Your friend is a surprising mix of naively credulous and well-read on such topics. My assumption was marked cards to an unobtrusive camera, but possibly a force, and just having 52 poems ready so you could show him the right one.
But even without that expectation, if I had ZERO clue how you could do such a thing, “this is a simulation” is not updated at all on this (note: I already give it more than epsilon probability, perhaps 1-2% for an intentional/mutable simulation state). There’s SO MANY unexplained experiences that turn out to have simpler explanations.
Your friend is a surprising mix of naively credulous and well-read on such topics. My assumption was marked cards to an unobtrusive camera, but possibly a force, and just having 52 poems ready so you could show him the right one.
But even without that expectation, if I had ZERO clue how you could do such a thing, “this is a simulation” is not updated at all on this (note: I already give it more than epsilon probability, perhaps 1-2% for an intentional/mutable simulation state). There’s SO MANY unexplained experiences that turn out to have simpler explanations.