(S6) - PT5 - Sherlock

[dropbear]

Have you ever heard of the theory that we're all living in a computer simulation? Basically, the idea is that with how people are, eventually someone is going to decide that ethics don't matter or something like that. We've seen it with all kinds of things. Cloning, stem cells, psychology. Shoot, if you're a fan of Black Mirror then you know that entire last episode of Season 3 is a bunch of breaches of ethics.

So the idea is that, at some point in the future, someone is going to want to put sentient life on a computer. Real peoples minds, but in a simulation. We could simulate so many things, so quickly that would allow us to look into the past and future, and it'd be so fast and cheap that companies would love to use that software without even thinking of the ethical implications of creating sentient life on a computer.

Now. Here's the real kicker. How likely do you think it is, assuming that simulations will be created in the future that we're the first ones who discovered this. It's pretty unlikely that we're the first in the grand scheme of things. So that means we're the simulation, not the simulators. Another way to think of it is like the Rick and Morty episode with the car battery that is actually a Tinyverse or Miniverse. We always think of ourselves as the original creators of the universe as a car battery (or in our case, the simulation), but the theory is that instead of being Rick in this situation, we're the dumb green aliens that make energy for Rick's car.

A lot of the decisions people make in this world would make sense if intelligence was as lowly regarded as an attribute in our 'Earth Sim' as it is in the football one.