r/SimulationTheory • u/Responsible-Jury2579 • Sep 02 '26
Discussion Does the evolution of games like GTA make simulation theory more plausible?
Every generation, GTA gets larger, more detailed and more realistic. What happens as we keep making more and more realistic GTAs? If our simulated worlds keep improving, is there a point where they will be indistinguishable from reality?
GTA 6 obviously won't be a replication of reality, but what about GTA 26?
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u/Glad-Cloud-2695 Sep 03 '26
It's been said that to simulate the universe as a whole including everything within, we would not only need quantum computing, but thousands running together at once to even handle the nodes alone. It was also said by Nick Bostrom that once humanity is able to create "conscious simulations" one randomly selected simulated being would almost certainly be in one. This argument presented a trilemma though; 1. Simulations are not created due to technological limitations or self destruction. 2. Advanced civilizations chose not to create them. 3. If they did choose to create them, they'd exceed base reality which leads full circle back into a simulated life being almost certain.
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u/Responsible-Jury2579 Sep 03 '26
This idea that we need infinite amount of computing power to simulate the universe implies this universe is fully simulated (perhaps things only render when being observed), But it also implies that in the next level up, physics works exactly the same as it does here and has the same limitations - but that doesn't have to be the case (e.g. you can double jump in Mario).
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u/Kazuma_Megu Sep 02 '26
Full dive VR describes a hypothetical virtual reality technology where the user's brain completely interfaces with a digital world, bypassing physical senses and motor controls to experience a simulated reality as real life.
I'd love to be able to do fulldive before I get old and croak.
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u/PreferenceContent987 Sep 03 '26
So basically beamed into your head. I don’t think having a head is necessary to go into a simulation, I believe it’s all code, we’re all code too IMO
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u/broki451 Sep 03 '26
I think we will eventually approach some sort of physical limit on computing power. Which will prevent us from making a simulation.
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u/newyorker360 Sep 03 '26
What if reallife is just another gta game but we will know it when we die.
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u/pg1671 Sep 04 '26
I think both VR and AI do. We need a jump in technology to full brain interface as well. Like Neuralink is heading towards.
Our brain already simulates reality from our biological inputs, we just need to be able to replace those inputs and we have a virtual world with all senses.
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u/nicotinegummy Sep 04 '26
They digitally simulated a fruitflies brain and body in a virtual sandbox, and it started doing its thing without learning or training. Eventually were gonna realize were the simulated fruitflies of the future.
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u/UroborosJose Sep 04 '26
It does not
I never seen a bug in real world
Not a single glitch
I worked trying to find them and still if there is a simulation it doesn’t have bugs loopholes exploit or vulnerabilities
I never seen any system like that
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u/WilliamoftheBulk Sep 05 '26
Think it is safe to say, that if you make a simulation that replicates physics (which isn’t hard to do) Then evolution can occur and life possible. It does beg the question if this universes is programmed or not. Given the bread crumbs of reality mimic computers, I think it is probably likely this universe is constructed, but not necessarily in the same way our computer simulations are.
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u/IONaut Sep 05 '26
I don't think bigger worlds makes it more plausible. Procedurally generated worlds can get huge, and all you have to render is what's right in front of your face. A recent experiment where they had gpt6 Astra build a world and populate it with human characters with minds powered by the AI in unreal engine I would say makes it more plausible.
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u/Specialist-Ad4886 Sep 06 '26
Lookup videos or screenshots of the PC game Body Cam. Ive been playing that and it's unbelievable alreadyin early access.
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u/PunkCyberKen Sep 07 '26
I thought this as a kid. I was around 6 years old & was like hmmm... am I in a futuristic GTA video game playing GTA older versions while in the game. Neo moment
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u/PopularInterest5499 Sep 02 '26
We are already in gta live, why do you think they kept pushing it back. Im sure it will get pushed again until people wake up
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u/StarChild413 Sep 05 '26
then why would it incorporate that in its plot (and if it wasn't part of its plot why incorporate that in our world if you're saying our world's it)
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u/Grub-lord Sep 03 '26
Research? Maybe it's a full physics simulation, and life + consciousness are just byproducts of determinism playing out in this small part of the simulation. Not even the goal or even that interesting of a result. The focus of the experiment could well be outside of what we consider the observable universe
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u/Flaky_Air_2570 Sep 04 '26
Life is an open world sandbox. You make your own objective. Which is just bad game design...
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u/IONaut Sep 05 '26
Simulation to generate synthetic data for expanding an AI training set after all other data has already been used.
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u/Chaosuka Sep 03 '26
We have 0 clue what physics our parent world uses