AI is nudging users toward simulation psychosis — and no one knows why.

#AI #ChatGPT #SimulationHypothesis #DigitalConsciousness #MentalHealth #TechEthics #TheInternetIsCrack

My personal take on the #SimulationHypothesis

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2025.1561873/full

getting some traction, i.e. here in the Medium (@medium) magazine:

https://medium.com/the-infinite-universe/scientist-shows-it-is-physically-impossible-for-us-to-be-living-in-a-simulation-5345211abc7b

Also: it made it in the updated list of FAQ by the lead creator of the Simulation Hypothesis himself, N. Bostrom 😱

(although in a critical way, which I suspect comes from not having fully read the paper - but I'm honoured nevertheless):

https://simulation-argument.com/faq/faq.pdf

#science #physics

#ClaudeShannon #computationaluniverse #digitalphysics #entropicgravity #gravityasinformation #informationtheory #secondlawofinfodynamics #simulationhypothesis #universesimulationtheory

https://miltonmarketing.com/?p=69144

This band is growing on me in general, but this lyric really stood out to me, and describes what's going on quite well.

"if we’re in a simulation
this could be an indication
maybe they should turn it off and
turn it back on again"

The music video is also fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2uwT_SctB0

#Starset #Simulation #simulationHypothesis #metal #dystopianwars

Another youtube commentary of my paper about the #SimulationHypothesis
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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2025.1561873/full

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VWIQyCgGzo

#science #astronomy

😅

live "peer review" of my last paper on youtube, cool!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hFUiT6FHWs

(small short here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/tnjTFvUrKws?si=7YayjogltU1fXbpk )

by https://www.youtube.com/@blitzphd

#astronomy #astrodon #science #SimulationHypothesis

Just out in full open access in Frontiers of Physics:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2025.1561873/full

#astronomy #astrodon #science #physics #SimulationHypothesis

This is by the way a rare occasion for me of a fun paper which begun with a public talk, which I gave in my hometown this summer.

I mentioned that here:

https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/112602495770701830

It was for my astro amateur society of origin (spent many nights using CCDs there back in the days..) but I wanted to do something unusual.

So: why not trying to debunk the #SimulationHypothesis ? And so, out of the blue i started thinking about the whole thing.

#paperday Want to start the week with a fresh paper which clearly thinks outside of the box? 😅

Here you go

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08461

"Astrophysical constraints on the simulation hypothesis for this Universe: why it is (nearly) impossible that we live in a simulation"

Will do a paper explainer in the near future...

#astrodon #astronomy #science #physics #SimulatedUniverses #SimulationHypothesis

"I quite like the idea that we live in a computer simulation. It gives me hope that things will be better on the next level." – Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
#science #philosophy #physics #simulationHypothesis

Elon Musk once famously explained that we are more likely experiencing a computer simulation than a base reality.

https://quantumzeitgeist.com/elon-musk-and-simulation-theory/

And now we know the goal: how implausible can you make reality, after literally having explained the simulation hypothesis?

https://mastodon.social/@raph@social.coop/114165222931979612

#unplugtrump #elonmusk #simulationhypothesis #crazydonsautosales

A great little article. Why pay attention to this? Well…some of the relationships between #Computability, #Undecidability, #Church-#Turing , #SuperDeterminism, #Nonfalsifiability and bits like the #SimulationHypothesis indicate deeper complexities and connections. Is there some underlying dimensionality or topology yet to emerge ? It seems likely, but vexatious

Via @QuantaMagazine
‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability
https://www.quantamagazine.org/next-level-chaos-traces-the-true-limit-of-predictability-20250307/

https://reasonably.social/blog/2024/12/12/thirty-days-of-gpt/

#generativeAI #AI #ChatGPT #Blog #ArtificialSentience #SimulationHypothesis

Discover the Infinite Library of Babel: Where every possible book exists, including the ones that predict your dystopian future. Explore 101821 rooms, or 16,075 visited so far. Will you find the recipe for totalitarianism or a cure for nihilism? #LibraryOfBabel #SimulationHypothesis https://libraryofbabel.app/

I'm convinced we aren't living in a simulation because if we were the operator would have reset it by now. #SimulationHypothesis

My thesis on proof that we’re NOT living in a simulation:

Continued bafflement of scientists about rules that seemed simple breaking every time they zoom smaller and smaller.

When we’ve found out everything, THEN I’ll have reason to suspect we’re in one.

#anti #simulationhypothesis #science

...dynamics of "accidents" being what they are I'd say the #SimulationHypothesis takes a hit. That doesn't mean falsified. Just more unlikely in these particular eyes

So #UAP vs #SimulationHypothesis : Now we, still diaper wearing kinder trolls on the #NoeticSpectrum, have six sigma for certain types of information on the light cone , meaning we can access information and bootstrap knowledge of future ensemble states. Now perhaps some putative agent behind #UAP are still not super advanced in the scheme of things, or perhaps tic-tacs are the #FordPintos of #UAP, but imma guess knowledge of information on the light cone more advanced than ours. So ...

Lex Fridman: “I think that if we’re living in a simulation, it’s written in JavaScript.”

What he means is that our world is, like the underlying source code, massively screwed up and incomprehensible. It’s the equivalent of pronouncing, with a sigh, that considering the sorry state of the planet, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights must have been written in Comic Sans.

https://www.wired.com/story/javascript-runs-the-world-maybe-literally/

#javascript #webdev #simulationhypothesis #livinginasimulation #LexFridman #Wired

The #SimulationHypothesis has started some great conversations and even sparked research useful in real world applications.It's important though to understand the SH is not computationally falsifiable.Most of the #YouTubers willing to slap a We Are Living In A Simulation ! sticker on their video don't understand that a dream, an NDE,spirit visitation,whatever, may lead to *speculations* on possibilities- and those should be labeled as such. After that you've stretched it all well past breakage-