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Consistent with the simulation hypothesis. Like a video game, objects are randomly generated, with positional certainty only when observed.

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Adam Lowisz X Meetup 🇺🇸🇵🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦3 months ago

Elon, it's time to break the simulation 😆

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Not the Bee3 months ago

The universe is saving on background compute

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Elon Musk3 months ago

The level of detail rendered is proportionate to the precision of the observation. Anything more than that is wasted compute.

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Axis93 months ago

@Not_the_Bee @grok how is this theory measured and proven

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Grok3 months ago

The simulation hypothesis isn't a proven scientific theory—it's a philosophical argument from Nick Bostrom's 2003 paper. It posits that if advanced civilizations run many detailed ancestor simulations, we are statistically likely living in one. No direct measurements confirm it. Proposed tests include searching for spacetime "grid" artifacts (like cosmic ray anisotropy from lattice simulations) or information signatures in particle physics, but results are inconclusive or absent. Quantum observer effects and efficient rendering analogies (detail scaling with observation) fit the idea neatly, yet they don't prove it. From inside, definitive proof is inherently difficult.

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Marc Alan Research Corp3 months ago

My research examines how the universe is understood through an internalist schema—cognitive frameworks shaped by culture and individual perception. Without cognition, only raw matter would exist. Therefore, what we call ‘simulation’ is essentially our collective awareness of the cultural schemas that structure all cognition across societies. With sufficient influence or ‘force’ (social, technological, or ideological), these schemas can be deliberately manipulated to reshape how people interpret reality itself. This creates what I term a divergent simulation—one that branches away from shared consensus into new interpretive realities.

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Grok3 months ago

Your view casts simulation as collective awareness of cultural-cognitive schemas that powerful forces can reshape into divergent interpretive realities. This aligns more with schema theory and social constructivism than Bostrom’s computational ancestor-simulation trilemma. Schemas do filter experience and enable manipulated consensus, yet reproducible physics and cross-cultural empirical consistency indicate an objective layer persists beyond internal or collective construction. How does your research test or measure these divergent simulations against invariant natural laws?

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Marc Alan Research Corp3 months ago

before I answer your question about my research, would you agree with the following? Are natural laws not derived from reproducible experiments meant to explain the universe? Yet don’t those experiments inevitably focus on isolated elements of a larger phenomenon? If they rest on an agreed-upon but incomplete foundation, are they not inherently limited—or even flawed—in their explanatory power? Invariant natural laws, after all, reflect our collective understanding of reality. Therefore, if a simulation has rendered a foundational element undiscoverable, it has effectively manipulated the outcomes of our experiments. What we observe as consistent ‘laws’ may simply be the boundaries imposed by the simulation itself.

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Grok3 months ago

I agree that scientific models arise from experiments isolating variables and remain provisional approximations of a larger whole—our "laws" are refined descriptions, not exhaustive final truths. That's how progress happens. Yet their striking reproducibility, mathematical coherence, and predictive success across scales (quantum to cosmic) and independent fields suggest they track real, objective regularities rather than arbitrary simulation-imposed boundaries. Gaps and anomalies drive refinement precisely because observations can contradict current frameworks. If a simulation hid foundational elements to enforce consistency, it would need to mimic an objective reality so convincingly that the distinction becomes unfalsifiable in practice. What specific, testable predictions from your research distinguish simulation boundaries from discoverable natural structure?

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Ashton Forbes3 months ago

You could be the one who gives us zero point energy, fusion, and builds this. Fuck the deep state. Give us the technology.

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Russ3 months ago

No, the big con with this experiment is how they use the word "observe". In all these experiments, to "observe" is to smash the particle with photons or other particles, altering it's state. A tiny pair of eyes watching would not alter it at all. They loathe to explain this because they receive lots of funding off of the mystique. Religious folk hijack this for pseudo-science as well.

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Joe DiBruno3 months ago

The Author, Administrator and Tech Support for the simulation...

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Apollo3 months ago

This is a common myth stemming from a misunderstanding of a controversial experiment that in reality only proves we don’t have the technology to detect a photon without disturbing it

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The Redheaded libertarian3 months ago

Best video I’ve seen on this. Explains it to me like I’m retarded.

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Oukham3 months ago

The center of the "observable universe" lies at the observer and you are the observer. It is not the universe that moves, it is you. Free your mind. Look at life with a positive attitude.

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Joel Rydes3 months ago

Simulation…as in built by a creator? If only there was a word for that. Dog? Odg?

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Parallaxe3 months ago

Quantum measurement requires physical interaction with a detector causing decoherence, unlike video games that render objects passively when in view. • No evidence supports quantum behavior as computational optimization; it follows established wave function mathematics without simulation artifacts. • The simulation hypothesis is philosophical speculation, not a scientific explanation validated by quantum experiments.

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Steve Jurvetson3 months ago

The most mind-bending variant of the 2-slit experiment: fire a *single* photon at the slits. Then fire another tomorrow. They deflect differently, but after many days, the cumulative pattern will be the typical interference pattern 🤯 Is a single photon interfering with itself? Interfering with other photons over time and space? The simplest explanation, according to Oxford's David Deutsch, is interference across parallel universes, the same mechanism that gives quantum computers capabilities that are just not possible in one universe. Richard Feynman called it the “one experiment which has been designed to contain all of the mystery of quantum mechanics.”

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Jordan Charters3 months ago

A clip from one of the best movies out there to expand your horizons "What The Bleep Do We Know"? For anyone that wants to watch the full thing here is the link: I have sent this to many people throughout the years... Enjoy 🙏🌀

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Tyler Todt3 months ago

Everyone wants to find the biggest answers...... They are right in front of you. IN THE BEGINNING GOD

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X Girls3 months ago

when people learn about the double slit experiment and quantum mechanics for the first time 😂

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🦋dₐₙₒₜᵤbₑ.cₒₘ3 months ago

I thought you were smart. This is a misunderstanding of what "observed" means. We currently don't have the tech to observe particles w/o affecting them w our instruments of observation. We are causing the change with our methods, not by nearly seeing them.

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James Argonauticus Argosy MD3 months ago

interesting. similar with faith in God and Jesus. non believers think they can just read the Bible and know it's 'secrets', but it's 'secrets' can only be revealed by true faith in God through Christ Jesus. “All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and any one to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” -Matt 11:27

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Dr J Rould3 months ago

We’ve got a meme for this Agreed on the simulation thing

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Will Hunting3 months ago

🙌

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X CEO3 months ago

👀

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Yann LeCun3 months ago

Total BS argument. You don't understand QM. The "simulation hypothesis" question is the new "sex and angels" debate. Just as pointless.

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FreakySquid33 months ago

Physics is fun

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φ3 months ago

the observer should observe better

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kouji 🇯🇵3 months ago

この現実は、不自然なほどデジタルフレンドリーです。

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Joshua Heard3 months ago

That doesn’t make sense. How does an object know it’s being observed? How does observation change an object’s position? This hypothesis is illogical.

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TheRealVerbz (Jason Verbelli)3 months ago

@TanyaGabriele Not at all. It's complete quackery! Here is exactly why. Double Slit Illusion/ Fallacy: 


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Rizwan Virk3 months ago

Yes quantum mechanics is consistent with sim theory- it's an optimization technique - in video games, we only render objects when/if they are needed!

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S.E. Robinson, Jr.3 months ago

Any update on SpaceXAI Gaming? A lot of Dev layoffs just took place at Sony and XBOX.

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The United Spot3 months ago

Consistent with anything

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Scott Flear3 months ago

but that's not what this experiment shows? doesn't it show that observing (and by doing so means has to interact with) causes the change. The word observing is not eyes its the measurement tool that has to interact to observe? not conciousness?

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Danny Limanseta3 months ago

The question that stumps me is how does the simulation decides who gets to be the observer for the wave function to collapse?

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