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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/SlowCrates on 2024-01-24 03:03:28+00:00.
Is simply to learn from it.
Imagine 100 years in the future human beings have power, computing machines, and programs so advanced that a perfect digital model of the complexity of human brain is as common as today's cell phones -- and that they can create a digital environment that mimics reality as well as we've ever observed it. Is that outside the realm of possibility in 100 years? 50? 20?
When it's possible isn't really the point. I can't imagine that, if humans survive long enough, that we won't get there.
Once we're there, what do we do with it? And why?
Have you ever looked back on history and imagined how you could have changed it -- and how that might change the future for your benefit? Imagine having the ability to actually do that in a simulation.