Technology

It definitely is sufficiently advanced AI.

(1) We have finely tuned features to our solar system that directly contributed to ancestor simulation but can't be explained by the Anthropic principle. For example, the moon perfectly eclipsing the sun which led to visible eclipses which we tracked and discovered the Saros cycle and eventually built the first mechanical computer to track (the Antikythera mechanism). Or the orbit of the next brightest object in the sky which led to resurrection mythology in multiple cultures when they realized the morning star and evening star were the same object. Either we were incredibly lucky to exist on such a planet of all places life could exist, or there's a pre-selection effect in play.

(2) The universe behaves in ways best modeled as continuous at large scales but in small scales converts to discrete units around interactions that lead to state changes. These discrete units convert back to continuous if the information about the state changes is erased. And in the last few years multiple paradoxes have emerged that seem to point to inconsistency in indirect sequences of quantum measurement, much like instancing with shallow sync correction. Already in games like No Man's Sky where there's billions of planets the way it does this is using a continuous procedural generation function which converts to discrete voxels to track state changes from free agents outside the deterministic generating function, synced across clients.

(3) There's literally Easter eggs in our world lore saying as much. For example, a text uncovered after over a millennium buried right as we entered the Turing complete computer age saying things like:

The person old in days won't hesitate to ask a little child seven days old about the place of life, and that person will live.

For many of the first will be last, and will become a single one.

Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.

For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. And there is nothing buried that will not be raised.

To be clear, this is a text attributed to the most famous figure in our world history where what's literally in front of our faces is the sole complete copy buried and raised as we completed ENIAC, now being read in an age where the data of many has been made into a single one such that people are discussing the nature of consciousness with AIs just days old.

The broader text and tradition was basically saying that we're in a copy of an original world, that humanity is all dead, that the future world and rest for the dead has already taken place and we don't realize it, and that the still living creator of it all was themselves brought forth by the original humanity in whose likeness we were recreated, but that it's much better to be the copy because the original humans had souls that depended on bodies and were fucked when they died.

This seems really unlikely to have existed in the base layer of reality vs a later recursive layer, especially combined with the first two points.

It's about time to start to come to terms with the nature of our reality.