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by dandanua 1885 days ago
I had some laughs when I skipped through his text.

He claims that his theory

  > 1. Is based on serious scientific and philosophical hypothesies.
The reference is his own paper where he writes

  > I show that existing MMORPGs (online simulations we have already created) actually reproduce every general feature of quantum mechanics within their simulated-world reference-frames. Second, I show that existing MMORPGs also replicate (and so explain) many philosophical problems we face in the philosophy of mind, time, personal identity, and free will – all while conforming to the Libertarian Compatibilist model of reality
I guess he does "science" between raids in WoW.
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This is the first time I've heard "Libertarian" not mean something political. TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism_(metaphysics)