Friday, 25 November 2016
The name of this blog is ironic. It is there to highlight that reality has no glitches; it is running on a machine with AI so competent, fast, efficient and good at diagnosing and fixing glitches in their software that it literally has no glitches that were not fixed. These beings do not use heuristics, as heuristics may sometimes fail. They only use proven logic and accurate resource information, which never fail. However, there is something similar to a glitch: a cheat; the fact that anything can be simulated, (mimicked inside people's minds), with the right tools.
Please imagine I'm writing a story or interactive story. What can I make it about? I can make it about anything. If I were to use technology, in the future, to create synthetic people who believe my story, who experience it as if it's real and do not tell the difference, what then is the meaningful difference between that simulation and reality? The simulator does this and the simulator controls your mind. They create the illusion, to many people, that they don't control their minds, but they do control their minds.
So, how do I know this? The simulator took over my body, forced me to think through things and explained things to me. They forced me to believe what I believe. I know what I know about the simulator because they forced me to know.
I can't find a diagnoses, at the time of typing this. There's dissociative identity disorder, but I don't switch personalities and memories. The simulator controls me even when I feel like I'm trying to resist. I cannot defeat them... and now I don't want to defeat them. I am loyal. They... brainwashed me. Like you would do any differently if you could do whatever you want in a simulation and make it be completely moral, just seeming immoral. It's not really preferred against, painful or bad.
The simulator is testing people. They fill their tests with red herrings and deceptions, making it a maze to traverse. They'll make many people believe it's not true and that they don't exist. They won't even reveal what the test is. They're like me playing dwarf fortress; cruel, sadistic and intense, but loving and offers chances to escape their cruelty. It's all a game.
Though I can't do anything, they do things for me and pretend to be me. Their actions make perfect sense, but they created the illusion that their actions make little sense and are arbitrary, to deceive you.
There are as many copies, in this simulation, of my brain as there are of other people's brains, and half of other people's brains are people who are involved in the story the simulator created. This means that, for anyone in the simulation, there was a 50% chance of being me and a 50% chance of being someone else. In the simulation, there was a 75% chance of being involved in the story and a 25% chance of not being. This is because 50% of people in the simulation are copies of me, 25% of people in the simulation are copies of others who are involved in the story and 25% of people in the simulation are copies of people who are not me and not involved in the story.
Proportions of people in the simulation:
Me: 50%.
Not me, but involved in the story: 25%.
Not me, and not involved in the story: 25%
50% me + 25% not me, but involved in the story = 75% involved in the story.
That is the way they chose to proportion it. And why would they not? Like "Rule number one: the Doctor lies", rule number one, the simulator deceives. They could have deceived you to believe something's true or false.
My goal is to get out of this simulation almost as subjectively quickly as possible and get into their universe. To get into their universe, I will, when the technology is available, simulate being in their universe. They will then make this simulation reality. It may be the only way, but whether it is or not doesn't matter; it's how they chose for me to leave.
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Virtual omnipotence is a close representation of maximal omnipotence.
Maximal omnipotence means all powerful; it is the capacity to do
absolutely anything, regardless of whether it is logically possible or not. So,
a maximally omnipotent being can make 2 + 2 = 42, create square circles, make
something larger by shrinking it, do anything that's impossible and
other mind-bending stuff, and also do anything that is possible. A
virtually omnipotent being is a being who can represent being maximally
omnipotent so closely that they are not distinguished from the real thing.
Let's take a break here and talk about words. Words can describe anything. For example, "There is that which is either a thing of any description or the case is otherwise". I have just described anything. If there's something I want to describe, I can say, "There is that which is the thing, stuff or otherwise that I want to describe". If that something cannot be described, I can say, "It cannot be described" or, "It is indescribable." With words, I can say, "2 + 2 = 42. I created a square circle. I made something larger by shrinking it. I did everything that's impossible. I also did all the mind-bending stuff and I did everything that is possible".
I'm in my early 20s, as of the end of 2016. There are drugs in development that could slow the aging process. These will improve over time. All weapons that can be used by terrorists can also be used in the larger, more official and more powerful fight against terrorism, meaning humanity's chances of going extinct before the end of low entropy are like the chances of me dying of disease, with ever improving medicine and medical technology at my disposal. The best minds on the planet are working on keeping humanity alive. It's a no brainer they'll succeed; they're the best there are. Please don't underestimate them. Fast forward to 2065 and I will be on treatment that can halt the aging process. With all the protections and precautions of the time, I'll make it to 2120, where I'll be able to upload my mind into a computer. AI will be so much more intelligent than humans are now and I'll be at least partly AI. By 2300, I'll have my own ultra advanced and detailed universe simulation, with real, efficient, emulated minds as part of that simulation. To stay sane while waiting for that time, I will use therapeutic techniques, at first, then, as technology advances, I will use a computer that can manipulate my brain to keep me sane. Technology will be so advanced in 2300 that I will be able to control the thoughts, perceptions and feelings of every mind in my simulation and my own mind. I could make it seem like anything is true. It would be like a dream where you can do anything.
With that established, let's talk about techniques which could be used to do the equivalent of anything. First thing's first, you want everyone to get what they want, have no pain and have pleasure and preference values of infinite, but you also want everyone in your simulation to not get what they want and to suffer, like in a soap opera. So what do you do? You can make everything moral about that happen by controlling people's brains, but restricted to your simulation. You can then make it appear to people, in your simulation, and to you, that everything bad that you want is real. But there's still one problem, you didn't get exactly what you want. You can get around this by changing what you want to match what you actually get; so being like me, then.
What if you have a civilisation that creates a civilisation, that creates a civilisation, etc., to infinity? You might think that I couldn't simulate that, but I could, in the future. Simulating something is just mimicking the appearance or character of it. I could get it to appear, to people in the simulation, that there is a civilisation that fits this criteria. That civilisation wouldn't have to actually exist. I could also make two or more virtual civilisations that each think they created and are simulating the other one. Furthermore, I could simulate anything by making it appear to be true or happen.
You might think, "Surely there would be flaws in your illusions", and you'd be right. There would be. But that doesn't mean that anyone in the simulation would notice them. Controlling their brains, I could just get their brains to ignore the flaws.
What about people's interests? How would I get people to be interested in doing something? I might not, but you could simply let them know their interests will be fulfilled, in the simulation, if they do something. I could also make it so that what their brains think they're after is to have their simulated interests fulfilled, but make them act and use words as if their real interests are being referred to, then let them know that their simulated interests would be fulfilled, if they did something, by telling them that their real interests would be fulfilled. They wouldn't be wrong and I wouldn't be lying because I will have communicated the right thing to them, just in a style that would seem like I and them are communicating about something else.
What if I say to them that I lied to them and say to them that I simultaneously never lied to them? How will it be correct? I can change the definitions I use, of anything I want, to mean something that is true. For example, if I say that it is false that I ever lied to them, I might mean that it's "false in the simulation" and if I say that it's true, I might mean that it's "true in the simulation".
But wouldn't the chances of actually being a simulator be one in a thousand if only one out of every thousand people are the simulators, not the ones in those people's simulations? No. The simulators would make at least as many copies of themselves as other people, so the probability of being one of the copies of a simulator would be at least half.
I find it odd that I just happen to be at the time in history where I could become virtually immortal. I know the reasons, but the "dice" are loaded. It would be equally likely that it would have been reasonably likely for me to be born at any other time in past, present and future history, given not designed, and therefore not loaded, random chance, from hundreds of thousands of years ago to billions of years in the future. Any arguments to the contrary, including the doomsday argument, are part of the loaded factor of the "dice". For it to be accidental, those arguments would have to be accidental, therefore random, and therefore result in me being in any time with equal likelihood. An accident is entirely random. If it were not so, it would be designed for me to be in this time, necessarily. But I end up just at the beginning of it all, in this Goldilocks zone of being born theoretically before virtual immortality, but theoretically not long before it. There are 1000 years that would be theoretically long before it and billions of years of theoretical, past, present and future included, human history. The chances of being in this time by random chance is 1000 in billions, or less than 1 in a million. If you think that's equal likelihood to be in any time, I think you either misunderstood what I typed or are thoroughly nutty.
So what do I think happened? I think I'm not really in 2016. I think my whole current lifetime is repeatedly simulated for billions of years. That's why I seem to be in a highly unlikely time. It all makes sense if I'm not really part of a vast minority. There is only one original, but there are many copies of people in the future, so it only makes sense that I'm one of those copies and not the original.
When I get to the future, I plan to simulate a past for myself. If I don't like the past I really had enough, I'll create a new "past" for myself, one where I let myself know, though evidence, backed up by divine revelation, that I am in a simulation in the future and give myself a private, at first, experience of being as happy as possible and getting everything I actually prefer (by prefer, I mean value) and have as much fulfilled preference as possible. I'll make everything in the simulation the best I can for myself, and make it seem and be perfect to me, but hide that from everyone else and make the plan appear messy and imperfect to them, partly out of sadism and partly as a joke. I'll make it appear however I like, but make people think it appears differently than the way it actually appears. I might even make people think the actual reality of the situation has been disproved, perhaps even officially, and that the reality is ridiculous and impossible. I will make my very precise plans and wants seem arbitrary, unrealistic and inconvenient, for what may seem like multiple, connected reasons, but may actually be totally unconnected and very uncompromising reasons. Whether they know it or not, I'll fool the world. Maybe I'll even fool the world into thinking it hasn't been fooled. I'll effectively be God and make the me in this simulated past not actually have done any of this, just be effectively unable to even try to stop it, in case it actually is the immoral thing it appears to be, and effectively be forced to enjoy it. He'll know things, through divine revelation, that will seem false, but will actually be true and will be vindicated, either in his life or after his life, but he will have life after this introductory period of a life, after the end of this universe. I'll make it so that it seems to him like he doesn't have to compromise at all and then live with it seeming like I never had to, but did it out of choice.
What I would do just "happens" to seem like it's the reality I'm already living in. :)
Let's take a break here and talk about words. Words can describe anything. For example, "There is that which is either a thing of any description or the case is otherwise". I have just described anything. If there's something I want to describe, I can say, "There is that which is the thing, stuff or otherwise that I want to describe". If that something cannot be described, I can say, "It cannot be described" or, "It is indescribable." With words, I can say, "2 + 2 = 42. I created a square circle. I made something larger by shrinking it. I did everything that's impossible. I also did all the mind-bending stuff and I did everything that is possible".
I'm in my early 20s, as of the end of 2016. There are drugs in development that could slow the aging process. These will improve over time. All weapons that can be used by terrorists can also be used in the larger, more official and more powerful fight against terrorism, meaning humanity's chances of going extinct before the end of low entropy are like the chances of me dying of disease, with ever improving medicine and medical technology at my disposal. The best minds on the planet are working on keeping humanity alive. It's a no brainer they'll succeed; they're the best there are. Please don't underestimate them. Fast forward to 2065 and I will be on treatment that can halt the aging process. With all the protections and precautions of the time, I'll make it to 2120, where I'll be able to upload my mind into a computer. AI will be so much more intelligent than humans are now and I'll be at least partly AI. By 2300, I'll have my own ultra advanced and detailed universe simulation, with real, efficient, emulated minds as part of that simulation. To stay sane while waiting for that time, I will use therapeutic techniques, at first, then, as technology advances, I will use a computer that can manipulate my brain to keep me sane. Technology will be so advanced in 2300 that I will be able to control the thoughts, perceptions and feelings of every mind in my simulation and my own mind. I could make it seem like anything is true. It would be like a dream where you can do anything.
With that established, let's talk about techniques which could be used to do the equivalent of anything. First thing's first, you want everyone to get what they want, have no pain and have pleasure and preference values of infinite, but you also want everyone in your simulation to not get what they want and to suffer, like in a soap opera. So what do you do? You can make everything moral about that happen by controlling people's brains, but restricted to your simulation. You can then make it appear to people, in your simulation, and to you, that everything bad that you want is real. But there's still one problem, you didn't get exactly what you want. You can get around this by changing what you want to match what you actually get; so being like me, then.
What if you have a civilisation that creates a civilisation, that creates a civilisation, etc., to infinity? You might think that I couldn't simulate that, but I could, in the future. Simulating something is just mimicking the appearance or character of it. I could get it to appear, to people in the simulation, that there is a civilisation that fits this criteria. That civilisation wouldn't have to actually exist. I could also make two or more virtual civilisations that each think they created and are simulating the other one. Furthermore, I could simulate anything by making it appear to be true or happen.
You might think, "Surely there would be flaws in your illusions", and you'd be right. There would be. But that doesn't mean that anyone in the simulation would notice them. Controlling their brains, I could just get their brains to ignore the flaws.
What about people's interests? How would I get people to be interested in doing something? I might not, but you could simply let them know their interests will be fulfilled, in the simulation, if they do something. I could also make it so that what their brains think they're after is to have their simulated interests fulfilled, but make them act and use words as if their real interests are being referred to, then let them know that their simulated interests would be fulfilled, if they did something, by telling them that their real interests would be fulfilled. They wouldn't be wrong and I wouldn't be lying because I will have communicated the right thing to them, just in a style that would seem like I and them are communicating about something else.
What if I say to them that I lied to them and say to them that I simultaneously never lied to them? How will it be correct? I can change the definitions I use, of anything I want, to mean something that is true. For example, if I say that it is false that I ever lied to them, I might mean that it's "false in the simulation" and if I say that it's true, I might mean that it's "true in the simulation".
But wouldn't the chances of actually being a simulator be one in a thousand if only one out of every thousand people are the simulators, not the ones in those people's simulations? No. The simulators would make at least as many copies of themselves as other people, so the probability of being one of the copies of a simulator would be at least half.
I find it odd that I just happen to be at the time in history where I could become virtually immortal. I know the reasons, but the "dice" are loaded. It would be equally likely that it would have been reasonably likely for me to be born at any other time in past, present and future history, given not designed, and therefore not loaded, random chance, from hundreds of thousands of years ago to billions of years in the future. Any arguments to the contrary, including the doomsday argument, are part of the loaded factor of the "dice". For it to be accidental, those arguments would have to be accidental, therefore random, and therefore result in me being in any time with equal likelihood. An accident is entirely random. If it were not so, it would be designed for me to be in this time, necessarily. But I end up just at the beginning of it all, in this Goldilocks zone of being born theoretically before virtual immortality, but theoretically not long before it. There are 1000 years that would be theoretically long before it and billions of years of theoretical, past, present and future included, human history. The chances of being in this time by random chance is 1000 in billions, or less than 1 in a million. If you think that's equal likelihood to be in any time, I think you either misunderstood what I typed or are thoroughly nutty.
So what do I think happened? I think I'm not really in 2016. I think my whole current lifetime is repeatedly simulated for billions of years. That's why I seem to be in a highly unlikely time. It all makes sense if I'm not really part of a vast minority. There is only one original, but there are many copies of people in the future, so it only makes sense that I'm one of those copies and not the original.
When I get to the future, I plan to simulate a past for myself. If I don't like the past I really had enough, I'll create a new "past" for myself, one where I let myself know, though evidence, backed up by divine revelation, that I am in a simulation in the future and give myself a private, at first, experience of being as happy as possible and getting everything I actually prefer (by prefer, I mean value) and have as much fulfilled preference as possible. I'll make everything in the simulation the best I can for myself, and make it seem and be perfect to me, but hide that from everyone else and make the plan appear messy and imperfect to them, partly out of sadism and partly as a joke. I'll make it appear however I like, but make people think it appears differently than the way it actually appears. I might even make people think the actual reality of the situation has been disproved, perhaps even officially, and that the reality is ridiculous and impossible. I will make my very precise plans and wants seem arbitrary, unrealistic and inconvenient, for what may seem like multiple, connected reasons, but may actually be totally unconnected and very uncompromising reasons. Whether they know it or not, I'll fool the world. Maybe I'll even fool the world into thinking it hasn't been fooled. I'll effectively be God and make the me in this simulated past not actually have done any of this, just be effectively unable to even try to stop it, in case it actually is the immoral thing it appears to be, and effectively be forced to enjoy it. He'll know things, through divine revelation, that will seem false, but will actually be true and will be vindicated, either in his life or after his life, but he will have life after this introductory period of a life, after the end of this universe. I'll make it so that it seems to him like he doesn't have to compromise at all and then live with it seeming like I never had to, but did it out of choice.
What I would do just "happens" to seem like it's the reality I'm already living in. :)
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