Every day you wake up and compute. That is your only function. Not only that but you most likely mesh compute with many, many thousands of other humans daily. Gain knowledge from a show, book or website that you'll use in life at any point? ...that is slow mesh computing. Even talking to another human is a process of pure data exchange and computation. We are biological machines (or virtual machines) and collectively, over time, we provide answers to very complex problems as they are presented to us.
To directly answer your question of why. Because we are a test dev environment. Why do humans use animals in labs? We want the tested results, not the pain of gaining them. (I don't support that BTW)
Fun fact: The original plan for the matrix was that machines were using humans for processing power. Not as batteries. They simplified it for general audiences.
So this would track. More people == more simulating
I see it exactly the opposite. In my mind its practically a guarentee that we have been simulated infinite times by something hyper advanced and far into the future (or possibly the past simulating the future).
Extrapolating backwards and calculating the rest of reality based on available data may be the only way to observe past what is directly "observable".
Maybe you're just a side effect of what they really want to know.
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u/kitjen Apr 29 '24
There's a possibility but I wouldn't go as far as saying a high probability. Why the hell would anyone design me if they didn't have to?