{"id":138511,"date":"2026-08-20T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=138511"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:48:11","slug":"xstrangehistory-owengregorian-theistic-simulation-theory-was-the-topic-of-an-acquaintances-doctoral-thesis-20-years-ago-the-short-upshot-of-his-work-was-the-following-if-we-were-in-a-simulati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=138511","title":{"rendered":"@XStrangeHistory @OwenGregorian Theistic simulation theory was the topic of an acquaintance&#8217;s doctoral thesis 20+ years ago \n\nThe short upshot of his work was the following \n\nIf we were in a simulation, we could not know &#8211; as we could have just been magically proofed into simulated existence seconds ago with a"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">@XStrangeHistory @OwenGregorian Theistic simulation theory was the topic of an acquaintance&#8217;s doctoral thesis 20+ years ago <\/p>\n<p>The short upshot of his work was the following <\/p>\n<p>If we were in a simulation, we could not know &#8211; as we could have just been magically proofed into simulated existence seconds ago with a<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2090540355817025666\">Aug 20, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>August 20, 2026 at 04:43PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@XStrangeHistory @OwenGregorian Theistic simulation theory was the topic of an acquaintance&#8217;s doctoral thesis 20+ years ago The short upshot of his work was the following If we were in a simulation, we could not know &#8211; as we could have just been magically proofed into simulated existence seconds ago with a &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers) &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=138511\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">@XStrangeHistory @OwenGregorian Theistic simulation theory was the topic of an acquaintance&#8217;s doctoral thesis 20+ years ago <\/p>\n<p>The short upshot of his work was the following <\/p>\n<p>If we were in a simulation, we could not know &#8211; as we could have just been magically proofed into simulated existence seconds ago with a<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-138511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138512,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138511\/revisions\/138512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138511"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=138511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}