https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-we-live-in-a-simulation/

Ever since the philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in the Philosophical Quarterly that the universe and everything in it might be a simulation, there has been intense public speculation and debate about the nature of reality.

Yet there have been skeptics. Physicist Frank Wilczek has argued that there’s too much wasted complexity in our universe for it to be simulated. Building complexity requires energy and time.

To understand if we live in a simulation we need to start by looking at the fact that we already have computers running all kinds of simulations for lower level “intelligences” or algorithms.

All computing hardware leaves an artifact of its existence within the world of the simulation it is running. This artifact is the processor speed.
No matter how complete the simulation is, the processor speed would intervene in the operations of the simulation.

If we live in a simulation, then our universe should also have such an artifact. We can now begin to articulate some properties of this artifact that would help us in our search for such an artifact in our universe.
The artifact presents itself in the simulated world as an upper limit.

Now that we have some defining features of the artifact, of course it becomes clear what the artifact manifests itself as within our universe. The artifact is manifested as the speed of light.
This maximum speed is the speed of light. We don’t know what hardware is running the simulation of our universe or what properties it has, but one thing we can say now is that the memory container size for the variable space would be about 300,000 kilometers if the processor performed one operation per second.

We can see now that the speed of light meets all the criteria of a hardware artifact identified in our observation of our own computer builds. It remains the same irrespective of observer (simulated) speed, it is observed as a maximum limit, it is unexplainable by the physics of the universe, and it is absolute. The speed of light is a hardware artifact showing we live in a simulated universe.

Consciousness is an integrated (combining five senses) subjective interface between the self and the rest of the universe. The only reasonable explanation for its existence is that it is there to be an “experience”.

So here we are generating this product called consciousness that we apparently don’t have a use for, that is an experience and hence must serve as an experience. The only logical next step is to surmise that this product serves someone else.

Brandolini’s law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease of creating it in the first place.

The law states: “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marslewis_brandolinislaw-propagandawars-medialies-activity-7320036000473255936-LQVG

This is why every time you kill a lie, it feels like nothing changed. It’s why no matter how many facts you post, how many sources you cite, how many receipts you show—the swarm just keeps coming. Because while you’re out in the open doing surgery, the machine is behind the curtain spraying aerosol deceit into every vent.

The lie takes ten seconds. The truth takes ten paragraphs. And by the time you’ve written the tenth, the people you’re trying to reach have already scrolled past.

Every viral deception—the fake quote, the rigged video, the synthetic outrage—takes almost nothing to create. And once it’s out there, you’re not just correcting a fact—you’re prying it out of someone’s identity. Because people don’t adopt lies just for information. They adopt them for belonging. The lie becomes part of who they are, and your correction becomes an attack.

And still—you must correct it. Still, you must fight.

Because even if truth doesn’t spread as fast, it roots deeper. Even if it doesn’t go viral, it endures. And eventually, it makes people bulletproof to the next wave of narrative sewage.

You’re not here to win a one-day war. You’re here to outlast a never-ending invasion.

The lies are roaches. You kill one, and a hundred more scramble behind the drywall.The lies are Hydra heads. You cut one off, and two grow back. But you keep swinging anyway.

Because this isn’t about instant wins. It’s about making the cost of lying higher. It’s about being the resistance that doesn’t fold. You don’t fight because it’s easy. You fight because it’s right.

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about it”
William Lawrence Bragg