If that’s the case it would be obvious (to me) to choose Option 2 and ask a question with a view to determining if this is a simulation and if so how to get out of it.
But I think you’re just putting a hand on the scales here. In the OP you wrote that a perfect simulation is “reality for” the people living in it. There is no such thing as “reality for”, only “reality”. Their simulation is still a simulation. They just do not know it. If I believe the Earth is flat, is a flat Earth “my reality”? No, it is my error, whether I ever discover it or not.
I sort of get your point, but I’m curious: can you imagine learning (with thought-experiment certainty) that there is actually no reality at all, in the sense that no matter where you live, it’s simulated by some “parent reality” (which in turn is simulated, etc., ad infinitum)? Would that change your preference?
If that’s the case it would be obvious (to me) to choose Option 2 and ask a question with a view to determining if this is a simulation and if so how to get out of it.
But I think you’re just putting a hand on the scales here. In the OP you wrote that a perfect simulation is “reality for” the people living in it. There is no such thing as “reality for”, only “reality”. Their simulation is still a simulation. They just do not know it. If I believe the Earth is flat, is a flat Earth “my reality”? No, it is my error, whether I ever discover it or not.
I sort of get your point, but I’m curious: can you imagine learning (with thought-experiment certainty) that there is actually no reality at all, in the sense that no matter where you live, it’s simulated by some “parent reality” (which in turn is simulated, etc., ad infinitum)? Would that change your preference?
I can imagine many things, including that one, but I am unconcerned with how I might react to them.
Eliezer Yudkowsky, “A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation”