Gardinengleiter (u/Gardinengleiter)

Gardinengleiter commented on My contribution to the idea that we lived in a simulation · Posted by u/Gardinengleiter

_wire_ · 9 days ago

"Simulation" arguments never touch on what is meant by simulation.

Without a firm notion of what it means to simulate, the rest is nonsense.

A TV simulates what was recorded by a camera, but have you ever heard anyone at any stage of mental development wonder "how do all those little people live in that box?"

Even small children are never confused about it, any more so than they would suspect a parent contains a homunculus inside or is operated as a Chinese room.

So what is it about Bostrom's "simulation" that gets brainiacs wrapped around the mental axle about simulations?

Alan Kay would present the first few minutes of a Harvard commencement from the following Annenberg documentary "A Private Universe" and joke that Harvard may or may not educate but it's a leader in producing arrogance.

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A Private Universe

https://vimeo.com/113349804

Gardinengleiter · 8 days ago

Definition of a simulation: A simulation is a synthetic, computed reality that is generated and controlled by a higher-level system or intelligence. It is not fundamentally real; its apparent physical constructs (like atoms, galaxies, and laws of physics) are facades or imaginative representations created by the simulation's rules. The entities within the simulation may or may not be aware that they are simulated.

Gardinengleiter commented on My contribution to the idea that we lived in a simulation · Posted by u/Gardinengleiter

jonahbenton · 9 days ago

It doesn't matter what the idea or narrative or hypothesis is. How do you test the hypothesis.

Gardinengleiter · 9 days ago

Make your post relate to my post. Your statement currently does not.

Gardinengleiter commented on AI Just Disappoints fortschrittsanzeige.de/ai... · Posted by u/Gardinengleiter

Gardinengleiter · 8 months ago

You generate images with Stable Diffusion, and they just don’t make you happy. You think „the next one will“ and it won’t.

You generate voices and they are still without life and cold, you cannot have an AI create your voice ad, people will pick up on that.

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