Is Our Reality Just a Simulation? | Tatarit (Mod) Yensuang | TEDxYouth@ISBangkok

In a world where our technological progress is continually multiplying at a pace we cannot predict, it is difficult to tell where our future is heading. In a span of just a few years, our technology now enables us to simulate complex worlds that are nearly impossible to distinguish from reality. What would these simulations be like in 50 years? 500 years? Could it be possible that someone, somewhere in the future has created a simulation that is our very own reality? This talk explores the possibility that we are living in a simulation created by a much more advanced civilization, but more importantly, whether it matters to us at all. Tatarit (Mod) Yensuang is a 16-year-old junior studying at International School Bangkok. Alongside his leadership and engagement in many school clubs and activities, such as the Student Communications Group, Make a Difference club, and Giving Hands Project, he is also in lead of several tech-oriented clubs at ISB, including Initiative Technology, Software Development club, as well as the Technology Council due to his profound interest in technology and the significant impacts it has on our modern world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@sandoso2679]

The best thing in TH-cam is the comments section.

[@aryakumar4341]

agreed

[@petermoygannon698]

I've got a question. if we were in a simulated reality. can our simulators fast forward time make a 24 hr day a 5 minute day. . its all in a computer so I'm thinking yes. ?????

[@terminusest1759]

In theory they Can, as Long as We experiance the simulated 24 hours as 24 hours, why would they Not? Look at it this way, in theory your simulation could Just have started, in this second, this comment that you wrote 3 weeks ago, never happend it is Just your "memory". Your whole excistance could be simulated in Just a couple of hours, and We would never know.

[@aryakumar4341]

If we were in a simulation, your entire life would equal x0

[@ryanashfyre464]

If our programmers were so inclined, of course they could. That's child's play. As long as they don't have any self-imposed restrictions, a simulator could move entire galaxies around as they pleased, resurrect the entire history of humanity, extinguish the sun like a candle flame, and whatever your imagination could conceive and much more.

[@jeffmatts2919]

@@ryanashfyre464 :)

[@tropicofpossibility]

highly recommend reading "Dreamstate" by Jed Mckenna

[@aryakumar4341]

Indeng

[@daniDEE_tv]

deserves more likes then i see since post date ... +1 on topic

[@MonkeyBrainMcGee]

What is that weird blinking throughout the video?

[@aryakumar4341]

you

[@icydoom4603]

Whos here in 2022

[@Nicholsp01]

To maintain the integrity of the simulation, it self censors to stop you from taking the idea seriously. Just try and read this book - The Word of Bob - an AI Minecraft Villager. The simulation will not let you. It was written to expose how and why the simulation was created.

[@aryakumar4341]

Outdeng goes to indeng in the simulation

[@man_of_lawlessness]

I wonder who the Alpha and beta testers are then? Like who are the people spotting the errors in the simulation? Like is it people who 100% unaware that they're sporting errors for the system.
It's odd when u 🤔 about it coz at the very beginning (when it's switched on) there would have to be rules for every single variable (atoms etc) which could mean that the system is always following the starting rules whilst either allowing everything else around them basic rules to evolve.
Or everything could simply be preterminded following the first set of rules whilst being denied the opportunity to evolve and flourish.
I think it has to be the first one where there's basic rules for growth and expansion whilst the rest of the variables are allowed to multiply and divide.
The second theory would be cruel and pointless because you'd get fascinating results if you allow each variable to change and flourish. Each time you ran it you'd end up with different scenarios lol

[@aryakumar4341]

You sir are a sigma male

[@nhood60richroller]

they crashed here is how we found out

[@Mikasks]

Sorry to break it to you guys but the processing power needed to load our entire universe is beyond what OUR physics allows us to do. The Computer’s processing power is definitely improving at a rapid rate right now however we are actually slowing down, we have already passed the “point of maximum” and starting to slow down. If you want a visualization, search “logistic growth” with the “carrying capacity” being the boundaries of physics. Simulated universe by a supercomputer actually exist today, but they can only simulate up to galaxies, I wonder how they’re gonna try to simulate individual planets? atoms? Quarks? I really dont think we can do it according to our knowledge of the boundaries of physics. I can explain what’s hindering us from improving our computing power however there’s a lot of yt videos on that. I can surely say that if any civilization tries to make a simulated reality, they would probably make the physics as close as possible to their original world for obvious reasons. So if our “creators” is bound by the same physics as us, simulated reality is just impossible.

[@Uthandol]

You are looking at it wrong. Our physics are just parameters of the simulation. Who knows what the creators are bound by. Or what they are.

[@Mikasks]

@@Uthandol that is very true but why would our “creators” make us “weaker” than them? We can’t get out of the simulation, so there’s no real threat to them. Also, isn’t the purpose of a simulation is to actually study about themselves(creators)? So you would think they would make the physics(parameter) as close as possible to their physics just like how we made the simulated universe as close as possible to our universe to study our universe?

[@Uthandol]

@@Mikasks We as humans study many lower life forms in simulation like locations. Mice in a maze is an example. We also subject animals to conditions we ourselves are not subjected to. These are but a few of the many reasons why they may be working with a different set of parameters when it comes to psychics.
I am not saying this is case. I am firmly agnostic and am willing to let others have their own faiths or ideas. I have no answers, just more idea's. The idea that we are but code or another form of holographic life in a holographic universe is very VERY terrifying to many people. Not only will there be no afterlife but everything we are and have and will ever strive for is near meaningless. It is a hard pill to swallow.
And its even worse when we look further down into particle physics (double blind test) that this answer to the question becomes more and more likely. It also raises many ethical opinions since more than 80% of our species lives in third world conditions and suffer daily. What kinda cunts would simulate that?

[@aryakumar4341]

simply put

[@Mikasks]

@@Uthandol I haven’t thought about it that way. Thanks a lot for sharing.

[@86Smally]

Your just ripping off Nick bostrums work boooooo

[@killahbong]

nonsense

[@Freedom001]

He seems nervous or boring or not certain about what he's even doing there

[@aryakumar4341]

Sir, you are not certain about your comment

[@aryakumar4341]

respectfully