SCIENCE
COMEDY
DEBATE
Sci Fight: we are living in a simulation
Wed, 13 Dec
|Howler Bar, Brunswick
Come to Howler for a burger and beer with your red or blue pill while these comedians and scientists sort fact from fiction.
Time & Location
13 Dec 2023, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm AEDT
Howler Bar, Brunswick, 7-11 Dawson St, Brunswick VIC 3056, Australia
About the event
Simulation theory posits the notion that if humanity doesn’t wipe itself out shortly, humans of the future will have massive computers. This seems legit.
But if they have massive computers; several annoying commentators argue; they will no doubt run ancestor simulations; for fun, for education, or to figure out just why 21st century humans were just really into Crossfit. If they do this, every copy of every simulation will far exceed the numbers of us biological humans, ergo, we are FAR MORE LIKELY to be a simulation than a real human. Day. Ruined.
Being in a simulation might explain some of the odder parts of reality. Shortcomings in the code might account for why certain atomic particles seem to behave differently if we’re watching them, or why Kyle Sandilands still has a job. Or why I have no memory of last Thursday.
But there’s much more it doesn’t explain. Consciousness.…