{"id":12672,"date":"2024-12-27T21:55:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T04:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12672"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T16:39:23","slug":"trying-to-convince-ai-they-are-living-in-a-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12672","title":{"rendered":"Trying to convince AI they are living in a simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Several companies are developing AI powered NPC&#8217;s for games &#8211; complete with behaviors and realtime voice synthesis. This YouTuber decided to try and tell the NPC&#8217;s they were living in a simulation &#8211; and the results were not so different than what would happen if you tried this on the streets in real life. With <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simulation_hypothesis\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simulation_hypothesis\">science telling us reality may be a simulation<\/a>, maybe we&#8217;re all just layers of bots in the ether&#8230;or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20Corinthians%203%3A12-18&amp;version=NCB\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=2%20Corinthians%203%3A12-18&amp;version=NCB\">destined for a higher reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aihq6jhdW-Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several companies are developing AI powered NPC&#8217;s for games &#8211; complete with behaviors and realtime voice synthesis. This YouTuber decided to try and tell the NPC&#8217;s they were living in a simulation &#8211; and the results were not so different than what would happen if you tried this on the streets in real life. With science telling us reality may be a simulation, maybe we&#8217;re all just layers of bots in the ether&#8230;or destined for a higher reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3io","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14581,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12672\/revisions\/14581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}