The easiest way to solve this existential question is to ask another.
“If true, what about my life actually changes?”
The answer is of course. Nothing. Your form of existence hardly matters, whether made from atoms and DNA or Hard Data, you are real and your thoughts and feelings matter. All that changes is that you are distantly aware that the universe is powered artificially.
Maybe all other humans are only about as well-simulated as current LLMs.
Welcome to 17th century philosophy. Radical doubt is not a new idea and this has already been discussed to death. Believing that you are a Truman Show-esque character doesn’t really help you with anything. Same as wondering if you are a simulation, rather than just in one.
The world is real enough to hand consequences to you just as soon as you start treating other people like they aren’t actually real. Arguing that people, who aren’t you, don’t exist, is the same as arguing that you are the only person who actually exists in the world.
The easiest way to solve this existential question is to ask another.
“If true, what about my life actually changes?”
The answer is of course. Nothing. Your form of existence hardly matters, whether made from atoms and DNA or Hard Data, you are real and your thoughts and feelings matter. All that changes is that you are distantly aware that the universe is powered artificially.
Yes. My thoughts and feelings matter. But if it’s simulated with a few shortcuts, your thoughts and feelings might not exist.
Maybe all other humans are only about as well-simulated as current LLMs.
Welcome to 17th century philosophy. Radical doubt is not a new idea and this has already been discussed to death. Believing that you are a Truman Show-esque character doesn’t really help you with anything. Same as wondering if you are a simulation, rather than just in one.
The world is real enough to hand consequences to you just as soon as you start treating other people like they aren’t actually real. Arguing that people, who aren’t you, don’t exist, is the same as arguing that you are the only person who actually exists in the world.