We are in a simulation!!

I know which is why nothing of this is fucking worth it

Maybe.

I should have taken the blue pill.

Yup

karma, déjà vu, quantum mechanics multiverses and back to the future movies proves that.

Then simulations are also real world and there's no difference.

If so I'd appreciate an upgrade

Simulations are based on real events, or at least a demonstration of how future events could play out.

I just started writing a theory about this and then promptly deleted it, because I shouldn't be thinking this hard on a weekend :P

... inside a simulation ... inside another giannt simulation...
"Fuck it man life goes on"

It's funny how much it bugs humans to not know the answer to some questions.

On one side you have people who fill that void with dogmatic religious rituals, on the other you have people who claim that no proof of anything beyond the tangible is proof that nothing else exists.

I think it is healthy to believe in questions without answers. Don't get stuck on it. Just accept that many things are wrapped in a Maybe Monad.

It costs a bit of extra energy to not reduce things to definitive answers. But you know what costs more energy? To track back on things you thought to be true, to redefine everything you believed in.

So the better choice is to not collapse that wavefunction, to not decide on truth unless the probabilities tell you to.

Agnosticism is superior to religion and atheism (maybe?).

Be content with maybe. 🤷‍♀

Someone please reset it to about 3 years ago when I was so full of hope for the future

@Nanos Bugs and exploits would get patched and rolled back. But the closest thing to an exploit would probably be quantum calculations, since that's offloading difficult problem solving to the universe.

@irene I would claim that agnosticism and nihilism are identical, the latter is just the former framed in a human perspective.

If agnosticism is "It is unknown...", then nihilism is the acceptance of that concept.

The Agnostic would tell you that everything important is unknown, and shrug their shoulders if you panic. The nihilist then gently pats you on the head and says: "That's right, but who cares, we're alive and healthy, let's go eat some icecream and watch the sunset".

There is an important distinction though: The Agnostic would say there is no certainty, you might be forever tortured by a race of purple elephants when you exit the simulation.

The Nihilist however would reject that in favor of: There's this universe and nothing else, you create your own purpose, there's no ethics except human-made rules — now let's go eat icecream and watch the sunset.

Agnosticism is more realistic in the sense that it states that since any "Divine" stuff is neither proven nor unproven, it could exist. Or not. Or it does. Or... Not.

Nihilism is more realistic in the sense that you get to raise your middle finger against all this philosophical bullshit about hypothetical purple elephants, and just comfortably eat some icecream. And watch the sunset.

I can't blame you for choosing icecream.

You're right, fuck this agnosticism bullshit, let's eat icecream.

@irene A nihilist would claim the same, but the approach differs.

A nihilist would pragmatically tell you to define your own purpose in the context of what is known and possible, and search to maximize your self-defined purpose, disregarding any and all presence or lack of higher meaning.

That is perfectly compatible with both an Atheist and Agnostic stance on reality — although in general the Nihilist would reject both in favor of icecream.

A true Nihilist would react to a sudden appearance of God with: "Do you plan to stand in the way of my dreams? No? Then do you know of any good icecream stores around here?"

@irene True. Wanna get some icecream?

@Nanos A rollback would also revert your memory.