Putting significant energy into campaigning against it? Sure. But what’s silly about saying “this is a stupid idea and shouldn’t happen”?

Should the fediverse get an emoji? How about Matrix?

set the date filter to something recent, test site:reddit.com df:w (results from last week only) gives 0 hours hits

did you set time limit to last week? old posts are still indexed. just tried “site:reddit.com df:w” on DDG and no hits

easy

Exactly! I’m by no means against these thought experiments, I think they’re super interesting and might lead to new insights down the road. I’m just irked out by people staying these things as fact, using Elon Musk level popscience arguments.

I actually study physics :D

that’s partly why I care about making the distinction between science and non-science. To be scientific, a theory needs to be, first and foremost, falsifiable. That sounds counterintuitive, but you need to propose experiments that could prove you wrong. And then if they fail, you got a good indication you might be on to something.

A (good enough, as you said) simulation is per definition unfalsifiable. It’s also a wild assumption that “the real world” obeys the same laws of physics ours does, and I consider any statistical argument based on that assumption to be pretty unconvincing.

Ultimately, the simulation theory is a nice thought experiment and a great setpiece for sci-fi, but not much more. It’s kinda similar to the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, actually. Cool to think about, not at all relevant for us.

It’s wise to treat any talk about The Simulation™ like talk of God and the afterlife. An interesting concept, but absolutely unverifiable, and therefore unscientific and of no relevance to your day to day life. Unless you want to believe, but then it’s a religion.

I have the same problem in German (ä, ö, ü and ß), and I’ve resigned to using US layout with caps lock mapped as compose key. But then again, I code more than I write texts

WolframAlpha estimates PrimePi[2^64-1] to be about 4.15829E17, so about 97.7%

asymptotically this is 100% correct!