by simulators who are sort of like me but also radically different in unknowable ways and outside my ability to observe does not help me to accurately understand anything and it is nothing but a stoner fantasy. Like what if we’re all ants man and the world is an ice cream cone?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5889096&forum_id=2#50044387)

it's a totally reasonable theory for the origin of our universe. people who have a gripe with it really just have a gripe with metaphysics. which i agree, metaphysics is mostly just silly and ridiculous. but we should have self awareness about our feelings about it

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5889096&forum_id=2#50043148)