[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

What would it possibly matter? If I told you tomorrow that the entire universe as you know it is running on some extra-dimensional alien computer, how exactly is your life changed? Is it any more or less meaningful? Will your suffering be any less painful, your happiness any less joyful?

Besides, how would you even tell the difference between a bug in the simulation and legitimate physics? I mean, look at electron tunneling.

[shakna]

> Is it any more or less meaningful? Will your suffering be any less painful, your happiness any less joyful?

My happiness won't change, but I would be excited.

If we are indeed in a simulator, then I would be compelled to create or join an effort to attract the attention of a being outside the simulator. Not for worship, but discourse.

To be able to communicate with something outside of what we had perceived as reality, and would be no less real, would be an amazing opportunity.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

I admit, that would be exciting and interesting... but also probably impossible. Communication requires shared context, and it is likely whatever our experience of reality is bears no relationship whatsoever to theirs. Imagine Super Mario Bros is a simulation that hosts intelligence. Do you think he interprets data that ultimately becomes pixels on a screen anything like the way we do?

[camgunz]

It would literally make the whole of human history a lie, in the same way that Mario never saved the princess and I haven't shot hundreds of ducks.