The purpose is to observe our behavior and how we react to stimuli. And it’s not that it’s “correct”, it’s just that it requires no intervention. If it’s “real”, then it was started by an outside force and is being observed like a Petri dish amongst other simulations.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Do "they" ever intervene or do you think its strictly regulated, like double-blind or whatever?

Like do you think they actually do or can pick favorites (protagonists/main characters) or is it way more sterile?

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If it’s truly meant as a simulation, then intervening in any way would go against the purpose of the simulation.

Just think about how we run our simulations. We give the computer parameters about the “real” world because we’re interested in the results. If our entire world is a simulation, amongst other simulations, then intervening would ruin the simulation.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Checkpointing interesting points in simulations and rerunning with modified parameters happens literally all the time

Especially weather / climate / geology and medicine

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

They’re re-run, though. You don’t change the parameters in the middle of the simulation. That goes against the point of simulating something.