Monthly Archives: April 2022

A Simulation Without Aliens

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Many people figure that the universe is so vast and old, it makes no sense that aliens haven’t stopped by to say hello.

What if, in the real world, aliens did turn up, and everything changed in unimaginable ways good or bad?

What if the aliens created a simulation to see what would’ve become of humans if the aliens never interfered?

If they were advanced enough to make it to Earth, they are perhaps advanced enough to build such a simulation.

Start the simulation prior to alien contact, and simply remove aliens from the simulation. Let the solar system be navigable, but beyond that is just lights in the sky and not an actual whole universe in the simulation.

Which means “we” can never see proof of aliens out there, or on Earth, because in our simulation they don’t exist!

 

DILF

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I’ve been visiting/looking after my kids, part of a random shared parenting arrangement.

Driving through the resort, the kids point out a guy – standing next to his $180K ute – who their Mum says is a DILF. And he looks it.

Thing is, most of the time in and out out of the resort – Daddy Uber – he is in the same spot doing the same thing. Instead of like, working.

I mention The Truman Show to the kids and they were made to watch it at school!

I might drive in and out a few more times than normal, to check. But of course in a simulation they will know I typed this

Timeliness

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This is a very unusual and perhaps unique thought – the simulation might conspire to make things happen in a timely manner.

Context: I regularly make a 90 minute drive. Typically I listen to the radio and when a song bores me, I start a CD. Not a CD I know well, but a CD randomly pulled from a box of CDs I have not listened tp in decades.

I haven’t looked at track listing, and have no idea of how long the album plays for. Although, obviously, it will be within a range of like 30 mins to 80 mins.

So I listen the the album and – I think 5 times now from 30 journeys – when I arrive home and park, the moment I pull the parking brake the last track finishes precisely then.

Uncanny and no way I can cause it to happen.

Last weekend I attended an expo which had lots of talks. The first we wanted to attend was at noon. Google Maps said it was a 3 hour drive so I allowed 4 hours. I went to pick up my girlfriend at 8 but she was 12 minutes late. Our journey included a detour to see a town (but couldn’t find it), and 20 minutes of a wrong turn and backtracking, and a fuel and coffee stop. By the time we dealt with the queue to get in, and the parking, and finding the tent, we sat down to watch the talk. And the moment we sat down my watch ticked over from 11:59 to 12:00.

I’m not intending to convince anyone, just showing where I am coming from.

If we live in a Truman Show existence, then maybe the system contrives to make us turn up at the right time, by putting obstacles in our path, or whatever.

Something to try and notice.