# Tiny Bytes: Simulation Cult

**Published by:** [ldnovak](https://paragraph.com/@ldnovak/)
**Published on:** 2022-09-22
**URL:** https://paragraph.com/@ldnovak/tiny-bytes-simulation-cult

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It all started with a simple idea. If computer could simulate simple worlds, why not complex worlds? Why not our world? While the idea started off small, as computers began to grow so did the idea. Brilliant and popular minds started to believe. Cults started to form around it. The fire really started to spread once humans made the first complex simulation of the universe. If we could make humans living on Earth, why couldn’t a more advance lifeform do the same? Philosophers and other thinkers argued over whether this was a true simulation of our universe. Are these humans conscious? Are there any sim-blockers preventing us from pushing the simulation further? What are the ethics? These questions did not bother most people. Many tried to use this technology to get rich, regardless of the ethical dilemmas. Some used it cruelly to trap people in simulations. Some used it kindly to allow people to escape. Most people believed that humans will be capable of creating better and many, many more advance simulations. This belief in simulations carried over into religion. People saw the next life as another simulation. Heaven, Valhalla, Hades’ Underworld all got painted in a different color. Of course, new ideas were built on top of these beliefs. The salvation wasn’t just going to a new simulation. It was escaping the current simulation. Your actions in this life would dictate where, if at all, you went after. Of course the machine tracking everything has a copy of you. If it deemed you worthy, you get copied into heaven. If not hell. Others thought the gatekeeper wasn’t the machine, rather it was the designer of the machine. They were looking for people great enough to learn from. To copy into future world. They were looking for new art to consume and they simulated humans for it. They wanted new discoveries or code or cooking recipes. They wanted generals or explorers or to study the most depraved minds. They wanted to settle the GOAT debate in basketball. If you were chosen, maybe it was heaven. Maybe it was immortality by being copied near infinite times into more simulations. Maybe it was being consciousness in a new non-sim body. Maybe it was escaping the current game that trapped us. In this way, many people began to see being a simulated human preferable to being a non-simulated human. Your entire being can easily be copied. Of course you could randomly die if the machine went out, but you can randomly die anyway. This way I have a scientific chance of going to heaven, at living forever. I mean, the math supports it. And simulated reality is reality from perspective of those who have been simulated. This is a tree and a beautiful world after all. Or at least used to be. Some of still is. People are probably trying to simulate bad world conditions… There were a small amount of people that didn’t think we were simulated, or at least had doubts. Some with good reasons to think humans wouldn’t be able to achieve a real simulation. We can’t simulate conscious or we will die out before true simulation happens. They also feared the small chance that we weren’t in a simulation and how one could build their lives around a premise that could be so false. Byeeee, Lucas

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