(no, you cant borrow the microscope. And even if you could you'd have to ask iC.)
"Ok, let's figure this out then" breathes deeply "Alright, I can do this, I'm good at this kind of thing."
I start to smooth an area to draw in the sand, then bend down and start making a flowcart and some bayesan math complementing what I say:
"So. First lets review the facts, while narowing down a serch.
First of, cognito ergo sum, or atleast I appear to have some kind of subjective experience and a bunch of mamories and mental skills.
There are of my head 3 possible explanations for this in a tegmarkian multiverse, wich appears to be my a priori asumption.
1) This is an actual, raw, independant reality.
2) I'm a boltsman brain.
3) it is some kind of simulation
1 is what the universe I remember coming from is most likely to be. However, the laws of that universe are incompatible with my recent experience of telportationa and the folowing percived landscape.
2 is a fair bit more likely than before, but still at the standard basline, we might return to this if number 3 dosn't work.
3 is what I'm leaning toward curently, so lets expand this node.
Now, if this is a simulation, we have to figure out what it is running on.
These recent events give the impresion of not being very well thoguth out, but in the other hand I have rich memories of a complex life and seem to make evolutionary sense, and in general seem much more well thoguht out.
I have throguht tests ruled out almost completly this simulation is runigh on my own brain, such as lucid dream or halucination.
A posthuman superintelegence from after the point of my memory would not be this clumsy, and I cant imagine an utility function that would make this a reasonable coarse of action.
An ailien intelegence writing something fiction-equivelent wouldd either be again smart enought to make a less clumsy transition, or else to stupid to design me.
Althou there are a few other posibilities, I find the most likely hypotesis being that I'm in a work of fiction by a human and based of an actual person (that can mostly be said to b e me, then) in that humans universe, and it seems probable that this human is reaonably close in time and culture to what i remember growing up in.
So, what kinds of works of fiction being writen might it be? Well, one main limiting factor is that I'm a fairly random person that most wouldnt write abaut, so it is probably an amature work pherhaps by someone I know. Most peaple I know are throught the internet, and even mor so if filtering by writing fiction. Writen pieices on the internet with these descriptions are usualy some kind of cumunity/forum fiction, or variants of roleplaying games. Roleplaying games are the most numerus and thus statisticaly this is most likely one. This is suported by there being several other persons having been teleported in that might presumably be other PCs.
The vast mayority of my interet roleplaying is done on the bay 12 games forum.
Multiplying all these factors give... 68... Rounding to a 70% probability I'm a fictional character inside a roleplaying game on the bay12 games forums.
...crap.
So, lets test this:" I shout: "SO WHICH OF YOU PEOPLE VISIT THE BAY 12 GAMES FORUM ON THE INTERNET?"
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