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[–] quinkin@lemmy.world 3 points 26 minutes ago

Fuzzing inputs until I find a buffer overflow.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

Wouldn't make a difference. The only part that could change my actions would be what hapoens obce it ends. But simulation or no I'm stuck here for however many years and have to make the best of it.

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

um. look to reprogram this shit.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

L33t haxxors

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

Make coffee.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 10 points 12 hours ago

Jack off and do fuck all???

Doesn't change much, at least I know I only live once and afterlife is fake

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 11 points 13 hours ago

Simulation meaning the universe and everything in it is simulated, including myself? Or like I'm jacked into a simulation Matrix-style?

The former means there's nothing to do about it. The latter means what I do here is largely irrelevant.

Big difference in response.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Commit 34 felonies and run for president

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

You're saying Trump is the 'YOLOoooo' president?

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 47 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

It wouldn't change anything because this is the reality we have. I wouldn't suddenly become immoral because there are still consequences and even if some people or even everyone but me is not real, they will still react as though they have emotions. If I hurt my wife, she would still cry. If I did something bad enough, she might divorce me. Take half my stuff. Lose some access to my kids. Those are all real consequences even if the people are simulated.

Maybe I'd be less concerned for people not immediately around me because any good simulation wouldn't actually sim everything out of range, so there wouldn't e.g. be Palestinians starving to death if no one "real" was there.

I suppose it would re-open the question of existence beyond death, but I don't think I would ultimately come to a different conclusion—there is no reason to think this experience would continue past my own death, and if I were memory-wiped and re-inserted it wouldn't really be the same me anyway, right?

If it were matrix-style there is a reality out there to experience if I can leave the simulation, I'd have some hard thinking to do about whether that would be likely to be a better existence than the one I'm having here.

[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 8 points 19 hours ago

Great point! I never find this line of questioning interesting for this reason. It doesn’t change anything

[–] frezik@midwest.social 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Remember that I'm a nihilist and shrug my shoulders.

Then start to think about how everyone else is going to react and how I'll need to plan for that.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 57 minutes ago

Then start to think about how everyone else is going to react and how I’ll need to plan for that.

yeah that's an interesting consideration.

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago

Nothing changes does it?

Also I'm not sure if I'd me more or less scared of death. If this is a simulation, to escape reality, I can't imagine how terrible reality would really be.

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Have you heard of Roko's Basilisk? Basically, if we were in a simulation, it's best not to acknowledge it

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 2 points 13 hours ago
[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 12 points 16 hours ago

I'd give the sky the finger and then spend too much time wondering what perspective we're even being viewed from.

I'd also probably start a diary, except every entry would be: "Fuck you people for creating a world like this. Do you enjoy the suffering of countless people? Turns out God really is a prick."

[–] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 26 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

But in the end it doesn't even matter

[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Noclipping into the Backrooms.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

why would you do that?

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

Well, thats the objectively wrong answer

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago

The Thirteenth Floor is a truly under appreciated gem of a movie, FYI

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 20 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Try to access the help or stats menu.

[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

↑↑↓↓←→←→BA START

[–] Albbi@reddthat.com 8 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Sorry, does nothing mid game. You have to enter the code from the start screen to get your 30 lives.

[–] Albbi@reddthat.com 1 points 14 hours ago

I subscribe to the Barenaked Ladies philosophy on life.

[–] DScratch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

And even then, imagine having to live in this universe 30 more times.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Time to figure out how to do some prompt injection

[–] tal@lemmy.today 6 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I think that two items would be pretty prominent for humanity:

  • First, if we know not just that it is a simulation but that this brings some knowledge of how the simulation's physics work that differs from our previous non-simulation understanding, how to make use of those properties.

  • Second, figuring out how to "break out", how to influence the world in which the simulation is being run.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

It would be an interesting fact, and I'd want to study the hell out of it, but it doesn't really change anything if nothing can be done about it.

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago
[–] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I would have Morpheus upload Kung Fu into my brain.

"Dammit, I hit the wrong file, you now know fung ku"

[–] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

Is there an option to leave the simulation? And could I come back if I didn't like reality?

If I couldn't come back, I would probably just stay here.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 17 hours ago

I think a lot of unhappy people would exit the simulation.. :)

[–] essell@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

Head butting bricks just became a lot more rewarding

[–] Today@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm always having trouble finding the click

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Start randomly jumping in the air and see if I can grab any unseen treats.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 4 points 18 hours ago

If I can't determine what lies beyond the veil, then nothing much changes, does it?

If I'm presented with a beautiful utopia, or just another world that's not a hellscape that lies beyond our simulation, and then am thrust back into the simulation, then I guess I'd be less afraid of death. If I'm presented with a hellscape, then I guess I'm more scared of death.

However, if I could somehow be convinced that this is all just a simulation, but can't see what lies beyond in what is actual reality...then that's just like...knowing there's an afterlife, but not knowing if it's better or worse than this plane of existence, so it's practically worthless information.

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

player.additem f 999999999

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Is immediately crushed under the weight of their inventory.

[–] jewbacca117@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Dammit. I forgot we were in survival mode

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Turn to the camera and say, "After these messages, we'll be right back."

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago