• HyonoKo@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Maybe it’s some higher dimensional grad student simulating something to get some plots to add to a poster his postdoc wants him to present at a small time conference somewhere. Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.

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      That’s so many nested assumptions, lol:

      Assumption table

      1. Graduate student in academia
      2. Running a simulation for data
      3. For a conference
      4. Haskell

      The probability value of all four being true simultaneously approaches ≈0%

      Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

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        Come on, it doesn’t work like this. You can disprove the funny theory only if you give us an even more ridiculous one in it’s stead.

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        Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

        Most of it is empty. The trick is lazy evaluation.

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          Our telescopes eats up CPU cycles fast, the poor blokes cloud server will come with an unsuspecting bill this month…

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          Yeah, it uses a simplified model unless you look too close. That’s how you get those funny quantum effects. Although, I have to say, great sativa, dude

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        Don’t forget the sheer, mind-destroying size of the universe, and its age.

        I mean, if it’s really a simulation, all of that would be… simulated.

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          I know; I’m just fishing out counter-examples and counter-arguments.

    • bobo@lemmy.ml
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      Our consciousness is just a side effect because he insisted in doing the coding in Haskell.

      Lisp is the true God’s programming language…