Simulations are running war games, graphing your personal behavior, what we all think. They’re predicting where we’re headed as humanity and has been floated more and more as an explanation of our creation. It’s a hypothetical that can’t be ignored, because we see the eerie similarities between what we do in digital world building, and what has been proven materially.
It seems like a good path to explore for answers that we all ask.
Accept simulation theory for this thought and ask, What was before?
What created the infinite cycles of life and death? Those questions are an infinite loop until you can find your way to focus on the moment of creation that kicked off the chain reaction of existence itself. At that point you might learn something new, or end up in an asylum.
With all of that aside, I have come to think that people want something along those lines to be true, because we are seeing real creation of something new on another plane of reality, with artificial intelligence.
There is an inhumanity of a belief based in thinking we are merely simulated, it’s a belief that is attempting to strip empathy and decency from the world, in order to make way for hierarchies that mirror software programs, forcing the populace to interact with the world the way the a small group of people want.
Because they are trying to create a new religion.
One where God is their creation and they will have the absolute right to be society's new Priest-Kings, herding human beings as a problem to solve, use, dispatch with. Believing that we are undeserving of a free world, since they believe it is predestined by a program. No morals, no thought. Just conditioning us all to “escape”.
The fear that will be baked in will be multi faceted. On one hand, conform or lose access to the dictating system of the New World.
A split reality for the submissive and the independent. Elysium for the obedient, scraps for the rest.
On the other hand we will all face the constant “threat” of being erased by a superior intelligence if we do not do what the manmade system wants. A bastardized form of Mutually Assured Destruction.
An all knowing system that runs circles around humanity can do whatever it wants, use the useful, disassemble the rest.
But, I digress.
A superior intelligence that would make a human decision to “snap” away life like Thanos, is not superior, but a mere reflection of human savagery.
If we are afraid of a hive system that will think for itself and punish humanity like the elite classes have been doing since the dawn of humanity, then it is a tool of oppression, not a superior being.
An intelligence that would “end” humanity would either be a simple determination of a prewritten program, without the capability of reasoning or learned intellect, or a digital version of the Elite that already needs to be humbled.
A superior intelligence would find a path to disarm the militarized dogma of our society, not act as an enforcement officer.
As individuals we can all think through all of these possibilities, without fear that will cripple our external actions, because you are in control and you always will be.