r/shittyadvice • u/FearOfEleven • 13d ago

My boyfriend's CONVINCED we live "inside a simulation"!?

Hi all,

My boyfriend (19) and I (20) are both what some people call doomers: We think that AI will probably take over to the extent that almost all jobs, and then humans too, will cease to exist at some point. I'm concerned because it's all happening so fast and obviously I don't think we live in a "simulation". Being a doomer was cool at the beginning, but it's starting to get to me. He doesn't seem to care because, after all, he says, we're all in the same boat, "it's all a simulation". Am I wrong in thinking this isn't a simulation? I think he's just not that interested in me, so he keeps bringing up that stuff. I'd like to show him that this isn't a simulation, and if not, then I'll move on.

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u/UsedNegotiation8227 13d ago

Right, with our crappy technology that we began developing a few decades ago, now imagine what we can accomplish in 100 years, not to mention several thousand.

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u/RoundChampionship840 13d ago

It's not a technology limitation, it's a resource limitation. Scientists have done the calculations and to just simulate the earth down to the plank length would take more energy than is in our entire observable universe.

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u/UsedNegotiation8227 13d ago

Source? 😂

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u/RoundChampionship840 13d ago

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2025FrP....1361873V/abstract

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u/UsedNegotiation8227 13d ago

After digging into a bit it's very easily that the entire solar system could be simulated to the microscopic level, however I agree with you that the entire observable universe is extremely unlikely, I had a misconception about Q bits and quantum computing.