Simulation Argument

Can I get a quick rundown on bulk space? I want to take the bulkpill.

What is the point of the argument, if we only exist in a wholly realistic simulated reality? If there is no means of telling it apart from some "real reality" that we may not even exist in, how does that reorder the way I live? What question does it seek to answer?

Not him, but do you know about the God helmet?(en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet)

Whatever people experience on drugs, doesn't make those things real. How would you, as a threedimensional being even know or recognize a fifth dimension? Much more likely they experienced what they think was another dimension.
I'm a big proponent of drugs btw.

not my reviews, but here are some more devoted people
>Out of body experiences, clairvoyance, fortune telling, intelligent beings from another dimension, etc, etc. After 200 pages I had to put down this book.
>I wouldn't be that offended by the author's accounts if this was a work of subjective selfreflection, but he repeatedly claims that "THIS STUFF IS REAL!" (emphasis his) . I don't doubt the author believes what he writes, but his loose logic and bad science crossed the line for me.
>How did I end up reading this book? Oh, well.

Anyways, my background is engineering, so maybe it is easier for me to see when someone starts to spout sciency sounding bullshit. What is worse, people tend to absorb murky definitions creating their own meanings, which gives them the feeling of understanding. But if you ask them to define what is, let's say good energy or soul they get stuck and become irritated. They get angry, because they adhere their feeling to some cloudy sciency definition. That's just how pseudoscience works.

Why don't you go read the original argument you fucking retard redditor.

The major conclusion by Bostrom isn't even about a simulation. It's about the philosopher John Leslie's Doomsday argument. It's not meant to be a scientific explanation either, so stop framing the entire concept as a hypothesis. The argument is saying that if we aren't in a simulation, then it is highly likely humanity is doomed. He's set up the argument in classic "horns of the dilemma" style, by a series of probabilistic assessments, that either we are in a simulation, or humanity is likely to die.

At least one of the major philosophical consequences here is of practical import: existential threats to humanity. Of which, Bostrom is a major researcher in. That's what is going on here. Fucking pea-brained fuckwit.

>tips fedora

so, like, only quack gather in Veeky Forums or what?
Okay whatever, to hell with consciousness. Any good books on society, social psychology, social philosophy, engineering philosophy? Something like: The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood - very interesting and easily accessible.

Except he never defines it as "energy" or soul or whatever, he calls it simply "consciousness"

And that review is horrible. Yea the first book may sound like unfactual bs, but most of his facts and scientific findings are detalied in the 2nd and 3rd book of the trilogy. It's just that you can't really understand what he's trying to say with his facts unless the reader puts himself in his shoes and experiences to understand the concept he's trying to expand upon. Maybe the 1st book isn't as scientifically sound, but i defininitally recommend picking up the 2nd and 3rd book if you have a similar background in the sciencies

>Except he never defines it as "energy" or soul or whatever, he calls it simply "consciousness"
I am talking here generally, giving examples that I encountered in everyday life. When murky definitions get mixed up with core beliefs and feeling there is no end game. Most people are vapid, so they feel personally attacked when you deconstruct their view of the world.
>just gonna leave the pic here.

That's funny, because Campbell is completely on your side when he talks about how our expectation-fueled belief systems are the ones that that block our connection to the Non Physical Matter Reality. And the pic that you attached is just him talking about said beliefs when it comes to the process of experiencing an out of body state. As someone that has experienced that multiple times without the use of drugs, you cannot engage into the NPMR with the belief that you're going to see god or whatever, or the expectation that you'll succeed.