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A socialist perspective on simulation theory. (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I was thinking about human development and how as we get further into a socialist society we may find it hard to get children to fully grasp what past systems were like.

There are people who theorize we are a simulation and they give various ideas for why this might be. One most of them wouldnt consider as they are libs is we could just be in a full immersion learning environment. Imagine we are all students in some future school who have been sent into a simulated past to live the lives our ancestored lived and see first hand the horrors of capitalism. Start taking notes youre probably gonna have to write a paper on all this shit once you wake up.

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[–] King_Simp@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Maybe, but my main issue is that it doesn't change anything. Let's say we assume that we are in a simulation...what now? If you had 100% irrefutable proof of it, what would we do? And if you can't convince others, what would change on an individual level? I still feel pain and love and sadness, so it's kinda pointless, i feel anyway.

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Well like i said in another comment i dont actually think we are in a simulation, but if we were it would have certain practical applications. We could attempt to manipulate the code of it, and also like that argument works on lots of stuff anyway. Who cares if there was a big bang i still have to go to work. Who cares if the sun will go supernova in 4 billion years, etc. Just because something doesn't have an immediate effect on our daily life doesnt mean we shouldnt be curious about it. In fact id say the fact some people are so downtrodden by capitalism that they dont care about stuff like that is pretty sad.