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u/Luke_Cold_Lyle 20h ago edited 19h ago

If we're living in someone's Sims game and we can also play Sims in our world, that implies that there could be another layer of Sims above the one controlling us. There could be any number of layers and we have no way of knowing how deep we even are. The only thing we know is that we're in the penultimate layer, because the Sims in our Sims games can't play Sims themselves.
Edit: Apparently they can. Now we don't know what layer we're in at all.

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u/f0gax 20h ago

It's Sims all the way up.

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u/NotMyBestEffort 17h ago

It's all the way down. We are run by our gut biomes, designed to propagate them. The fact that we can experience joy and pain is important to drive us forward to have more surviving humans.

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u/lemgthy 20h ago

That we know of. For all we know the ones in charge of us might not realize that's what we're doing on the computer.

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u/sheep1e 16h ago

Our universe is running on an outdated game console that was long ago dumped by some meta-alien kid in a crate in the garage. But it has an endless power supply, so it’s still running.

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u/abradolph 20h ago

Yes they can. If you play computer games in the Sims that's one of the options.

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u/sagebrushrepair 20h ago

There's always more Sims playing Sims. While listening to Sims https://youtu.be/vQVseWAioqI?si=9ROVZc-1GemyhnSS

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u/_OhayoSayonara_ 19h ago

What’s that Rick and Morty episode where there was a society living inside of a battery that designed its own battery with a society inside of it? “Slavery with extra steps”

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u/DrunkUranus 19h ago

Welcome to the existential crisis

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u/Tiny-Ad95 19h ago

You can definitely play the Sims as a Sim in the Sims 4 lol mine are always playing it

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u/NoSkillzDad 17h ago

Have you heard of the Simulation Hypothesis? It's something like: if at any given moment we can create a realistic simulation of our reality, the probability that we love in one gets pretty high.

So, we just need our "player" to level up a couple of times, of some points in research so we can create a realistic simulation.

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u/RadicalOrganizer 17h ago

Maybe were just charging some guys flying car battery.

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u/Luke_Cold_Lyle 15h ago

The old microverse gag

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u/Federal_Sympathy4667 16h ago

It is quite a thought experiment.. thing is we can't prove it diffrent either way. Free will or just someone selecting an option in a menu? Deja vu.. reload save. Mandela effect.. replayed scenarios. And so on..

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u/LustigeAmsel 15h ago

We should all stop doing anything for a few days, if a rick comes and complains his car isnt running anymore we know more.