"We don't have ethics for killing bacteria or plants - only for creatures that we can convincingly project our emotions onto. The "humans" in our VMs operate completely differently from us on a fundamental level, and therefore should not be taken any more seriously than a machine that's programmed to print 'I feel sad'."
that's paula miner, project manager of Doki Doki Literature Club speaking.
what i find ironic is that the engineers of DDLC are trying to develop a simulation to determine whether they are in a simulated universe, and yet they treat their simulated beings like garbage. i mean, doesn't that basically give permission to the simulators of your universe to also do the same?
i've been reading a lot about simulation theory lately - the theory that what we view as the supernatural is actually of artifical origin. that is, a man plays god, and we're executables in a simulation of the Earth.
a few things stand out to me about this theory. first, there's the matter of how simulation theory slots into the free will argument. if we're all simulated beings, does that automatically mean that we have no free will?