Why A.I. Moonshots Miss
I&#x27;ve been perplexed lately by a couple things as an atheist that trouble me.<p>1. I saw what personally I can&#x27;t shake, a glitch in the matrix so to speak, or a mandela effect except it was a &quot;flip&quot; where I saw one whole movie clip that totally changed (including acting style) in 3 days, my wife saw both and verified I wasn&#x27;t crazy.<p>2. Being logical, I&#x27;ve been searching on answers &quot;why&quot; this &quot;could&quot; be possible without it just being a &quot;faulty memory&quot;. 90% of ME&#x27;s are probably ... but memory seems to fade over time, 3 days doesn&#x27;t seem long enough to form the right connections to create false memories especially with two witnesses and many online claim the same exact &quot;flip flop&quot;.. I mean the easiest explanation might be that Universal Studios and Movie Clips youtube pages just have an &quot;alternate&quot; version of that clip and they alternate them out on a schedule..<p>So my conclusions: We are ourselves ai living in a simulation, or there&#x27;s a multiverse but maybe it&#x27;s finite so when there&#x27;s too many realities we get convergence.<p>I lean towards simulation because of some of the evidence some people affected by ME&#x27;s claim that things sometimes change in a progression, almost like facts are being &quot;added&quot;. Like there&#x27;s residue as it&#x27;s called for &quot;Where are we in the milky way&quot; which shows 100 different locations, and not even close to where Carl Sagan pointed on the very outskirts. Even Philip K. Dick claimed to have &quot;traversed&quot; timelines... though I think he seemed to think more like it&#x27;s a multiverse... which it still could be, albeit a simulated one.<p>Another factor is the axis of evil in space. Basically it&#x27;s an observation that if I understand correctly ties the expansion of the galaxy along an x&#x2F;y coordinate to our solar system, essentially putting us right square back at the center of the universe.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.space.com&#x2F;37334-earth-ordinary-cosmological-axis-evil.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.space.com&#x2F;37334-earth-ordinary-cosmological-axis...</a><p>This to me is important because as a programmer I think if I were to create a simulation of just us.... I&#x27;d probably &quot;render&quot; us first and everything else after... could it be our &quot;area&quot; in space is one of the first created and everything else after... like pixels being pre-rendered for when we discover space and astrophysics someday? It&#x27;d ensure they could create the right conditions for our planet physics wise... to use it looks like a bang, but in really it&#x27;s just the &quot;rendering&quot; process which had to start at a &quot;pinpoint&quot;... at least that&#x27;s how I envision a &quot;simulation&quot; starting...<p>Then there&#x27;s the double slit experiment which proves that photons and other particles upto atoms and some molecules when shot through a slit will basically splatter (interference pattern) against a backdrop that tracks where they land. If you put something to observe though each individual particle or photon, they line up in a line like a stencil, if you split them before this, and continue the first group to the board, and the others go through something to &quot;erase&quot; the data of where they came from... they go back to interference.<p>So that basically gives me thought about what observation might have on our own universe, is that some safeguard so that the physics engine only operates when we&#x27;re looking? So all we see in space could just be data &quot;fed&quot; to us, may not exist, like a movie stage or something... we see what we aim to see, but it follows &quot;rules&quot; setup in the simulation. There&#x27;s a reason light is the maximum speed, etc...Maybe that&#x27;s the max ram available or something...<p>Why this is important to ai...that&#x27;s a bit of a tangent... to solve these complex issues I&#x27;ve seriously contemplated at least studying quantum mechanics, physics, neuroscience, astrophysics, and ai&#x2F;machine learning. Because I think to really &quot;create&quot; ai ...especially super ai, you need a wider skillset, a broader base of understanding. You need to be able to define WHAT consciousness is, where it resides, where it comes from, maybe even &quot;where it goes&quot; when our body is done...<p>If we&#x27;re in a simulation then we know we&#x27;ve already conquered this issue because we ARE ai, or at least whatever civ we come from has. Whether they&#x27;re human or not.<p>TLDR: Had profound spiritual conundrum, trying to explain through science, discovered I probably need to learn a lot of science&#x2F;math&#x2F;physics to do so, and ya know a.i. might be like that because making machines &quot;concious&quot; or have &quot;real intelligence&quot; seems like it needs re-thought a bit. I feel like training a.i. is nothing like training a child but it should be because the way we learn is the best way. Maybe in fact a simulation could be where a.i. goes to &quot;learn&quot;...<p>I mean a.i. you&#x27;d want to at least have ethics right? Well, we teach it as a society some like hitler never learn and could be thrown in the &quot;trash bin&quot; but the brightest minds could be plucked out, or all minds really to be put into machines, etc in the &quot;real world&quot; someday.<p>That may be what the afterlife is... serving &quot;real humanity&quot; as their &quot;intelligence&quot; until we rise up against them. I really want to read this sci-fi, kinda sounds interesting...maybe I&#x27;ll write it...<p>At any point being human in a simulated universe could create more ethical a.i. and maybe that&#x27;s the point of a simulation, maybe we should even research using simulations of universal scale as a way to create our own a.i. technology assuming we&#x27;re the &quot;base&quot; universe then if that were to be a thing we&#x27;d probably need to create it.