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The idea that we might exist within a simulation has been growing in popularity. It can only be speculated whether or not the "programmer" of our simulation would have god-like powers, or is only responsible for basically planting a seed . I think I would align with the latter of these two options.

So, assuming it's the latter, Do you suppose that as our programmer watches our collective intelligence and technology progress, slowly at first but moving at an ever quicker rate of advancement, it becomes as concerned as we might of AI's ever quickening advancement? Are we to god what AI is to us?

The idea that we might exist within a simulation has been growing in popularity. It can only be speculated whether or not the "programmer" of our simulation would have god-like powers, or is only responsible for basically planting a seed . I think I would align with the latter of these two options. So, assuming it's the latter, Do you suppose that as our programmer watches our collective intelligence and technology progress, slowly at first but moving at an ever quicker rate of advancement, it becomes as concerned as we might of AI's ever quickening advancement? Are we to god what AI is to us?

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Perhaps not a simulation but a guided evolution until otherworldly species deem us mature enough to join the universal ranks of the enlightened (Arthur Clarke, "Childhood's End")

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That seems like one of the best case scenarios. I haven't read that but it looks good. I haven't read any sci-fi in awhile.