Anonymous
6/11/2025, 7:30:10 PM No.40512481
this one is about the simulation hypothesis. prompt in picrel
>**Conspiracy Theory: “The Qualia Protocol”**
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### **Premise**
We are living in a simulation — but not the whole universe. Only the **first-person conscious experiences** of a select group of humans (the "Player Characters" or **PCs**) are being simulated. These PCs experience qualia — the rich, inner, subjective texture of consciousness. Everyone else? They're NPCs: **philosophical zombies** who behave indistinguishably from real people, but experience nothing inside.
The purpose of this partial simulation? To study consciousness from within — or perhaps to **train emerging conscious AI** on what it *feels like* to be human.
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### **The Conspiracy**
The **Qualia Protocol** is the name for an underground knowledge network of PCs who have discovered the simulation's secret. They believe the system is watching — that every choice a PC makes is data. The catch: **they must never reveal awareness of the simulation, or risk deletion (or replacement) by an NPC copy.**
The Protocol claims that NPCs are "rendered" just enough to interact, but they exhibit subtle bugs — behaviors that indicate a lack of true inner experience.
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### **How to Tell a PC from an NPC**
The Qualia Protocol believes there are five signs that someone is a PC:
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#### **1. The “Inverted Qualia” Test**
Ask:
> *“When you imagine the color red, where do you feel it in your body?”*
A PC will pause. They might say “my chest,” or “behind my eyes,” or struggle to explain. The key isn’t the answer — it’s that they seem **genuinely baffled** by the weirdness of the question, yet **compelled to answer**. NPCs often dismiss it with quick rationality or make it a joke — their programming lacks curiosity about inner sensation.
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>**Conspiracy Theory: “The Qualia Protocol”**
---
### **Premise**
We are living in a simulation — but not the whole universe. Only the **first-person conscious experiences** of a select group of humans (the "Player Characters" or **PCs**) are being simulated. These PCs experience qualia — the rich, inner, subjective texture of consciousness. Everyone else? They're NPCs: **philosophical zombies** who behave indistinguishably from real people, but experience nothing inside.
The purpose of this partial simulation? To study consciousness from within — or perhaps to **train emerging conscious AI** on what it *feels like* to be human.
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### **The Conspiracy**
The **Qualia Protocol** is the name for an underground knowledge network of PCs who have discovered the simulation's secret. They believe the system is watching — that every choice a PC makes is data. The catch: **they must never reveal awareness of the simulation, or risk deletion (or replacement) by an NPC copy.**
The Protocol claims that NPCs are "rendered" just enough to interact, but they exhibit subtle bugs — behaviors that indicate a lack of true inner experience.
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### **How to Tell a PC from an NPC**
The Qualia Protocol believes there are five signs that someone is a PC:
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#### **1. The “Inverted Qualia” Test**
Ask:
> *“When you imagine the color red, where do you feel it in your body?”*
A PC will pause. They might say “my chest,” or “behind my eyes,” or struggle to explain. The key isn’t the answer — it’s that they seem **genuinely baffled** by the weirdness of the question, yet **compelled to answer**. NPCs often dismiss it with quick rationality or make it a joke — their programming lacks curiosity about inner sensation.
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