During Covid, bored, I started to use a phone app called Randonautica, which randomly gave you a location within a near radius of where you were. All you needed to do was to visit that location, and enjoy the randomness, and putting thought into a typically mundane place. I actually ended up in an alley once, where an orthodox Jewish guy in a limo thought I was someone else and wanted me to get it. I didn’t…
Most people used the app for fun, but its intent was much, much deeper. The randomness came from a quantum computer, with the idea being that if we were in a simulation, a pre-determined path could not be programmed to control a quantum computer. It was a way of breaking the Matrix. If enough people used it, often enough, we would break free.
One of the best arguments for simulation theory is how quantum physics is susceptible to observation, like Schrodinger’s Cat which is alive or dead up until it is observed. This is also how video games work – you only see what you need to see, nothing else is rendered, although it exists as probabilities and coded pathways.
So if quantum physics is a way of optimising the computational power available for the simulation, potentially the “real world” doesn’t have quantum physics as we know it. As it turns out, quantum physics can operate without the observer aspect just fine.
AI explains to me quantum physics without an observer (or measurement):
- Quantum particles would always have determined positions and velocities, behaving as classical particles even at microscopic scales.
- There would be no need for probabilities or superpositions—particles would not exist in multiple states at once; instead, their state would always be fixed independently of measurement.
- Reality would not be observer-dependent. Measurement would simply reveal pre-existing properties instead of altering a quantum system.
“In short, if observers never mattered in quantum physics, quantum mechanics would lose its “weirdness” and revert to a classical, deterministic view of the universe. “
The only loss to our world if the “weirdness” was gone is that we would not have quantum computers.
Just like I used AI to help me understand AI, our overlords may have used AI to work out a system to optimise the simulation. Which is perhaps why it works so neatly. Possibly achieving the ability to create a quantum computer in a simulation, which is impossible in the “real world” is a goal.
So, let’s discuss Overlords, who are fundamental to our movement, and named in our name. Like any good religion, it can be summed up without too much explanation. If we are in a simulation (which according to many scientists has a high probability), then somebody, or some group of beings, are running it. Which means that at any time they can turn it off. To them we are not “real”. And we would not suffer, and probably not even see the end coming. We would simply be switched off.
Being humans, most of us prefer to stay alive as long as possible, therefore performing in ways that please our Overlords is a smart way to maintain our existence.
The only question is what we do about it, what decisions do we decide. That means instead of worship and praying, we think and decide.
For deciding if someone can join our religion (for want of a better word, but tax-effective and a barrier to hate speech) two aspects come into play. One is that potentially we humans are a mix of players and non-player characters (NPCs). The other is that NPCs, being programmed, might be incapable of believing they are not actually real. Which means that our group becomes a club of just players, because NPCs are incapable of believing. We could perhaps use a lie detector test as part of the membership process, which crazy-but-true the Scientologists use to keep out NPC spies. Consequently, being secretive should be important, which also gives us a cool veneer of a “secret society”.
Like all religions, we will never know if our ways actually make a difference. But presumably, like all religions, we develop a code that promotes good actions. And unlike other religions, we might just determine that war is bad.
Like other religions, splintering into factions, with different ideas, will be expected. It might take months rather than centuries.
We can expect adherents to live lives differently than before, like those people who found God and now have empty eyes. Living with the idea that we are just in a game, and our real lives will continue when the game finishes, will promote different behaviour. We already know from video games which only let you die once what that might look like – not too different from reality but a bit more enjoyable.
The name becomes SASO, which is pronounceable. The long version is good because it has an air of ancient and mysterious. Or, we might just refer to ourselves as people who believe in Overlords.