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Comment author: niceguyanon 26 October 2012 07:46:24PM *  0 points [-]

[Added] The simulations are stacked.

Just a few question for this proposal:

  • Wouldn't the infinitely stacking simulations lag and further increase the costs to support the simulation in the level below it.?

  • Is it more likely that, if we are in a simulation, we are "close" to "basement level" rather than far out in an infinitely stacking simulation because the basement level will find it too costly to run an infinitely stacking simulation?

The simulators are much like us, or at least are our post-human descendants.

I estimate this particular proposal to be very low. We might just be the by-product of, or one of many civilizations of, a simulation. Humanity and its time of existence might just be a blip on the way to the real reason of the simulation – a civilization that will exist billions of years from now. In other words, perhaps we are merely the extras in a movie in which the audience have come to watch the stars.