Reply #13: I'm real

[moggie]

But the rest of you are simulated.

One suggestion which has been made is that such a simulation may need to be tweaked over time. So, for example, if we were to find evidence of a step-change to a physical constant at some time in the past, that may be evidence that we're in a simulation. But there could be other possible explanations for such a change, so that doesn't seem very compelling.

I haven't read the Bostrom paper, but one thing which amuses me about the simulation theory is that it simultaneously validates and undermines religion. If we're in a simulation, then the entity responsible for this is, in any reasonable sense, a god to us. But if it's just a spotty 14-year-old with a Playstation 5000 and a copy of Sim Human, are they really worthy of worship?