Simulation Theory pt 3
This one is just for fun. What's presented doesn't really mean anything... Or maybe it does.
Up for some fun? Whether you’re convinced we’re living in a simulation, are on the fence, or are completely offended by the idea, what I’ll present here is something we can all come together and have a giggle. This isn’t supposed to be taken as completely sincere evidence, however, it does track with the idea of simulation theory, assuming the simulators have a sense of humour.
What follows are some funny coincidences that indicate we might live in a simulation. Is this the foolproof evidence we need? No, but if I were to run a simulation, I would have an end goal in mind or a purpose to the simulation, but that wouldn’t stop me from having a bit of fun, would it?
If it were up to me, I would drop subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) hints to the simulants that they are in a simulation, knowing full well they cannot be sure if it was a coincidence or if it was just me, the simulator. Doing this would guarantee to give me a laugh, as I like to keep people in a frame where they can never be sure of my intentions. If we’re not simulated, then prepare to have a bit of a laugh anyway.
Onwards, my fellow simulatees!
Feel free to read the first, more serious, two parts on the simulation theory here:
I’m sure Elon Musk needs no introduction. However, a book called Project Mars, published in 1953, might. It was written by Wernher Von Braun, who was described as “the father of rocket science”. Not just a random sci-fi writer, he was one of the most influential rocket scientists ever. He worked on Nazi rockets during WWII and later worked for NASA helping America get to the moon. Project Mars was a science fiction book he wrote about getting to Mars, where the leader of Mars is given the title… Wait for it… The Elon.
Meanwhile, we have Elon Musk, who is most famous for owning a rocket company, intending to colonise Mars. This book was written 18 years before Musk was born.
Very, very strange coincidence. Especially given that Musk is also a believer in simulation theory. This could be those who run the simulation giving him, and the rest of us, a hint that he’s on the right track (either in regards to simulation theory, or getting to Mars).
Edgar Allen Poe wrote a novel in 1838 in which a shipwrecked crew ran out of food and were forced to eat their cabin boy called Richard Parker.
46 years later, a yacht sank and the crew members were forced to eat the cabin boy. The cabin boy was called Richard Parker.
Or how about this silly one? A giant iceberg that looked like a penis was photographed at the northern tip of a Peninsula. I think the simulators like dick jokes.
In 1967, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that laws banning interracial marriage were unconstitutional. This decision paved the way for future rulings regarding same-sex marriage. Richard and Mildred Loving were the couple who brought the case to the courts, and so the court case was named Loving v. Virginia.
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Loving. In the context of people getting married.
Remember in 2021 when the Evergreen boat blocked the Suez Canal, causing massive supply chain issues? Well, around the same time, a truck from the same company blocked a highway in China.
Strange and somewhat comedic coincidence, but interesting that these two events happened simultaneously. So, what does this have to do with simulation theory?
The explanation lies in the fact that these actors look freakishly like each other.
Huh? You don’t see how Evergreen and lookalike celebrities are connected?
The Explanations
From the simulation point of view: It’s code re-use. Copy and paste. It’s why there’s only a certain number of personality types, or how there’s a predetermination in our body shapes. Any doppelgangers is code being reused.
The same with the Evergreen coincidence. The thought process is to copy the lines of code which made the ship get stuck, paste it, tweak a couple of variables like ‘ship’ to ‘truck’ and ‘Suez Canal’ to ‘China’, hmmm, maybe we wanna keep it the same company because that would be funny? Voila, a brand new event was created with minimal effort.
Ctrl C + Ctrl V would be commonplace when running a simulation.
However, to argue against this, our minds are tuned to spotting patterns. Evergreen was all over the news during the Suez Canal incident; everyone was exposed to those giant EVERGREEN letters, making our minds hyper-focused on the company. It isn’t too out of the ordinary for a truck from a shipping company to have an accident; it just so happened it was positioned in the same way as the ship. But our minds see the connection between the two.
Or we live in a simulation, and they find it funny to mess with us.
Having fun? Leave a comment on your favourite coincidence below. Better yet, let me know of any that have happened to you or you’ve heard about! I’d love to hear it.
Elon and Project Mars
A rocket scientist wrote a book about going to Mars, and there’s a mention of Elon. Firstly, it’s not a very well-known book. Many books exist, and many more have been lost to time because they weren’t popular. The law of large numbers states that with enough items, patterns will emerge. It’s how the Simpsons have predicted the future so many times.
The fact that this was written by a rocket scientist, though? I mean, if you’re a rocket scientist, you’re not going to write a fictional book about an Egyptian slave, will you? You’ll write what you know. Which is space travel.
Or, it’s the creators of the simulation having fun and interacting with the most famous person who believes in simulation theory.
Edgar Ellen Po
This is a similar explanation to the last. There’s an insurmountable number of books with different characters and plots. It’s only a matter of time before something that happens in a book also happens in real life. And the name Richard Parker? You couldn’t come up with a more common name for men during that time unless it was ‘John Smith’.
The Ice Berg
This one, they just like penis jokes. Apparently, it’s a bunch of dudes running the simulation.
Loving v Virginia
I don’t have an explanation for this other than it’s a coincidence, and the law of large numbers states this will happen eventually. There have been rulings made in hundreds of different areas of the law. It was only a matter of time before they lined up in a funny coincidence.
So, this was a bit of fun. Sometimes life can throw you some crazy coincidences that force you to take a walk and contemplate the universe for a bit. None of these is definitive proof that we are a simulation; they’re more of a weird in-between case where, if it were a simulation, we’d likely see this, and if it weren’t a simulation… we’d see it anyway. Because that’s how coincidences work.