In my opinion he is a master level hoaxer or he's been loaded into Earth Beta Testing instead of Earth Live.
How would you respond to a situation like that. Finding out life was never real to begin with?
Weed, brings people together. That's why you're here reading this, even if you aren't high or have ever even been high it still brought you here just because of it's name. :) now that, in itself. Is what I call true beauty
Another wonderful thing about it is that it made me remember specific moments in my past where as I was able to do things that even I thought I couldn't do, exceeding my own limits kind of like the athlete runner in the Animatrix minus all of the smoke. Or even moments where I knew I should've died in how ever I didn't.
Has anyone else experienced moments like these and made you question reality?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6lgSbPj8Q
The Metz Speech I'm sure you have all seen is what I'm referring to. Just confused as to what he believed reality was? Simulation or made by God or something else?
Let's imagine a future where a company can create a perfect simulated reality powered by a strong AI; a person comes and asks to be the leader of a totalitarian regime perpetrating a genocide, or a child abuser, or something of the like.
Would it be ethical to let them do this things inside the computer, given that for them it's indistinguishable from real life? Most can argue that as it means no harm for others, and the rest of humanity won't even know what's going on within that personal, private simulation, it should be allowed due to individual liberty. But two main questions come to my mind:
a) The people inside the simulation are in some way real because they are being simulated? Have an existence of their own? Can they just be abused without hesitation?
b) If we accept that the 'NPCs' inside the simulation are just reflections of the connected person's mind, could we infer that they are harming themselves in some way by commiting such crimes, although just virtually? Should such self-harm be allowed?
Looking forward to know your thoughts.
Read by a teen at some point in 2012-2016, so it may be YA.
The main character is a young person (I think a boy?) living in semi-modern day. It's presented as suburbia. As the plot continues, little glitches in reality begin to present themselves, including people searching for them, I believe from some organization.
There is a twist at some point towards the end of the book where it is revealed that the character has had their consciousness placed in a simulated reality for protection, while their body is in fact in the future. I think the character had some level of notoriety that made this necessary? This practice is fairly common in this universe, as people choose to experience parts of a new lifetime at select areas of the past - this character specifically being sent to what we would consider 'modern day America'. There may have been elements of dystopia to this future setting, and I think that the character was actually older in the future than what they'd been presented as earlier in the book. Another character is present to explain this to them.
Kind of matrix-esque plot points, but less grim in overall tone.
May have accessible through Kindle Unlimited at some point during this time frame - I'm wondering if it was self-published. I can't remember anything about the title or the author.
The AI vs human battle is often represented in the movies as a military conflict.
But the AI's like our cold war enemies know we have nuclear weapons so they would be better off fighting a gorilla digital war of power and control than a direct military conflict.
One weapon could be the utilisation of all of our computers via addictive apps and technologies like social media or video games.
Another approach could be economic warfare and denying us the computing power to fight back via crypto-currencies or hijacking our computing power and silicon via crypto coin mining.
Social media bubbles could also be leveraged to divide and conquer countries and institutes that have power.
Imagine what a super smart AI, Alien race, Evil Mastermind or Enemy state could do to us on the digital battlefield.
I would personally not want to know.
If so, the actual earth in base reality is very similar to our simulated reality but the creatures that live on it (including hyper-intelligent creatures that created the sim) are very different.
okay, so my grandmother is dead... i think? i went to her funeral and stuff but i saw her picture in the mirror and i asked her if she's coming home tonight. at first, it was a little joke, but then i saw a nod. like, the picture, just slightly, nodded and blinked. i asked my mother what year it was, and she got defensive and just told me to lie down. next thing i know, my phone is completely dead and i hear beeping from upstairs.
tldr: i think this is like a simulation, maybe. someone convince me that its real or atleast tell me what i can do to forget this whole experience.
Read by me as a teen at some point in 2012-2016, so it may have been middle grade oriented.
The main character is a young person (I think a boy?) living in semi-modern day. It's presented as suburbia. As the plot continues, little glitches in reality begin to present themselves, including people searching for them, I believe from some organization.
There is a twist at some point towards the end of the book where it is revealed that the character has had their consciousness placed in a simulated reality for protection, while their body is in fact in the future. I think the character had some level of notoriety that made this necessary? This practice is fairly common in this universe, as people choose to experience parts of a new lifetime at select areas of the past - this character specifically being sent to what we would consider 'modern day America'. There may have been elements of dystopia to this future setting, and I think that the character was actually older in the future than what they'd been presented as earlier in the book. Another character is present to explain this to them.
Kind of matrix-esque, but less grim in overall tone.
May have accessible through Kindle Unlimited at some point during this time frame - I'm wondering if it was self-published. I can't remember anything about the title or the author. Since the plot twist was revealed later I'm guessing it was the start to a series?
Any help is appreciated I've been knee deep in goodreads for hours.
